New Top Baby Names UK Announced!

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The top baby names England and Wales for 2020 are here! The number one pair, Olivia and Oliver, reign over the popular baby names UK for a fifth year running, but there are some surprise entrants to the Top 10. Read the biggest headlines and the full Top 100 — and if that’s not enough, we’ve got the new Top 1000 too.

Name of the week: Rita

Retro Rita is in style limbo, but we’re pipping it for a comeback. It’s already trending upwards in the UK, and in the Top 100 baby names in Portugal and Poland.

As a diminutive of Margarita, it’s one of our inspirational Hispanic Heritage Names on the blog this week. It also comes under the style of nickname names — read more about them in our Ultimate Guide to Nicknames.

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Coming up this week

This week on Nameberry, look out for advice on naming a third son (should they stick with the same initial, or branch out?), a brand new baby name help column, and character names from a sci-fi and fantasy pioneer.