Top Girls & Boys Names in British Columbia

How common is your name? Search British Columbia records from 1900 to the present using the Vancouver Sun's searchable database of boys' and girls' names.

All-time Rankings

Rank	Name	Occurrences
1	Robert	39444
2	David	35649
3	John	35099
4	Michael	33361
5	James	30661
6	William	29123
7	Richard	18103
8	Christopher	17935
9	Daniel	15538
10	Jennifer	14822
11	Mary	14236
12	Matthew	13545
13	Kenneth	13022
14	Ryan	12896
15	Donald	12347
16	Kevin	11739
17	Margaret	11626
18	Thomas	11588
19	Jason	11324
20	Brian	11320
21	Patricia	11261
22	Sarah	10433
23	Andrew	10424
24	Linda	10202
25	Ronald	9931

Data is from the B.C. Vital Statistics Agency. Additional research on twentieth century
names by P.A. Dunae, T. Blogg and A. Speed of Malaspina University College. Special
thanks to Ryan Jabs of the Public Affairs Bureau/Ministry of Health.

From the Vancouver Sun

The Most Popular Boy and Girl's Names for Babies

Being a Canadian baby and children's photographer allows me to get to know my little customers by name. While I hear the classic names, John and Michael for boys, Katherine and Elizabeth for girls, I also hear some very creative names too! I've had the seasons represented with Autumn and Summer, the botanticals with Lily and Sage, and of course, lots of Biblical names.

Some "old" names are popular again too, Emma and Sarah were in the top 10 most popular names for girls in 1880 and in 2005! Popular boys names, however, do not change as much over the years. The popular boys names from the late 19th Century remained fairly constant until about 1980s. Check it out yourself at the Baby Centre - they have the largest Baby Names List. Their 2005 list reflects name data from more than 320,000 BabyCenter members.

I do have to share one of the cutest comments I've heard regarding names, a little girl told me her name is Sierra, and that she is named after her grandfather's truck!