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The Scottish Abstract of Statistics No 26,1998
Table 1B4 The 10 most frequent boys and girls names, 1997 and selected years

Rank

1997

Rank in selected earlier years

Number of
occurrences

Percent of
total

1858

1935

1958

1976

1990
Boys
Total births  

30,516

            
 
Ryan

1

793

2.6

-

-

-

55

15
Andrew

2

759

2.5

9

9

13

5

5
Jack

3

758

2.5

-

65

95

-

61
Ross

4

700

2.5

-

-

72

25

9
James

5

636

2.3

2

2

2

4

7
Connor

6

588

2.1

-

-

-

-

97
Scott

7

583

1.9

-

-

70

7

4
Lewis

8

566

1.9

-

69

-

-

39
David

9

560

1.8

7

8

4

1

1
Michael

10

556

1.8

-

28

12

16

6
 
Girls
Total births  

28,924

            
 
Emma

1

752

2.6

-

-

-

28

1
Rebecca

2

711

2.5

-

-

-

97

14
Chloe

3

700

2.4

-

-

-

-

52
Megan

4

641

2.2

-

-

-

-

27
Lauren

5

630

2.2

-

-

-

-

10
Amy

6

623

2.2

-

-

-

-

16
Shannon

7

551

1.9

-

-

-

-

-
Caitlin

8

545

1.9

-

-

-

-

88
Rachel

9

518

1.8

-

-

-

80

13
Hannah

10

480

1.7

44

60

-

-

28

Source: General Register Office (Scotland)
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