{"id":5931,"date":"2023-12-29T10:20:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T13:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=5931"},"modified":"2023-12-29T10:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T13:20:39","slug":"ns-top-baby-names-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2023\/12\/29\/ns-top-baby-names-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"NS Top Baby Names in 2023."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Henry is Nova Scotians\u2019 favourite baby name for 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top 10 names for 2023 are Henry, Theodore, Oliver, Jack, Noah, William, Owen, Liam, Jackson and Olivia, according to Nova Scotia\u2019s Registry of Vital Statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most popular names usually remain consistent over the years. There are a few new names gaining popularity, such as Bennett, with some old favourites, like Violet and Charlotte, coming back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quick Facts:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>there were 5,922 registered births this year in Nova Scotia as of December 28<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nova Scotia began formally registering births on August 1, 1864, and the most popular names that year were Mary and John<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Oliver was the top baby name for the province in 2022, with Olivia taking the crown in 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Source : Provincial Release <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry is Nova Scotians\u2019 favourite baby name for 2023. The top 10 names for 2023 are Henry, Theodore, Oliver, Jack,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-general","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5933,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions\/5933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}