Top 25 names for Canada in 2002

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Alberta, Canada is home of the wild rose, the bighorn sheep and the bull trout. All that, and these top 25 baby names for boys and girls...

Girls

1. Emily
2. Emma
3. Madison
4. Sarah
5. Hannah
6. Sydney
7. Megan
8. Ashley
9. Taylor
10. Paige
11. Samantha
12. Olivia
13. Jessica
14. Hailey
15. Grace
16. Mackenzie
17. Kaitlyn
18. Abigail
19. Isabella
20. Jenna
21. Chloe
22. Alyssa
23. Lauren
24. Julia
25. Brooklyn

Boys

1. Ethan
2. Joshua
3. Matthew
4. Jacob
5. Ryan
6. Logan
7. Nicholas
8. Tyler
9. Dylan
10. Connor
11. Daniel
12. Alexander
13. Zachary
14. William
15. Kyle
16. Liam
17. Noah
18. Nathan
19. Benjamin
20. Cole
21. Brandon
22. Austin
23. Michael
24. Aidan
25. Justin

On the entire list, there were 33 Autumns, two Summers, two Springs, one Winter, a Wynter, a Winter-Ivy and a single Winter-Rose. Alberta's geography and weather were also reflected in the names parents gave their babies in 2002: There were six boys named Rocky, one Rockey, one Echo, one Sky, one Star, five Meadows, two Rivers, one Timber, two girls named Sunny, two Sunshines, two boys and three girls named Storm, one Stormy... and a Cool. There were six Shanias, five Britneys, three Avrils, two Celines, 9 Chads, four Jaggers, a lone Elvis, but two babies named Presley.

The list of most popular girl and boy names was compiled from the Registration of Live Birth forms completed by parents and processed by the the Government of Alberta.

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