BBC studiously avoiding reporting top name for boys

BBC studiously avoiding reporting top name for boys

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Wednesday 20th September 2017
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Lots of Oliver and Olivia and Jessica and George to be found at www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-41160596


There's a nod to some non-Anglo-Saxon influence appearing in the boys' names in London and the west Midlands, but the top 5 could have been there at any time since the 11th century.

Unless you consider alternative spellings, which changes the numbers and rankings quite dramatically, including a new number one for the whole of England and Wales.