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 Most popular names of 2000    
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The Most Popular 'Given' Names in the UK during 2000

Rank Boys names Meaning/derivative 1999 Girls names Meaning/derivative 1999

1

 Jack form of John

1

 Chloe green shoot

1

2

 Thomas twin

2

 Emily Fem form of Emil

2

3

 James form of Jacob

3

 Megan Irish version of Margaret

3

4

 Joshua Yah saves

4

 Charlotte feminine form of Charles

6

5

 Daniel the Lord is judge

5

 Jessica Yah is looking

8

6

 Harry form of Henry

14

 Lauren

7

7

 Samuel heard by God

7

 Sophie wisdom

5

8

 Joseph Yah increases

8

 Olivia olive

4

9

 Matthew gift of Yah

6

 Hannah grace

10

10

 Callum after St Columba (dove)

9

 Lucy light

12

11

 Luke of Luciana

12

 Georgia husbandwoman

13

12

 William resolute protector

10

 Rebecca noose

9

13

 Lewis famous warrior

13

 Bethany after a village in Israel

11

14

 Oliver olive tree

21

 Amy beloved

14

15

 Ryan Irish surname

11

 Ellie form of Ellen

16

16

 Benjamin son of the right hand

16

 Katie form of Kathleen

15

17

 George farmer

18

 Emma grandmother

17

18

 Liam Irish for William

17

 Abigail father of exaltation

20

19

 Jordan after the river

15

 Molly form of Maureen

22

20

 Adam man or red earth

20

 Grace grace

27


The (NATO) Phonetic Alphabet 
 

Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta
Echo Foxtrot Golf Hotel
India Juliet Kilo Lima
Mike November Oscar Papa
Quebec Romeo Sierra Tango
Uniform Victor Whiskey X-ray
Yankee Zulu    

   
Rhyming slang  
 

Apples and Pears Stairs Adam & Eve Believe
April showers Flowers Barnaby Rudge Judge
Barnet Fair Hair Bat and Wicket Ticket
Battle cruiser Boozer Bees & honey Money
Battle of Waterloo Stew Beef heart Fart
Big Ben Ten (pds) Bird lime Time
Bo Peep Sheep Bow & arrow Sparrow
Brighton Pier Queer Bristol Cities Titties
Brussels sprout Boy scout Burton (on Trent) Rent
Bushel (and peck) Neck Butcher's (hook) Look
Cain & Abel Table Canal Boat Tote
Captain Cooks Books Cat & mouse House
Charring Cross Horse Chevy Chase Face
China (plate) Mate Cock & hen Pen
Cock linnet Minute Cock sparrow Barrow
Corn & bunnions Onnions Council houses Trousers
Cuddle & kiss Miss Cut & carried Married
Cuts & scratches Matches Daisy roots Boots
Darby & Joan Alone Derry & Toms Bombs
Dickory Dock Clock Dicky bird Word
Dicky (dirt) Shirt Dog & bone Phone
Dolly Varden Garden Early hours Flowers
Egyptian hall Ball Eighteen pence Sense
Elephant's trunk Drunk Epsom races Braces
Field of wheat Street Fife & drum Bum
First of May Say (Fisherman's) daughter Water
Flowery (dell) Prison cell Four by two Jew
Fourth of July Tie France & Spain Rain
Friar Tuck **** Frog & toad Road
Garden gate M'gistrate Garden gates Rates
Gates of Rome Home Gay & frisky Whisky
Gertie Gitana Banana Gertie Lee Thirty three
Ginger beer Queer Give & take Cake
God forbids Kids Goose & duck ****
Gooseberry tart Heart Gordon & Gotch Watch
Grasshopper Copper Green(gages) Wages
Grey Mare Fare Gungah Din Chin
Hail & rain Train Half inch Pinch
Ham & eggs Legs Hampstead Heath Teeth
Harbour light All night Barry Bluff Snuff
Harry Lauder Border Harry Randall Candle
Harry Tagg Bag Harry Tate Late
Harry Wragg Fag Harvey Nicholl Pickle
Heart sof Oak Broke Hedge & Ditch Pitch
Highland frisky Whisky Hobson's (choice) Voice
Holy friar Liar Holy Ghost Post or toast
Horse & cart Heart Hot cross bun On the run
Hot Potato Waiter Insects & ants Pants
Isle of Wight Right Itch & scratch Match
Jack & Jill Hill Jacket & vest West(end)
Jack Horner Corner Jack Jones Alone
Jack Sprat Fat or brat Jack Tar Bar
Jack the Ripper Kipper Jam jar Car
Jam tart Sweetheart Jane Shore (Shaw) Whore
Jennie Lea Tea Jenny Linder Window
Jeremiah Fire Jerry Diddle Fiddle
Jimmy Riddle Piddle Joanna Piano
Joan of Arc (Oz) Shark Joe Brown Town
Joe Rook Book Joe Rourke Crook
Johnny Horner Corner Khyber Pass Arse
Kick & prance Dance King Lear Queer
Lady Godiver Fiver Lakes of Kilarney Balmy
Laugh & joke Smoke Lay me in the gutter Butter
Left in the Lurch Church Light & dark Park
Lillian Gish Fish Lilley & Skinner Dinner
Linen draper Paper Lion's lair Chair
Loaf a bread Head Lord Mayor Swear
Lost & found Pound Lump of coke Bloke
Lump of ice Advice Lump of lead Head
Major Loder Soda Major Stevens Evens
Mickey Mouse House Miller's daughter Water
Mince pies Eyes Molly O'Morgan Organ
Mother Hubbard Cupboard Mother of Pearl Old girl
Mother's ruin Gin Mrs Chant Aunt
Muffin Baker Quaker Mutt & Jeff Deaf
Mutter & stutter Butter My word Turd
Nap & double Trouble Near & far Car (bar)
Ned Skinner Dinner Nellie Blighs Flies
Newgate Jail Tale Newington Butts Guts
Nits & lice Starting price Noah's Ark Nark or Park
Nose & chin Win Oily rag Fag
Old King Cole Dole Old pot & pan Old Man
Oliver Twist Fist One & t'other Mother or Brother
(Orchestra) stalls Balls Oscar (Asche) Cash
Over the stile Sent for trial Oxford scholar Dollar
Oxo cube Tube Pair of braces Races
Pat & Mike Bike Pat Malone Alone
Peckham Rye Tie Pen & ink Stink
Pen'oth o' chalk Walk Penny a pound Ground
Penny bun Sun / Son Piccolo & flute Suit
Pig & roast Toast Pig's ear Beer
Pillar & post Ghost Pimple & blotch Scotch
Pint pot Sot Pipe your eye Cry
Plates & dishes Missus Plates of meat Feet
Pleasure & pain Rain Pompey 'ore Twenty four
Pony & trap Crap (Po)taters in the mould  Cold
Pride & joy Boy Puff & dart Start
Rabbit (& pork) Talk Rank & ritches Breeches
Raspberry (tart) Fart Rat & mouse House
Rats & mice Dice Rhubarb pill Bill
Rip & tear Swear River Ouse Booze
Rock of Ages Wages Rosebuds Spuds
Rosy Lea Tea Rosy Loader W & soda
Rub a dub dub Club Saucepan lid Quid
Sausage and mash Cash Scapa (Flow) Go
Scotch peg Leg Ship in full sail Pint of ale
Simbad the Sailor Tailor Six to four Whore
Skin & blister Sister Sky rocket Pocket
Stand at ease Fleas/ cheese Stewed prune Tune
Stop theif Beef String of beads Leeds
Struggle & strain Train Sugar & honey Money
Swallow & sigh Tie Swear & cuss Bus
Sweeney Todd Flying Squad Tale of two Cities Titties
Tea Leaf Thief Tiddlers bait Late
Tiddley wink Drink Tin tacts Facts
Tin tank Bank Tit for tat (titfer) Hat
Tit willow Pillow Tom, Harry & Dick Sick
Tomfoolery Jewellery Tommy Tucker Supper
Tom Tit S*** Trouble & strife Wife
Tupentine The Serpentine Turtle doves Gloves
Two thirty Dirty Uncle Ben Ten
Uncle Ned Bed Uncle Willy Silly
Vera Lynn Gin Weep & wail Tale
Westminster Abbey Shabby Whistle & flute Suit

Words of the Century

(in their year of introduction - according to Collins Millennium Dictionary)

1900 Labour Party 1901 Fingerprint 1902 Teddy Bear
1903 Tarmac 1904 FIFA 1905 Sinn Fein
1906 Suffragette 1907 Allergy 1908 Borstal
1909 Jazz 1910 Girl Guide 1911 Air raid
1912 Schizophrenia 1913 Isotope 1914 Vorticism
1915 Tank 1916 Dada 1917 Cheka
1918 Bolshie 1919 Fascism 1920 Robot
1921 Chaplinesque 1922 Gigolo 1923 Spoonerism
1924 Surrealism 1925 British Summer Time 1926 Television
1927 Talkie 1928 Penicillin 1929 Maginot Line
1930 Pluto 1931 Oscar 1932 Neutron
1933 Gestapo 1934 Belisha beacon 1935 Alcoholics Anonymous
1936 Mickey Mouse 1937 Dail, Taoiseach 1938 Nylon
1939 Walter Mitty 1940 Jeep 1941 Radar (but not 'Blitz?)
1942 Robotics 1943 Dam Busters 1944 Doodlebug
1945 Tupperware (not 'Victory'?) 1946 Bikini 1947 Flying saucer
1948 Scrabble 1949 Big Brother 1950 NATO
1951 Discotheque 1952 Stoned 1953 Rock and roll
1954 Teddy boy 1955 Lego 1956 Angry young man
1957 Psychedelic 1958 Silicon chip 1959 Hovercraft
1960 Laser 1961 Catch-22 1962 Montezuma's revenge
1963 Rachmanism 1964 Moog synthesizer 1965 Miniskirt
1966 Cultural revolution 1967 Pulsar 1968 Fosbury Flop
1969 Lunar module 1970 Butterfly effect 1971 Workaholic
1972 Watergate 1973 VAT 1974 Ceefax
1975 Fractal 1976 Punk Rock 1977 European Monetary System
1978 Test-tube baby 1979 Rubik's cube 1980 Solidarity
1981 SDP 1982 Compact Disk 1983 AIDS
1984 Yuppie 1985 Glasnost 1986 Mexican wave
1987 PEP 1988 Acid House 1989 Velvet Revolution
1990 Crop circle 1991 Ethnic cleansing 1992 Clone
1993 Information Superhighway 1994 National Lottery 1995 Road rage
1996 Alcopop 1997 Blairite 1998 Viagra*
1999 Millennium bug* and dome* 2000 WAP Phone*    

These are words which following their introduction, in that year, became a commonplace part of the English  Language (and many others) - some of the wartime words suggest that the list has been censored - no mention of the Blitz or Exocets. There are some obvious words missing such as 'Internet' and 'World Wide Web'. 

The last three years are Quibs suggestions.

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Last Updated 12/11/2000