Maya Loison
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first heard Jan 2021
last heard Jan 2021
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Hi, Tim.
So, I contacted our friends at the Open University, who were more than happy to help.
Dr Kostoop Adhikari is a lecturer in statistics, and I asked him, if we assume each letter of the alphabet is equally probable, then what are the chances 10 out of 28 names in Madeleine's class begin with the letter A?
It roughly comes out as a 1 in 21 million chance of seeing something like that.
Really, Tim?
I would have thought you'd gone for a more normal name like Neil before Zod.
I wondered the same thing.
Kostov has looked into the official data on the most popular names of children born in 2015, as we are looking at reception age children here.
It's based on about 600,000 births.
He found that A is in fact the most popular letter for girls' names.
It's the name Amelia, which is not only the most popular A name, it's a most popular girl's name full stop.
There were 5,000 Amelias born in 2015.
Ava also made the top five, and other popular names include Alice, Abigail, Amber and Amelie.
Amongst boys, J is the most popular starting letter.
Jack and Jacob are in the top ten, for example, but A is still more popular than most letters.
The most popular boy's name beginning with an A was Alfie, which ranked 14th.
There were about 2,500 Alfies and also in the top 50 were Alexander, Arthur and Adam.
Kostov did the sums and says it's a 1 in 780 chance.
The chance of this particular scenario in that class is about 1 in 3,000.
We know that there are 18,000 schools in England and Wales.
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