Baby name data 2011 - Part 1

We are often asked how we decide which names to record on our CDs. The answer is that we start with the lists of the most popular baby names published by the Office for National Statistics every year. We then record other names when they are ordered.

The data published by the Office for National Statistics makes interesting reading. They have recently published the report on baby names for England and Wales for 2011. The full report can be seen at http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171778_276015.pdf.

The key findings of the report are

• Harry and Amelia were the most popular first names given to babies born in England and Wales in 2011, replacing Oliver and Olivia in 2010
• Jacob replaced George in the top 10 most popular names for baby boys climbing five places from number 12 to number 7
• Ava and Isabella replaced Evie and Chloe in the top 10 most popular names for baby girls, both climbing two places from numbers 11 and 12 to numbers 9 and 10 respectively
• In Wales, Oliver was the most popular name for baby boys for the second year running, while Lily replaced Ruby as the most popular name for baby girls.

The report lists the top 100 names for boys and girls and also shows the names in word clouds.

How do we decide what names to put in our songs?

People often ask us how we decide which names to record in our songs. We can record any name and we regularly get orders from parents of children with very unusual names who struggle to get personalised gifts elsewhere. We always have a large range of the more common names in stock.

We use the surveys of top 100 baby names published by the Office for National Statistics every year to decide on our basic stock list. The latest data published is for 2009.

There have been some changes amongst the boys names. For 14 years, the most popular name was Jack. This has now been relegated to no. 2 and has been replaced by Olivia. No change for the most popular girls name - it's Olivia.

The top 10 names for boys and girls in 2009 were

	Boys names	Girls names
1	Oliver	Olivia
2	Jack	Ruby
3	Harry	Chloe
4	Alfie	Emily
5	Joshua	Sophie
6	Thomas	Jessica
7	Charlie	Grace
8	William	Lily
9	James	Amelia
10	Daniel	Evie

There were six new entries to the top 100 boys names: Aiden, Arthur, Frederick, Jude, Stanley and Austin. The folioing names were pushed out of the top 100: Blake, Jay, Billy, Corey, Zak and Sean.

Only three new names appear in the top 100 girls names: Heidi, Sara and Mya. These pushed out Maryam, Alicia, Courtney and Abbie. (The list for 2008 had two names tying at no. 100 and so four names were pushed out of the list.)

Heeley Festival

Had a good day at the Heeley Festival yesterday. Lots of people there and even a couple of showers didn't dampen spirits. All sorts of people from all sorts of nationalities and walks of life. My personal favourite was the guy with dyed red beard and dreads carrying a bong in what looked to be a flight case! We also had a bit of a giggle about the woman who we thought was asking about our CDs and received the whole of our sales pitch and then said "No, I said where are the cream teas?"

There was lots of interest in our personalised CDs. We sold quite a few and came away with some orders too. Most of the orders were for quite unusual names - Mila, Maliha, Maya and Yafeu-Tor. I suppose it must be difficult for parents of children with unusual names to find personalised gifts. We are able to record our songs to feature any name - at least we've not found one yet that we couldn't put into our songs! All of the orders we received yesterday will be recorded today and in the post tomorrow morning.

If you have bought a CD from us recently, we would be very grateful if you could spare us a couple of minutes to give us some feedback. We now have a review section on our Facebook page and would love potential customers to be able to see what people think of our CDs.

We also have a Facebook store where you can purchase Button Music CDs. If you visit our page and click 'Like', you will get a 5% discount. We have other offers on from time to time too.

You can find our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/buttonmusic

You can follow us on Twitter too. @buttonmusic

Lazy muso talk

February since the last one. How slack are we?
Loads happened since then.
The Birthday Cd- that difficult 2nd album- has been up and running for months now and while we've hardly been rushed off our feet sales wise, the feedback has been even more positive than the bedtime one, and from people whose opinion I value. So having got the equivalent of a Simon Cowell nod, we have been working feverishly on our leave your dignity at the door Xmas offering. It is more jokey than the previous two and preys on that greatest of weapons for parents at Xmas-the threat of not getting any presents if you don't behave yourself. It is weird playing Christmas songs in June but I need to crack on if I am going to finish it in time for Tesco's first selection boxes appearing on the shelves. Hope you listen to the birthday cd at www.buttonmusic.co.uk
Xx

Button Music Birthday CD

At last the Button Music Birthday CD is available. Each track features your child's name.

The CD is available from our website for just £4.99.

We have many names available and we can can record ANY name.

Button Music website

Events for 2011

We'll be attending a number of events during 2011 to sell the Button Music CDs. Hope to see you at one of them.

Saturday 5th March               10am - 4pm

Spring Craft Fair at Bullcroft Memorial Hall, Carcroft, Doncaster           

Sunday 1st May                     10am - 4pm

Spring Craft Fair at The Glasshouse, Kirk Sandall, Doncaster                 

Saturday 21st May               10am - 4pm

Summer Craft Fair at Bullcroft Memorial Hall, Carcroft, Doncaster        

Sunday 19th June                 10am - 4pm

Summer Craft Fair at The Glasshouse, Kirk Sandall, Doncaster             

Saturday 3rd September     10am - 4pm

Autumn Craft Fair at Bullcroft Memorial Hall, Carcroft, Doncaster 

Saturday 26th November    10am - 4pm

Christmas Craft Fair at Bullcroft Memorial Hall, Carcroft, Doncaster

Sunday 4th December       10am - 4pm

Christmas Craft Fair at The Glasshouse, Kirk Sandall, Doncaster    

For more information about any of these events, please visit our website.
http:\\www.buttonmusic.co.uk

More events will be added soon.

Birthday CD

Our second CD is nearing completion!

Brett is currently finishing off the personalised birthday CD which contains two catchy song both of which feature a child's name.

He had originally intended to include a recording of 'Happy Birthday' but his plans were scuppered. The song is still under copyright - to Time Warner. Apparently they make about $2 million a year in royalties. We decided we weren't going to contribute towards this so Brett wrote his own birthday song!

Keep an eye on our website to check when it goes on sale.

http://www.buttonmusic.co.uk

Our Bedtime CD is still available - and with free delivery. All songs can be heard on our website.


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