The celebrity effect on baby names

17 December 2006

KEIRA Slumming it around the 300 mark of the list of the most popular names back in 2001, the influence of Knightley has seen Keira rise to the top 30.

JADE A mainstay of the top 20 most popular names for a decade, but post-Big Brother’s Goody and the name plummeted. Now it doesn’t even scrape the top 100.

SIENNA Back at the turn of the millennium Sienna barely registered in the top 500. Then came Miller. From 442 to 69 in two years.

SCARLETT Dawdling around the 150 mark for years, 2003’s Lost in Translation starring Ms Johansson, helped propel it to number 47.

JORDAN Katie Price took ownership and its popularity — it was in the top 100 list for four years — nose-dived to 600. Now it isn’t even in the top 1,000.

Source: www.babyplanners.co.uk