‘Oliver’ and ‘Olivia’ most trendy baby names in 2010

Oliver and Olivia are the most admired toddler names in England and Wales for the second year running, it was discovered today.

Jack seized on to second position in the boys' name grouping after falling from the first category last year after a 14-year reign.

Sophie jumped three spaces up the positions, making it the second most famous name for girls, according to figures published today by the Office for National Statistics on first names given to toddlers born in 2010.

Emily went up one place to declare the spot as the third most well liked girls' name, while Lily raised four places to be the fourth.

Amelia also jumped four places to make it into the peak five.

Ruby and Chloe both marked in the top five last year but both slid five places in 2010, to be classed seventh and eighth correspondingly.

Harry and Alfie remained on to third and fourth positions respectively in the boys' classes and Charlie jumped two places to absolute the top five.

George replaced Daniel in the top 10, hiking two places from number 11 to number nine. There were no fresh entries in the first 10 girls' names evaluated with 2009, though there were local distinctions with popularity of names.  In spite of Ruby's decline in the national places, it was the top name for baby girls in Wales.

This could perhaps be prejudiced by the reality it is the name of Charlotte Church's three-year-old daughter.

Jack was the most well-liked name for boys born in the North East and amid baby girls Sophie and Lily confirmed the most popular in the East and South West respectively.

Olivia was the apex name in seven English districts.

Within the 100 most liked boys' names given to toddlers born in England and Wales in 2010, there were six new entries: Ollie, Bobby, Caleb, Jenson, Dexter and Kayden.

New entries in the top 100 most popular girls' names were Annabelle, Eliza, Laila, Aisha, Maryam and Maisy.

There were 723,165 live births in England and Wales in 2010.