News Published on : 01-Nov-2021 17:02:04

Uswitch have looked at government data since 2000 to find the most popular car-inspired names in the USA and UK. The most popular name in the UK is Morgan with a link to English car manufacturer Morgan Motor Company. The name isn t gender-specific - thousands of both boys and girls have been given the name since 2000. The stand-out names for girls were Mercedes and Kia. There have been over 1 200 baby girls in the UK given each name! The clear winner for the most popular American boys name is Austin. 171 000 baby boys in the USA were named perhaps inspired by the Austin Motor Company. The research found car-related baby names are much more common for boys than girls. In the US 764 000 boys but only 142 000 girls were named after automobiles which is a boy/ girl split ratio of 382 : 71. Of all the car-inspired baby names the least popular in the UK were McLaren for boys and Triumph for girls. However these names haven t been chosen for babies born over the last few years. The most recent babies named McLaren were born in 2000 and the three baby girls sharing a name with Triumph Motor Company were born 15 years ago! In the USA the least popular car baby name for boys was Chevrolet with five babies in 2017 named after the automobile company. For girls the least common name was Mini most recently given to 5 girls in 2016. Ford McLaren and Zafira were among the other least common names for girls in the USA. The clear winner for the fastest-growing baby name in the UK is Ford. Since 2014 there has been a 57% increase in babies named after the American motor company. The most popular year for this baby name was 2019 - records show 13 babies were called Ford. The fastest-growing girls name in the UK is clearly Lotus. As of 2014 six girls share a name with the British motor company and the aquatic flower.