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What are people's top ten names at the moment?

111 replies

threeandcounting73 · 15/09/2011 22:42

We are really stuggling to come up with a name for DC4 due soon so for inspiration could people post their top ten names at the moment? Thanks!

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DigOfTheStump · 18/09/2011 20:26

whoops, I put my age in cos I was going to compare with DD age 14, but she doesn't want to give her names out on the internet, in case you steal them lol.

DigOfTheStump · 18/09/2011 20:25

Me, age 43

boys
Patrick
Michael
Finn
Daniel
Jack
Kit
Ethan
Reuben
Malachy
Mordecai

Dunno if I would ever dare but love those last two

girls
Helen
Susannah
Beth
Erica
Ellen
Carys
Cerys
Lydia
Sylvie
Megan

Faye815 · 18/09/2011 16:59

Nice to see my name on a couple of these lists. :-P I don't plan on having children for a long time, but I like names. I'll probably have changed my mind by the time I have kids but these are my favourite at the moment.

Girls
Sylvia
Lily
Iris
Kitty
Evelyn
Maura

Boys
James
William
Rowen
Gerard
Darren
Larson
Cyrus
Everett
Ellis
Digory

I can't think of 10 names for girls. :(

LadyMondegreen · 18/09/2011 10:42

Girls

Felicity
Alice
Rowan
Lucia
Matilda
Bronwen
Penelope
Bethany
Tabitha
Rosemary

Boys

Tristan
James
Rory
Patrick
Hector
Heath
Rafael
Benjamin
Dominic
Felix

emmyloo2 · 18/09/2011 09:36

Yep stormwater they are - that's what happens when I am trying to work and Mmsnet at the same time!

spiderslegs · 18/09/2011 03:25

Abigail
Cecily
Alexandra
Dorcas

Llewellyn
William
Franklin
Damian

tiptoptally · 18/09/2011 03:19

girls name - Tirian (means kind or gentle - and the only one i knew had a sister called Tamsin!)

tummytickler · 18/09/2011 01:27

Remus at the moment Mortimer is the only name dh and i agree on if dc 5 is a ds. I love it, been waiting 4 years to use it!

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scarlettlips · 17/09/2011 21:18

Not including my own DD's name.

Boys:
Hugh
Hamish
Charles nn Charlie
Kit
Alexander
Tristan
Fraser
Campbell

Find boys names really really tough!

Girls:
Beatrix
Iona
Charlotte
India
Claudia
Marina
Violet
Cosima
Angelica
Serena
Davina

pranma · 17/09/2011 21:08

Mary Joanna Elizabeth Daisy Margery Sally Felicity Ruth Tamsin Briony
Finn Edward James Thomas Felix Benedict Dominic John Freddy Fergus

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 17/09/2011 20:36

Love Mortimer (never heard it other than in fiction though) and Hector.

MrsMcJnr · 17/09/2011 20:35

Not including my own DCs

Boys:
Aiden
Ashton
Apollo
Avery
Chase
Dalziel
Francis
Isaac
Julius
Marius
Nathan
Saul
Tavish
Troy
Zion
Elijah
Lysander
Aurelien

Girls:
Amaya
Athena
Brooke
Eden
Edeen
Eilidh
Marnie
Oonagh
Vivienne
Tallulah
Xanthe

I am pg with DC3 and there has been some great inspiration on this thread, thank you!

helendigestives · 17/09/2011 20:12

GIRLS

Felicity
Eleanor
Beatrix
Sarah
Helena
Laura
Elizabeth
Miranda
Nina
Wren

BOYS

Felix
Alexander
Seth
Patrick
Benjamin
Thomas
Frederick
Theodore
Nathaniel
Solomon

ellesabe · 17/09/2011 19:30

Jemima
Wendy
Heidi
Dorothy
Nancy
Sienna
Amber
Ivy
Felicity
Miranda

Fergus
Jasper
Ezekiel
Rufus
Otis
Hector
Rafferty
Titus
Solomon
Arthur

mopsyflopsy · 17/09/2011 12:24

I love Persephone, Marnie, Thomasina, Jethro, Victor, Peter, Ismael and Geoffrey! Lovely classic underused names.

Shouldn't we all be encouraging more name diversity - I'd rather meet a little Jethro than yet another little Jack (yawn).

I would normally not have commented on how boring I find Jack but found nodrog's comment quite nasty so felt I had to 'defend' the more unusual names Smile.

tummytickler · 17/09/2011 11:37

Thanks nodrog how sweet Hmm
Sorry it wasn't another list of Millie, Ruby, Alice, Catherine and Eliza.

PublicHair · 17/09/2011 11:30

there are some belters here (not in a good way!)

nodrog · 17/09/2011 11:24

Tummytickler, I am not suprised your husband vetoed your list, what awful names.

tummytickler · 17/09/2011 11:09

I am not including dc's, or names for next dc, but these are names I love that dh vetoed

Thomasina
Ernestine
Roberta
Marnie
Thisbe
Pandora
Rivka
Zuleika
Persephone
Gloria

Jethro
Obadiah
Geoffrey
Desmond
Raymond
Ismael
Victor
Ichabod (unusable, I know, but I love the sound)
Samuel
Peter

popsicle1984 · 17/09/2011 01:04

Girls
Octavia
Athena
Clementine
Delilah
Pearl
Blossom
India
Flavia
Rafaella
Ivy

Boys
Jasper
Seth
Roman
Walter
Amos

Not as many I like for boys!

PublicHair · 17/09/2011 00:53

John, Robert, Francis, George, Henry, William, Wilfred, Sonny, Daniel.

Clara, Kate, Rosa,Harriet, Elsa, Margaret, Elizabeth, Marianne, Juliet, Phoebe.

Offspring · 16/09/2011 23:30

Eloise
Louisa
Sasha
Isobel
Thea
Josephine
Elizabeth
Delphine
Elsa
Erin

Joseph
Euan
Max
Isaac
James
Nathaniel
Elijah
Samuel
Conor
Thomas

LetThereBeRock · 16/09/2011 23:25

In no particular order,and I have many more favourites,but I'll try to stick to ten.

Angus
Ian
Ruaraidh
Kasper or Caspian
Ambrose
Gabriel
Mortimer
Erik
Rowan
Seth

Sarah
Hazel
Alexandra
Harriet
Thea
Penny
Thora
Celeste
Sylvie
Genevieve

withLainintheWired · 16/09/2011 23:06

My favourite name today is Soraya. I don't think I have 19 others. Um, no, mind blank.

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