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what are your top 5 girls and boys names?

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lotti37 · 28/01/2011 17:32

hello

what are you top 5 girls and boys names?

Thank you!

lotti

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Bumperrlicious · 28/01/2011 19:35

Not including my own dc names:

Betty
Andrina
Aurora
Matilda
Annabel

Jacob
Isaac
Raphael
Zachary
James

My lists are pretty eclectic!

girliefriend · 28/01/2011 19:26

George
Alfie
Reuben
Cohen
? Can't think of a 5th!

Esme
Ruby
Rebekah
Tilly
? Again no 5th!!!

oh well not planning on having 10 children so I should be o.kay!!

mummylouise · 28/01/2011 19:19

Girls

Erin-Chloe (DD)
Holly
Dervela
Summer
Suzy

Boys

Finlay (DS)
Harrison
Keiren
Colm (DN)
Leon

KenDoddsDadsDog · 28/01/2011 19:18

Girls

Orla
Aoife
Aine
Cliodhna
Saoirse

Boys

Oisin
Seamus
Brendan
Patrick (Paddy)
Dara

Truffkin · 28/01/2011 19:15

MentalFloss I just had to comment as you have mine, my sister's and my niece's names all in your top 5 girls names. You clearly have good taste!

I don't have a static top 5 but like the following at the moment:

Elijah
Leonard (Leo)
Elvis
Seth
Arthur

Florence
Lola
Rose
Harriet
Seren

DanJARMouse · 28/01/2011 19:10

GIRLS

Jessica
Rebecca
Emma
Abigail
Hannah

BOYS

Daniel
James
Callum
Cameron
Thomas

ShowOfHands · 28/01/2011 19:08

Seth
Amos
Solomon
Barnaby
Er, um...

Mathilda
Josephine
Aphra
Miriam
Mirabel

RMCW · 28/01/2011 19:07

Thomas
Toby
Harry
Edward
Jacob

Elinor
Lucy
Elizabeth
Grace
Ruby

mybootsaremuddy · 28/01/2011 19:05

Xavier(ds1)
Ezekiel(Zeke)
Elijah(Eli)
Jonathan(ds2)
Quentin

Juliet(dd2)
Elizabeth(dd1)(Eliza)
Arianna
Pippa
Hettie

Lamorna · 28/01/2011 19:03

Edward
Nicholas
James
Thomas
Robert

Sarah
Elizabeth
Katherine
Louisa
Rosalind

bambiandthumper · 28/01/2011 19:01

Posy and Violet (DD's)
Aphra
Flynn
India

Sebastian (DS)
Arthur
Frederic
Harry
George

pinguwings · 28/01/2011 18:59

Lauchlan
Leo
Nathan
Jacob
Daniel

Aphra
Laurel
Bethan
Adelaide
Niamh

Oh to have 10 children...

SecretNutellaFix · 28/01/2011 18:56

Mine personally?

Sylvia
Erica
Dorothea
Georgina
Astrid

Dexter
Ignatius
Theophilus
Peter
Elias

DH hates most of mine.

Raahh · 28/01/2011 18:54

Elliot (ds)
Peter (ds mn)
Isaac (would have been ds2, but had a girl)
Alexander
Jonathan

Millicent (dd1)
Elizabeth
Philippa (dd2)
Imogen
Harriet

herbietea · 28/01/2011 18:28

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sancerrre · 28/01/2011 18:23

Chloe
Holly
Jessica
Lucy
Jocelyn

William
Benjamin
Jonathan
Nicholas
James

scoobydont · 28/01/2011 18:21

samuel
Thomas
Joseph
Jack
Harry

Lucy
Chloe
Leah
Grace
Sophie

tummytickler · 28/01/2011 18:08

Amos (ds)
Eli (ds)
Shem
Balthazar
Clarence

Iris (dd)
Pearl (dd)
Shirley
Gwendolen
Augusta

My list changes a lot though, as dh is a fussy bugger and changes his mind all the time! Shirley is my favourite at the moment, and Clarence and Balthazar are the only ones we both like for a boy!

MentalFloss · 28/01/2011 17:56

Albert
Tristan
Clement
William
Edward

Elizabeth
Juliet
Emma
Laurel
Tessa

Ooopsadaisy · 28/01/2011 17:54

Joseph
Daniel
James
Matthew
William

Emma
Rachel
Grace
Laura
Katherine

I know, I know, I am a very boring traditionalist.

deemented · 28/01/2011 17:50

Abel
Seth
Jonas
Elijah
Rohan

Erin
Ariana
Azariah
Josephine
Verity

AllieW · 28/01/2011 17:41

Arthur (DS1)
Clement
Edmund
Elias
Levi

Amabel
Cordelia
Elysia
Imogen (DD1)
Miriam

However, it's difficult to choose and I find that names move in and out of the list. Arthur & Imogen are fixtures, however, for obvious reasons!!

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