With the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations just around the corner, the team at For Your Little One have decided to take a look at the most popular girls and boys names during previous Jubilee celebrated years.
Using official data from the Office For National Statistics, we found the top 5 most popular boys and girls names in England and Wales during the years of: the Queen’s Jubilee, the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, the Queen’s Golden Jubilee and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
1952 (1954): The Queen’s Jubilee
| Boys | 1. | DAVID | Girls | 1. | SUSAN | |
| 2. | JOHN | 2. | LINDA | |||
| 3. | STEPHEN | 3. | CHRISTINE | |||
| 4. | MICHAEL | 4. | MARGARET | |||
| 5. | PETER | 5. | JANET |
1977 (1974): The Queen’s Silver Jubilee
| Boys | 1. | PAUL | Girls | 1. | SARAH | |
| 2. | MARK | 2. | CLAIRE | |||
| 3. | DAVID | 3. | NICOLA | |||
| 4. | ANDREW | 4. | EMMA | |||
| 5. | RICHARD | 5. | LISA |
2002: The Queen’s Golden Jubilee
| Boys | 1. | JACK | Girls | 1. | CHLOE | |
| 2. | JOSHUA | 2. | EMILY | |||
| 3. | THOMAS | 3. | JESSICA | |||
| 4. | JAMES | 4. | ELLIE | |||
| 5. | DANIEL | 5. | SOPHIE |
2012: The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
| Boys | 1. | HARRY | Girls | 1. | AMELIA | |
| 2. | OLIVER | 2. | OLIVIA | |||
| 3. | JACK | 3. | JESSICA | |||
| 4. | CHARLIE | 4. | EMILY | |||
| 5. | JACOB | 5. | LILY |
