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 the 2022 rankings show that Quebecers have loved the same few names for a couple of years now.
Parents will often choose their baby’s name based on family, religious, ethnic and faddish influences, according to psychologists.
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.
Most of these names were on the same list the year before.
Statistics Canada has also introduced a searchable baby name database, allowing expectant parents to browse names for the newest addition to their 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 the country in 2022 were Olivia and Noah.
According to Psychology Today’s Gregg R. Murray Ph.D., parents often choose their baby’s name 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.
You can see the full 2022 rankings of Quebec’s top 100 baby names here.
–with files from Michelle Butterfield and Sarah Do Couto, Global News.
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