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For years the name Charlotte has been crowned the most popular baby girl name not only in NSW, but across Australia – but her reign has come to an end, with not one but two new baby girl names taking her spot on the throne.

The latest data for NSW births in 2023 has revealed that Isla and Amelia were the most popular baby girl names over the past 12 months, followed by Olivia, Mia, and then Charlotte coming in at number five. The top 10 is rounded out by Ava, Lily, Evelyn and Sophie and Matilda tied in ninth place.

NSW most popular baby names 2023

NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages received 383 registrations of babies named Isla and Amelia respectively last year. Almost 60,000 births were registered in NSW in 2023.

Oliver remained the most popular boy’s name for the 10th consecutive year, with Noah once again in second place for the fifth year in a row.

The popular name trend continued in other Australian states, with Queensland also reporting Isla and Oliver as the top baby names of 2023.

According to the experts, baby names including Lavender, Clover, Harold, Rafe and Willa are set to become more popular in 2024.

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Did you have a baby in 2023? What name did you give them? Let us know in the comments below.

 

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  • I had a grand daughter born on New Years Day and her name is Ivy

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  • All lovely names on each list.

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  • Mia has certainly been around for quite a while now.

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  • Popular names are lovely, but it’s hard when in a class there are 3 or 4 kids with the same name. Last year my son’s kinder room had 3 boys named Noah, 3 girls named Ava, 2 boys and a girl named Charlie. every time he spoke about a particular one he would use their surname initial after their name so I knew who he was talking about.

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  • I love all of these names. I have a great-grandson named Henry and it really suits him.

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  • The names on this list are beautiful. Better then some of the strange ones around now adays.

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  • I actually love all these top names but I chose something that wasn’t too common for all of mine. Nothing crazy or too out there but just not names you hear everyday so there wasn’t a classfull of kids with their name.

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  • First list my kids weren’t on !! How interesting

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  • I’m actually glad my kids’ names aren’t on these lists. They’re not crazy, but not too common either.

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  • Yes there’s a few in our mother’s group. My gorgeous Fletcher stays just the right amount of popular!

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  • All beautiful names. I know a couple of people having babies this year so it will be interesting to see what they name their baby.

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  • They’re all gorgeous names! I like them all!

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  • We never really turned to baby name lists to get inspiration to name my kids.


    • We just enjoyed bouncing names back and forth and then decided on the big day when we looked at each child.



      • Yes that’s a good way to do it. We took a bit longer with our eldest and named her 3 days after birth :)

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  • I’m about to have my 3rd boy and have always loved Oliver, always been so popular.

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  • Lots of lovely, normal names there.

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  • Some lovely names on the lists.

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  • Love the name Isla, not surprised it’s so popular. And yay to some different names predicted this year, Lavender is very cute. My 2023 little babes name is Xander.

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  • Jessie is my babie girls name 2023

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  • I love Amelia. It is one of my daughter’s middle names.

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  • Beautiful names. A few surprises in there too. I love it when these lists come out.

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