Scotland's top baby names in 2018

Published 18th Dec 2018

Olivia and Jack remain the most popular baby names in Scotland in 2018 - Olivia is in its third year at the top of the chart for girls while Jack has been the number one choice for boys for eleven years now.

Emily remained the second most popular name for girls. Isla, Sophie and Amelia remained third, fourth and fifth.

Ella rose from eighth to sixth, Ava remained seventh, Aria was up one place at ninth, Jessica fell four places to tenth and Sophia was up four places at twelfth.

Charlotte dropped out of the top 10 (down two places to eleventh).;

The joint second most popular names for boys were Oliver (second in 2017) and James (up from third). Rory climbed eight places to get into the top ten in ninth place

while Harry dropped out of it (falling from tenth to twelfth).

The biggest climbers within the Top 50 were:

  • Georgia (up thirteen places to 24th)
  • Rosie (up thirteen places to 27th)
  • Jaxon (up ten places to joint 33rd).

Particularly fast-rising entrants to the Top Fifties were:

  • Mila (up sixteen places to 36th)
  • Ivy (up twenty places to joint 38th)
  • Hunter (up 38 places to 30th)
  • Arthur (up 43 places to 46th)
  • Luca (up 55 places to joint 47th)
  • Robert (up 17 places to 50th).

You can find the full table of baby names for 2018 here.