Naas maternity clinic is reporting baby boom in Co Kildare

A baby boom is being reported in Co Kildare according to the community maternity clinic at Naas.

Within the past month, staff at the maternity clinic in Naas Hospital are seeing a significant rise in pregnant women attending their services, in contrast to this time last year.

Meanwhile, the CSO has released statistics on baby names trends in 2018 with Emily retaining top spot for girls.  Grace, Emma, Sophie and Amelia, were the top five names of choice by parents for their newly arrived baby girls in 2018.

In Co Kildare Jack was the most popular name for boys  in 2018 while Grace was the most popular name for girls.

Jack has retained the top spot as the most popular baby boys name in 2018, a position it has held since 2007, except for 2016, when James was the most popular choice. Jack was followed by James, Noah, Conor and Daniel as the first five most popular names for boys in 2018..

Frankie, Freddie and Theodore were new entrants into the top 100 for boys in 2018. Theodore and Frankie were also the names rising most in popularity, increasing 63 and 31 places respectively.

There were four new entrants to the top 100 for girls: Ada, Bella, Bonnie and Ivy. Ada gained 67 places, moving from 137th to 70th place between 2017 and 2018. Ivy also rose from 137th place to 84th over the same period.

Some less popular names for boys included Diego, Ruan, Casper, Donal and Felix. Less popular girls’ names included Tessa, Mae, Arianna, Faith and Helen.