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All the baby girls...

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KnitterNotTwitter · 14/10/2010 11:25

...that I know and have been born recently are called

Imogen
Grace
Elodie
Evie
Amelia
Daisy

And permutations including the above for their middle names. i.e. Imogen Grace and Daisy Amelia... How did these names suddenly get so popular? And would you use them?

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ElGee · 20/10/2010 02:38

Where I live all the baby girls are called Ruby, Lily, Olivia, Isabella or Evie, and yes all their middle names seem to be May or Rose! The boys are Jack, Joshua, Alfie or Lewis. All are lovely names though so its not hard to see why they're so popular.

I was born in the 80s and when I was at school popular girls names were Rachel, Laura, Jenny and Stephanie. Boys were all called Stephen, David or Michael.

TondelayooohSchwarlock · 18/10/2010 17:15

Heh heh Knitter I'll have to ask.

NB: I was going to be an Archie if i was a boy back in the late mid seventies so she must have some sort of trend radar.

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KnitterNotTwitter · 18/10/2010 14:06

Tondelay... oooh if your mum is a good name picker what would she suggest today?

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4andnotout · 17/10/2010 19:58

Thank you Karma :) usually they get a mn slating Grin

fedupofnamechanging · 17/10/2010 19:54

They are all lovely names though, 4andnotout

4andnotout · 17/10/2010 19:50

I must be very predictable as not only is my name Sophie Louise (1982) but my dd's are Olivia-Mae, Elana-Rose, Maisy-Rae and Tilly-Grace. There seem to have been a lot of Lola's and Mia's where we live.

fedupofnamechanging · 17/10/2010 19:40

TSC I am a 1970' Sarah Louise. My mum swears it was unusual when she chose it!

TondelayooohSchwarlock · 17/10/2010 17:39

My mum must be ahead of her time, because I was going to be an Imogen, my middle name is Grace and she suggested Elodie as a girl's name about 10 years ago.

Of that list I only know one - Evie. But there are dozens and dozens of Isabellas round my way. DOZENS. On the birth registrar you just tick a box and auto-fills Isabella if you have a girl.

Boys are Josh, Jack, Oscar, Finley and Jake.

flopsy1974 · 17/10/2010 17:20

Where i live the are loads of Lily's, Olivia's, Maddisons and Lexie's. A names popularity definately depend on where you live. For boy's Harley and names which are really surnames are popular Hmm. Although i don't know any Jack's.

silkymitts · 17/10/2010 15:23

Grace and Evie are popular where I am but the others less so.

Ineedsomesleep · 17/10/2010 10:07

Yeah, it seemed to be Jane or Louise for middle names in the late 60's/early 70's.

Paige seemed to be popular in the 90's. Not sure what the popular 80's middle names were.

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lowrib · 17/10/2010 00:50

FWIW when I was growing up the 'default' middle name was Louise. Not my middle name but about half of my mates at primary school.

lowrib · 17/10/2010 00:48

You forgot to mention the other two 'default' middle names. If it's not Grace it'll be Rose or May.

lowrib · 17/10/2010 00:47

Is Elodie getting popular? Really? !

It's been a favourite name of mine since I lived with a French woman called Elodie some years back. I won't be able to use it - I had a DS (and I don't think DP would go for if we have a DD one day anyway) and so I've suggested it to everyone who would listen! - Particularly on MN.

electra · 16/10/2010 20:17

None of those names were on my list but I have an Isabella which seems to be getting quite popular.

littlemisslozza · 16/10/2010 20:15

All except Elodie popular round here, however the last three baby girls born to my friends within 2 months have been called Jessica!

CrazyPlateLady · 16/10/2010 20:11

I don't actually know any girls with those names from the OPs list. Amelia has been our chosen girls name for about 8 years and I love it, therefore I am still going to use it in 17 weeks time. Our DS's name is popular too but it was the only boys name we could agree on so we didn't care.

mathanxiety · 16/10/2010 20:07

The only one I'd pick would be Evie but as a nn for something longer.

CharlieBoo · 16/10/2010 18:07

Everyone on here says Evie's are 10 a penny but I don't know one round here.

Like I said you could pick a less popular name and there still be another in her class. Pick a name you LOVE.

fedupofnamechanging · 16/10/2010 14:42

Dd is 3 and called Evangeline. When she was born I didn't know of any Evies. It's only by reading MN that I gather Evie is popular at the moment.

newpup · 16/10/2010 13:54

The last 3 babies born that I have known are all Lily. Very popular here.

Evie
Grace
Imogen
Daisy
Molly
Isabelle/Isobel
Ella
Olivia
Scarlett
These names are so popular around here. At Dds school, the reception class, Years 1,2 &3 are awash with these names.

The unusual names are Catherine, Rebecca, Lucy etc. All the names that were popular when I was at school!

Fashions come and go. I love all the old fashioned 'granny' names though.

PutTheKettleOn · 16/10/2010 13:24

DD2 was very nearly an Imogen... so glad now we didn't use it, though still think it's a lovely name, as since she's been born I have met loads of them!

My strategy has always been to find a name that you love, is well-known enough for people not to go 'ehh?' when they hear it, but not so popular that you will meet loads of them, so ideally not in the top 100. Managed it with both the DDs - DD1 was easy, DD2 took a LOT of searching but we got there in the end Smile

Ineedsomesleep · 16/10/2010 13:13

Haven't met any Elodie's yet. The most recent ones I've met are Evelyn, Claudia, Lucia and Evie.

MrsC2010 · 15/10/2010 22:04

Ameila is DD's middle name, bizarrely we hadn't heard it used before so thought it wasn't that common! We certainly don't know anyone by that name. Oh well.

In my post natal group there are 2 Eve/Evie's and an Ava. Only 10 of us there!