How close are we with our favourite names to our neighbours?
What names could inspire us from the Australian top 100 which don’t feature in our own.
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New Zealand & Australia top names for girls and boys are the same
Charlotte & Oliver
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Girls top 10
NZ & Aus
Charlotte #1, Olivia #2 Emily #4 & Amelia #6.
share also; Sophie, Sophia/Sofia * & Ruby
NZ only; Isla (vs #17), Ella (vs #13) and Harper (vs #27)
Aus only; Ava (vs #12), Mia (vs #14) and Chloe (vs #15)
Boys top 10
NZ & Aus share Oliver as #1
Both share; Jack, James, William, Noah and Lucas
NZ only; Mason (vs #13), Liam (vs #14), Benjamin (vs #20) and Jacob (vs #18)
Aus only; Jackson (vs #21)/Jaxon* , Thomas (vs #18), Ethan (vs #11) and Cooper (vs#19)
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Feature in Australian top 100 only
Girls
Chelsea
Audrey
Alyssa
Indiana (NZ has Indie)
Maya
Lola
Eliza
Eloise
Charlie
Claire
Lara
Victoria
Amelie
Penelope
Lillian
Jade
Eve
Mikayla
Heidi
Daisy
Elsie
Skye
Indigo
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Boys
Nate (NZ has Nathaniel & Nathan)
Nicholas
Chase
Mitchell
Hayden
Owen
Kai
Toby
Bailey
Christian
Jesse
Darcy
Hamish
Dominic
Jett
Seth
Parker
Anthony
Jonathan
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Perhaps NZ is a little ahead of the Australia trends considering names that left last year (2013) Ones in italic still feature in 2014 in Australian top 100
Boys
Dominic, Tyson, Gabriel, Christian, Isaiah,
Jonathan, Kingston, Declan, Sam, Maxwell,
Joel, Jesse & Andrew.
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Girls
Indi, Mikayla, Faith, Claire,
Esther, Taylor, Jade, Lola,
Charlie, Alyssa & Victoria
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Perhaps Australians should consider one of these from the NZ top 100;
Freya, Florence, Thea, Aurora or Olive
Vincent, Asher, Grayson, Ezra, Theo or Nixon
* the Australian statistics combine names with same pronounciation but different spelling as one ie Sophia/Sofia is one name but in New Zealand they would be counted seperately.
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