Ontario's most popular baby names for 2015: Sophia, Jackson top Olivia, Liam

Sophia and Jackson are the most popular baby names in Ontario, overtaking Olivia and Liam when different spellings of similar sounding names are grouped together, according to the provincial government.

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The top girls names are:

1. Sophia/Sofia/Sofiya
2. Olivia
3. Emma/Ema
4. Ava/Avah
5. Charlotte

The top boys names are:

1. Jackson/Jaxon/Jaxson/Jaxen/Jaxxon/Jaxyn
2. Liam
3. Lucas/Lukas
4. Jacob/Jakob/Jaycob
5. Ethan

It's the first time the province has calculated the popularity ofbaby names in such a way, in an effort to reflect the impact ofnon-traditional spellings.

The Ministry of Government and Consumer Services says the newcalculation shows a new trend of parents going with differentspellings of a name.

The government has also put out a traditional top names list --which ranks each named based on its exact spelling -- which hasOlivia and Liam remaining the most common choices for the fourthyear in a row.

The baby name lists reflect data collected in 2014.