Boys Named Charlie and Girls Named Sophie are Likely to be on Santa’s ‘Nice List’

Boys named Charlie and girls named Sophie are likely to be on Santa’s ‘nice list’, new research has revealed.

The team at Real Santa Letters compared their internal data to the latest release of baby name figures for England and Wales to discover the children’s names most likely to be on the ‘nice list’.

Looking at the 700+ unique names submitted for the 4,262 letters sent to date, the boys’ names which had the highest percentage of children with said name, who received a ‘Real Santa Letter’, included Braelyn, Broc, Ged, Graydon, Kiernan, and Teigan. Analysing on the same basis, the girls’ names included Adie, Arian, Baillie, Charleen, Hollie-Rae, Jaylee, Kade, Kristie, Melrose, and Mylor.

As well as looking at all of the unique names, the research also analysed the figures based on the 50 most popular baby names from the last 10 years (according to ONS data – sum for years spanning 2012 to 2021) which featured in Real Santa Letters’ data to see where these compared against each other. Based on these popular names, boys named Charlie, Ethan, and Jack, and girls named Sophie, Isabelle, and Maisie, are likely to be on Santa’s ‘nice list’.

The top 20 for each gender were revealed as:

A North Pole insider commented:

“From their workshop in the North Pole, Santa makes the all-important gift lists for children of all ages. With a little help from one or two elves, Santa draws up the nice list and makes sure that his work shop has a fantastic range of toys and gifts ready to be delivered on Christmas Day. But he still makes time to sit down and write magical personalised letters for children across the world. Whilst Santa is writing his letters, he’ll spread a little festive magic and use a touch of Christmas cheer to ensure that each letter is individually personalised for each child.

“Once Santa has finished writing his letter, Mrs Claus and the elves help him out by carefully putting the letter in its very own festive envelope, which is individually personalised. Either Santa Claus or Mrs Claus give the letters one final check before each letter from Santa is prepared to be posted to all the kids on the nice list. Letters from Santa are in such high demand that there’s not an elf in Lapland who doesn’t lend a hand packing the letters in Santa’s sacks, ready to be sent from the North Pole’s post office this December”.

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