REVEALED: The most popular baby names last year
Jack and Emily remained the most popular names for baby boys and baby girls during 2019.
It's the second successive year both names have topped the charts for babies' names registered in the country.
For boys, there is a remarkable continuity with the top five names remaining in the same position nationally over the last two years.
The top five boys names for both 2019 and 2018 were 1. Jack; 2. James; 3. Noah; 4. Conor; 5. Daniel.
There is slightly more variation nationally when it comes to girls' names, although the top two remain the same again with Emily taking first place and Grace second for the second year in a row.
Fiadh was the third most popular girls' name across the country last year. It had been in 10th the previous year. The fourth most registered girls name last year was Sophie, a position it had also occupied in 2018.
Hannah moved from 11th in 2018 to fifth in 2019, replacing Amelia, which moved from 5th in 2018 to 6th last year. Emma which had occupied 3rd place in 2018, drifted to 12th last year.
In Westmeath, Grace was the most popular girls' name for the second year in a row, whilst Jack and Conor were equally popular in the Lake County when it came to boys' names.
In Roscommon, Katie, Lucy and Chloe, were equally popular, at the top of the girls' list. This compares to a national position for those names of 24, 11 and 15 respectively.
When it came to boys' names, the Rossies again bucked the national trend, choosing Luke as the most popular. Luke was ninth on the national chart.
A map provided by the CSO indicating the most popular girls' names by county in 2019 and below, the most popular boys' names.
