The folks over at Scrap Car Comparison, who apparently have a lot of free time on their hands while waiting for someone to pull in with a scrap car, decided it would be fun to scan the American Social Security Administration's rolls of baby names, and those of the U.K.'s Office of National Statistics, to find the countries' most- and least-popular names for newborns — that are also names of cars.
On the girls' side, the top name is Nova. Probably best to bless your child with the name for a dazzling interstellar event, rather than a 1960s economy car. Cooper is one of those last-names-as-first-names. Coopers were tradesmen who made wheels long before there were cars. Now that seems solidly vehicular.
Leon is Spanish for lion, which is why the Spanish car company SEAT named a car Leon. But more important, boys named Leon are probably named Leon because Leon was already a legit given name.Now, the list of least-popular names, below, is where things get weird: