An analysis by trade newsletter the drinks business found that Margaux is now the most popular wine-related name for a baby, having overtaken Chardonnay, which grew in popularity after a character of that name starred when Footballers’ Wives aired on TV in 2002.
db analysed three decades of birth registrations in England and Wales looking for names borrowed from a grape, a region, a style of wine or the label of a famous bottle.
Where parents had spelt the same name in different ways, they pooled the variations and counted them as one name, so the six spellings of Chardonnay and the three of Sherry each appear only once in the rankings.
Margaux comes out on top with 922 registrations, every one of them a girl. The name barely registered in the late 1990s, when it was given to four babies in 1996, but it climbed steadily through the 2010s and reached a high of 102 in 2024 before easing to 88 last year.
It is also the French spelling of Margot, of course, so db says it is impossible to say how many parents had the Médoc commune or its first-growth wine in mind.
Chardonnay, in second place with 631 registrations across its six spellings, came in as Chardonay, Shardonnay, Chardonnai and other bizarre spellings.
Sherry was third with across Sherry, Sherrie and Sherri, followed by Shiraz, Tawny, Cristal, Syrah, Tuscany, Petrus and Champagne.
There were also three unfortunate boys named Dionysus after the Greek God of Wine. That's cruel.
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