Unpopular names?

Lonnie I know a Conrad who is 40-odd as well. I wonder if it's the same person, as it is such an unusual name for that age, although I think it is becoming more popular with small boys now.

Tell me about the Conrad you know!

I love the girls name Charis, but don't know anyone called that. Not keen on how it looks written down, but love the meaning (Greek for 'grace') and love how it sounds.

I love Ezra for a boy. The looks I got when I told some friends this were

ooops, read the table wrong - it seems Morven is actually 6830th on the list. No wonder she can never find anything with her name on!

I have a Morven, which I see was the 5707th most popular name in England and Wales in 2010!!!!

I suspect the statistics would be different in Scotland, however....

I love the name Asher too. One of Joseph's brothers along with Napthali, Dan, etc.

Myra is a beautiful name MixedBerries but I wouldn't use it either, for the same reasons you wouldn't. Shame

I have an Eden (girl) and if currently gestating DC2 is a girl she will likely be called Rowan. If it is a boy i am leaning towards Kyle. All three names are outside the top 150 i think.

My sister is Meredith. She used to hate it as a child as she was the only one anyone ever knew but as an adult she has learned to embrace it. I am actually jealous of it now. I got the dull name and she got the exotic one.

DD is Eloise-am amazed it's almost in the top 100 as I have never met a single Eloise apart from her and named her after books from the 60s!

I've got a boy called Rowan. And a girl called Rosanna. A bit similar I know but they go so well with our surname. And I still love the names.

As I also have an Atticus born in 2011 I can tell you stangirl that there were 30 named Atticus in 2010!

I have to say I really love the name Myra which is no longer popular due to its associations. I posted to ask people's thoughts on this somewhere else and the consensus was that it wouldn't be a good idea to use it. As it happens we had a boy. Just wonder why Myra in particular has become so stigmatised. Ian is still common. As are the names Fred and Rose.

I can't view the link on my Mac - could someone tell me my kids' names' rankings? Daughter born 2010 is Winter and boy born this year is Atticus.

1 and 2 both have names that have become really popular but at the time they were very unusual to the point where i got looked at like this , now they are seen as "cool" (bleugh) .

3 has a name that isn't on any lists anywhere, his name brokened the google!

My daughter's name ranked joint 2589th last year! That's fairly unusual.

i predict a resurgence of 'meaningful' names - personal, familial and hereditary since its become impossible to be on the right side of original when naming your child without being seen as desperately trendy (ugh hate that word).

both john and anne are lovely names.

We're planning on calling our forthcoming daughter Anne - which I see from the link above was 1040th on the list last year.

If we were going to have a boy, he would probably have been called John.

Both good, solid, traditional names, but out of favour at the moment.

I love Saul, I love the meaning and I love that it's not popular. We are switching between this being a first name or middle name for our unborn son.

Friend of mine's daughter is called Indigo, which I think is rather good. Bit unusual without being totally wacky.

There is a Peter in my Dds reception class cheeseandmarmitesandwich :o

Lots of Robbies here in Scotland.

There are so many lovely names to choose. Someone cited John and Robert as currently unfashionable, and they do seem comparatively under-used. On the other hand I know three baby Roberts now (all aged 6m-2yrs) and we used it for DS2's middle name. I love the nicknames from it.

Love Fabian btw - was on my list. Along with many others!

sorry - just saw link up above

the last top 100 list I could find is from 2009 - does anyone have a more up-to-date link. DD1 (2.10) is Catherine - the full version and I don't know another one under about 25 (people think it's a common enough name, but actually there aren't many toddlers with the name). DD2 is Anastasia (1w1d), which is definitely an unusual name - i don't know another...

I looked at the link (can you tell I am stuck in waiting for a delivery....!) and think that lots of the least used names are lovely, although I can see why the top ten are so popular also.
My DDs are Christy and Cassia and have yet to encounter any others, but I don't think their names sound particularly out there - just for some reason nobody else seems to choose those names! On the other hand my son is called Joseph which is perennially popular but he's always been the only one in his class... BTW I think Meredith is a v pretty name :)