Top Names of 2005
The most popular names recorded in 2005 were Emma for girls and Ethan for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official StatCan data.
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Ethan | 2,236 |
| 2 | Jacob | 2,219 |
| 3 | Nathan | 2,100 |
| 4 | William | 2,033 |
| 5 | Matthew | 2,009 |
| 6 | Samuel | 1,919 |
| 7 | Joshua | 1,888 |
| 8 | Noah | 1,674 |
| 9 | Benjamin | 1,615 |
| 10 | Ryan | 1,572 |
| 11 | Alexander | 1,467 |
| 12 | Daniel | 1,412 |
| 13 | Liam | 1,398 |
| 14 | Thomas | 1,365 |
| 15 | Nicholas | 1,359 |
| 16 | Justin | 1,339 |
| 17 | Gabriel | 1,297 |
| 18 | Zachary | 1,296 |
| 19 | Owen | 1,292 |
| 20 | Michael | 1,272 |
| 21 | Lucas | 1,266 |
| 22 | Logan | 1,226 |
| 23 | Dylan | 1,193 |
| 24 | Evan | 1,175 |
| 25 | Anthony | 1,150 |
| 26 | Andrew | 1,147 |
| 27 | Tyler | 1,131 |
| 28 | Adam | 1,130 |
| 29 | Jack | 1,061 |
| 30 | James | 1,040 |
| 31 | David | 987 |
| 32 | Connor | 978 |
| 33 | Aidan | 929 |
| 34 | Carter | 858 |
| 35 | Joseph | 832 |
| 36 | Aiden | 815 |
| 37 | Xavier | 814 |
| 38 | Jordan | 813 |
| 39 | Christopher | 792 |
| 40 | Jeremy | 789 |
| 41 | Cameron | 768 |
| 42 | Tristan | 765 |
| 43 | Austin | 761 |
| 44 | Felix | 749 |
| 45 | Cole | 726 |
| 46 | Brandon | 725 |
| 47 | Nicolas | 706 |
| 48 | Jonathan | 686 |
| 49 | Olivier | 686 |
| 50 | Alexis | 681 |