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Is there a place to see an html version for tablet and phone users? I love seeing top lists for everywhere :).
Thorfinn, amazing! I love that the people of Orkney would keep up their Norse heritage like that! Þorfinnur is still used in Iceland - the fact that it survived in the Orkney Islands has put a huge grin on my face! 
It’s from [name_m]Thor[/name_m] (the god) and [name_u]Finn[/name_u] (person from Finland).
I was impressed too! I’ve always thought Norse names were strikingly regal sounding and Thorfinn is certainly that, and I love the fact this must have been passed down for centuries!
Is there not a way of viewing PDFs on tablets/phones? Here’s the top 20 anyway…
1 [name_m]Jack[/name_m], [name_f]Sophie[/name_f]
2 [name_u]James[/name_u], [name_f]Olivia[/name_f]
3 [name_m]Lewis[/name_m], [name_f]Emily[/name_f]
4 [name_m]Oliver[/name_m], [name_f]Isla[/name_f]
5 [name_m]Daniel[/name_m], [name_f]Lucy[/name_f]
6 [name_u]Logan[/name_u], [name_f]Ava[/name_f]
7 [name_m]Alexander[/name_m], [name_f]Jessica[/name_f]
8 [name_m]Lucas[/name_m], [name_f]Ella[/name_f]
9 [name_m]Harry[/name_m], [name_f]Amelia[/name_f]
10 [name_u]Charlie[/name_u], [name_f]Millie[/name_f]
11 [name_u]Mason[/name_u], [name_f]Lily[/name_f]
12 [name_m]Ethan[/name_m], [name_f]Chloe[/name_f]
13 [name_u]Riley[/name_u], [name_f]Eva[/name_f]
14 [name_u]Noah[/name_u], [name_f]Emma[/name_f]
15 [name_u]Alfie[/name_u], [name_f]Sophia[/name_f]
16 [name_m]Harris[/name_m], [name_f]Ellie[/name_f]
17 [name_u]Finlay[/name_u], [name_f]Mia[/name_f]
18 [name_u]Max[/name_u], [name_f]Erin[/name_f]
19 [name_m]Thomas[/name_m], [name_f]Freya[/name_f]
20 [name_m]Jacob[/name_m], [name_f]Grace[/name_f]
I can download but not just view. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing, [name_f]Olivia[/name_f]! I’ve always loved how detailed the Scottish government’s name stats are. (I was looking up the popularity of the names of some famous Scots/people with Scottish ancestry, don’t ask. 
) [name_f]Helen[/name_f] [name_u]Mirren[/name_u]'s my favourite actress so I’d love to meet someone named [name_u]Mirren[/name_u], but surprised it’d rank at all as a given name. [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] is a LOT lower than in the States even though I’ve always thought of it as rather British (well, totally international but seems like a name that’d be used a lot in the UK, haha). I wonder if it has anything to do with the [name_f]Queen[/name_f]?
I’m curious if the referendum/its results will have any impact on naming- more or less use of the names of fighters and heroes of Scottish independence?
Oh my gosh [name_f]Helen[/name_f] [name_u]Mirren[/name_u] is amazing. She’s a national treasure, practically haha. You should totally watch Prime Suspect - the 90s BBC original version - if you haven’t it’s literally my favourite thing ever and I don’t even like crime-drama! (Haha, sorry, I’m a [name_f]Helen[/name_f] [name_u]Mirren[/name_u] fan)
I like [name_u]Mirren[/name_u] a lot too but if anything, I feel it’s too tied to her!
As for [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f], it was very very very common 100+ years ago, but I think it’s diminutives have just became much more fashionable; [name_f]Lizzie[/name_f], [name_f]Bess[/name_f], [name_f]Libby[/name_f], [name_f]Betsy[/name_f], [name_f]Beth[/name_f], [name_f]Elspeth[/name_f], [name_f]Eliza[/name_f] and even rare forms like [name_f]Lizbet[/name_f], [name_f]Lilibeth[/name_f], [name_f]Betsan[/name_f] etc. are far more common if you added the stats together, and loads of them are even unheard over the pond.
If you look at trends in the UK vs US, very classic, proper names like [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f]/[name_f]Catherine[/name_f]/[name_f]Lilian[/name_f] are generally far more trendy in the US right now, whereas the UK leans towards the more cutesy side of vintage, like [name_f]Elsie[/name_f]/[name_f]Millie[/name_f]/[name_u]Ruby[/name_u] which have been popular for a while. I think it’ll start to switch though, as American parents start using things like [name_f]Isla[/name_f]/[name_f]Ellie[/name_f]/[name_f]Sophie[/name_f] which have been popular in the UK for the past 10 years and the opposite has started to happen in the UK, as fuller forms like [name_f]Clementine[/name_f], [name_f]Florence[/name_f], [name_f]Matilda[/name_f] are very trendy right now.
Hmm… as for the referendum, good question - but I honestly have no idea how that’ll affect naming.
If [name_f]Scotland[/name_f] does choose to separate, I don’t think the cultural change will be significant enough to affect naming trends substantially, at least not for a long time. Any Scottish berries have any thoughts?
Ooh I love the UK ([name_f]England[/name_f], [name_f]Scotland[/name_f] and [name_m]Wales[/name_m]) Stats! I’ve never really followed Northern [name_f]Ireland[/name_f]'s stats that closely though 
From the top 100, I love:
[name_m]Lewis[/name_m], [name_m]Oliver[/name_m], [name_m]Daniel[/name_m], [name_u]Logan[/name_u], [name_u]Charlie[/name_u], [name_m]Harry[/name_m], [name_m]Ethan[/name_m], [name_u]Alfie[/name_u], [name_m]Thomas[/name_m], [name_m]Adam[/name_m], [name_u]Ryan[/name_u], [name_m]Matthew[/name_m], [name_m]Liam[/name_m], [name_m]Archie[/name_m], [name_u]Jamie[/name_u], [name_m]Callum[/name_m], [name_m]Joshua[/name_m], [name_m]Connor[/name_m], [name_m]William[/name_m], [name_m]Luke[/name_m], [name_m]Andrew[/name_m], [name_m]Samuel[/name_m], [name_m]Harrison[/name_m], [name_m]Joseph[/name_m], [name_u]Blake[/name_u], [name_m]Christopher[/name_m], [name_m]Jake[/name_m], [name_m]George[/name_m], [name_m]Sean[/name_m], & [name_m]Declan[/name_m]
[name_f]Sophie[/name_f], [name_f]Lucy[/name_f], [name_f]Amelia[/name_f], [name_f]Millie[/name_f], [name_f]Lily[/name_f], [name_f]Chloe[/name_f], [name_f]Eva[/name_f], [name_f]Emma[/name_f], [name_f]Freya[/name_f], [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f], [name_f]Poppy[/name_f], [name_f]Orla[/name_f], [name_f]Evie[/name_f], [name_f]Amy[/name_f], [name_f]Leah[/name_f], [name_f]Daisy[/name_f], [name_f]Maisie[/name_f], [name_f]Zoe[/name_f], [name_f]Georgia[/name_f], [name_f]Megan[/name_f], [name_f]Alice[/name_f], [name_f]Rosie[/name_f], [name_f]Zara[/name_f], [name_f]Lola[/name_f], [name_f]Imogen[/name_f], [name_f]Lauren[/name_f], [name_f]Scarlett[/name_f], [name_f]Elise[/name_f], [name_f]Rose[/name_f], [name_f]Amelie[/name_f], [name_f]Phoebe[/name_f], [name_f]Esme[/name_f] & [name_f]Ivy[/name_f].
I also find it interesting (and rather upsetting) that they indicate which names have had registered births who have since passed away. I’ve never known a country to do that before, but I’m not sure if I like knowing that or not - it’s almost as if, since that child passed away shortly after birth, their name does not count.
I actually had no idea they did that - very unusual, and I’m not entirely sure how I feel about it.
In one way I can see how it’s logistical - [name_f]Scotland[/name_f] has a fairly small population, and if parents are using the stats as an indication of what’s popular, the names of babies who’ve passed away are not relevant to them (in a country with fewer than 6 million you’re far from unlikely to run into another little [name_f]Ailsa[/name_f] or [name_f]Ellie[/name_f] at the park, hence why popularity may be more important to Scottish parents).
However, not including babies who passed away feels blatantly unjust in an official documentation of given names. If a child is given a name I feel it should be recorded as normal, regardless of how tragically short their life was.
I can understand it from a popularity POV, but I just feel as though, if I were the parent of a little [name_f]Sophie[/name_f], and my daughter didn’t live very long past her birth being registered, I would be rather annoyed to find out that my child was being singled out for having passed away, and thus being factored out of the naming data.
Oh my gosh, another [name_f]Helen[/name_f] [name_u]Mirren[/name_u] fan! 
Hardly anyone I know has heard of her, just those with a particular interest in literature/theatre/film, i.e. like 1% of the people I know, haha. I’ve only seen a handful of her films though. The Audience, the play with the [name_f]Queen[/name_f] and prime ministers, is probably my favourite. Yay for satellite broadcasts, I’d loved to have seen it live but plays from the UK rarely tour over here… [name_u]Mirren[/name_u] actually looks SO much like the [name_f]Queen[/name_f] and even has regnal initials 
In The [name_f]Queen[/name_f], I wasn’t always sure if it was [name_u]Mirren[/name_u] or old footage of the actual [name_f]Queen[/name_f]! I haven’t seen Prime Suspect, it’s not my usual type of show, but maybe I’ll check it out, thanks. I’d be more apt to use [name_f]Helen[/name_f] or [name_f]Helena[/name_f] if I wanted to honour her, though I doubt I’d do that. I love that we have the same middle name though- [name_f]Lydia[/name_f]. 
As for UK trends- hmm, I mostly just read Telegraph birth announcements where I see a LOT of classics like [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f], [name_f]Catherine[/name_f], etc. And a lot of [name_f]Florence[/name_f], [name_f]Matilda[/name_f], [name_f]Imogen[/name_f], names that I (perhaps wrongly) think feel “British.” And a fair number of nicknamey names, yes. Interesting predictions though- I guess we’ll just have to see!
@[name_u]Haley[/name_u]- I get what you mean about how it’d be kind of annoying, like your child who’d passed away didn’t count or didn’t matter. But I guess from a statistics point of view, the point of having that is giving people the best idea possible approximately how many little Xs they can expect to come across or how often they can expect to come across an X, and including children who passed away would skew that.