Bradley and Paige top naughty list

With Christmas fast approaching, children named Bradley and Paige will need to be on their best behaviour if they are to avoid Santa’s naughty list, a survey claims.

It suggests that youngsters with these names are likely to be the least well behaved. But those called Benjamin and Elizabeth can hang up their stockings now as they are most likely to be the best behaved children.

The survey, by School Stickers, looked at the names of more than 63,000 children who logged good behaviour awards in online sticker books. It found that the boys’ names which appeared most frequently were Benjamin, Alex, Jordan, Mohammed and Aaron and, for girls, Elizabeth, Rosie, Grace, Lydia and Emma.

The boys’ names that appeared least often were Bradley, Jacob, William, Morgan and Joe and, for girls, Paige, Niamh, Natalie, Holly and Phoebe.