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Amelia and Muhammad are the most popular baby names in the West Midlands
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/baby-names-midlands

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Amelia and Muhammad are the most popular baby names in the West Midlands

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/baby-names-midlands
• Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
• Created: 2016-09-07T11:52:43.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-09-07T11:58:01.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-07-13T08:46:40.606Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: fun, names, ons, westmidlands
• Homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-birmingham-37010594?ns_linkname=57c95418e4b090064de88f0a%26Amelia%20and%20Muhammad%20are%20the%20most%20popular%20baby%20names%20in%20the%20West%20Midlands%26&ns_fee=0#post_57c95418e4b090064de88f0a
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Amelia and Muhammad are the most popular baby names in the West Midlands

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On September 2 2016 the ONS [released statistics on ranks and counts for baby names in England and Wales](http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/babynamesenglandandwales/2015/relateddata).

As part of the Local Live stream for Birmingham and the Black Country, Dan Wainwright wrote a brief update focusing on [the most popular names in the West Midlands](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-birmingham-37010594?ns_linkname=57c95418e4b090064de88f0a%26Amelia%20and%20Muhammad%20are%20the%20most%20popular%20baby%20names%20in%20the%20West%20Midlands%26&ns_fee=0#post_57c95418e4b090064de88f0a)

## Data

* Original source: Office for National Statistics: [All data related to Baby names in England and Wales: 2015](http://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/bulletins/babynamesenglandandwales/2015/relateddata)

* CSV: [Top 10 boys names in the Midlands 2015](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/baby-names-midlands/blob/master/boynames.csv)

* CSV: [Top 10 girls names in the Midlands 2015](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/baby-names-midlands/blob/master/girlsnames.csv)