The most popular baby names around the world

One list across the 9 birth records that carry a full count of births for the year and reach 2020: the United States, Canada, England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, France, Puerto Rico and Chile. A name’s figure is the average of its share in each record, on that record’s own basis, with an absent name counting as zero there.

This is not a count of babies. It says how strongly a name runs across these places, so a name that is big everywhere beats one that is huge in a single country. New South Wales publishes only a top 100, South Australia and Montevideo stop years earlier, Spain and Brazil count people of every age and Mexico City and Argentina count the parts of compound names rather than babies, so they stay off the average and appear on the board below. Where a registry counts each spelling separately, its leading spelling stands for the name across records (Ireland’s Rían stands for Rian); the other spellings keep their own rows and their own counts, and are never added together.

A name earns a dot in a column when it is in that record’s latest top 100. Solid means a top-20 name there, fading to a ring for a name that is present but rare.

In the top 50 of one record and on no other record’s published list: we look through the top 300 where a record publishes that deep, and only the top 100 where that is all it publishes.

In the latest top 100 of at least one English-speaking record and at least one Spanish- or Portuguese-speaking record, ordered by how high they sit on both sides.