Give me an E for Emma: Quebec’s favourite baby names are out again – Montreal
Emma and Noah are once again Quebec parents’ favourite baby names.
The province released its annual gendered most popular baby names list on Tuesday, and this year’s list for 2022 shows that Quebecers have loved the same names for a couple of years now.
The top 15 most popular names for baby girls are, in order from 1-15: Emma, Olivia, Charlotte, Charlie, Florence, Alice, Lea, Livia, Rose, Juliette, Romy, Clara, Beatrice, Zoe and Mia.
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The top 15 boy names are, in the same order: Noah, William, Liam, Thomas, Leo, Edouard, Jacob, Arthur, Louis, Nathan, Emile, Charles, Felix, Theo, and Logan.
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Statistics Canada has introduced a searchable baby name database , allowing expectant parents to browse names for their newest addition to the family, as well as compare how each name stacks up in terms of popularity.
It not only lists the top 20 most popular names for each sex over the course of any given year, but shows how popularity for each name has waxed and waned over time.
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The top baby names in Canada in 2022 for both sexes were Olivia and Noah.
According to Psychology Today , parents often choose their baby’s names based on family, religious, ethnic and faddish influences. Often, parents will even choose names that signal certain desired characteristics about their children, including physical stature.
–with files from Michelle Butterfield and Sarah Do Couto , Global News.
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