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What are the hip Londoners & jet set calling their 2012 babies?

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YummyMummybee · 09/01/2012 14:02

Just wondering what the posh Londoners & jet setters are calling their new babies as these are always the names that trickle into the main stream in a few months. A friend of mine is a midwife in a private London hospital & she said the following are really gaining popularity

Boy

  • Arlo
-Otto -Casper

Girls
-Fleur
-Ottolie(never heard this before!!!)
-Florence

She said in the upper class William, Edward still used commonly for boys as middle names. Charlotte, Isabella, Poppy for girls

Can you add anymore up & coming names?I'm sure there are plenty of threads like this I'm just too lazy to look!!!) Find it fascinating & I love the way high society types get away with names the majority of us find somewhat bizarre!!!

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LineRunner · 10/01/2012 00:52

Ah yes, Crunch,

Biffa
Veoilia
Onyx
Colas
Ensign

TheCrunchUnderfoot · 10/01/2012 00:25

Ahh sorry Grin I was joking... Dont know whether to be amused or deeply saddened that even Pensive and Blamm possibly got past a couple of you. lt's a sobering comment on the baby name madness.

For real: a couple of Magnuses (Magni?), Minerva, Hector, 2 Dominics, Isla, Beatrice.

ReneeVivien · 10/01/2012 00:03

Where do you LIVE, Crunch? Grin

ViviPru · 09/01/2012 23:53

For real, Crunch? You've actually encountered children with those names? I've heard of avant garde but Biffa? Seriously? That's just cruelty.

yellowflowers · 09/01/2012 23:48

Those names from your friend are popular my way amongst the middle classes too

TheCrunchUnderfoot · 09/01/2012 23:45

Boys:
Flame
Tangent
Ronnie
Biffa
Pensive

Girls:
Twigg
Larry
Monrovia
D'ashleeigh
Blamm

ReneeVivien · 09/01/2012 23:06

Martha, Ada, Agatha, George (for both sexes).

ViviPru · 09/01/2012 23:03

oo Ott- ee -lie... like it....

baubleybobbityhat · 09/01/2012 22:47

Agnes, Ada.

baubleybobbityhat · 09/01/2012 22:46

Dorothy, Ivy, Caspar, Indio, Jago, Theo.

eurochick · 09/01/2012 22:41

When I hear orla I am afraid I hear orla meaning oral sex. Orla is used as a euphemism for oral quite commonly. You cannot saddle a little girl with that!

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YummyMummybee · 09/01/2012 21:47

Gapants sure have-India Mary it is!!x oooh Summer is beautiful, yep my the mnidwife friend was saying Arlo was huge alright in her hospital

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shoobidoo · 09/01/2012 21:42

We're in South London and I've heard these recently:

Agnes
Beatrice
Dorothy
Edith
Elsie
Evelyn
Florence
Iris
Mabel
Nora
Olive
Rose

Albert
Cecil
Ernest
Ezra
Reginald/Reggie
Stanley
Sidney
Quentin
Winston

Agree about cutesy names falling out of favour, I think people are after more 'solid' names.

Gapants · 09/01/2012 21:33

In my trendy mates circle I give you--

Girls
Edie
Summer
Bess
Florence (nn-Floss)
Martha

Boys
Arlo
Fergus
Zefi
Dex
Max

yummy Have you decided then? Have you settled on India?

BigusBumus · 09/01/2012 21:20

I think Flora is way cooler than Florence.

I don't know anyone else that likes Miles or has a Miles apart from me and I've always been very proud I called my pfb that. I hope it doesn't become too popular! (ds Miles is 9).

DharmaCeutical · 09/01/2012 21:13

am also an east london-dweller in mee-jah and have heard the following in the last couple of years..

Carmen
Lotte
Wanda
Odette

Wallace
Cassius (x3!)
Bertrand (Bertie)
Wilfred

I love Wanda but at every scan DC2 seems determined to be a boy.

PercyFilth · 09/01/2012 21:12

Sorry, I must disagree that Florence is "timeless and will never date". It is faddy and very much of the moment.

mrsshears · 09/01/2012 21:02

I used to love cosmo and dibs Smile

tethersend · 09/01/2012 20:52

Cosmo and Dibs Grin

mrsshears · 09/01/2012 20:52
mrsshears · 09/01/2012 20:50

I love cosmo tethersend or should i say did until dh showed me cosmo smallpiece!

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YummyMummybee · 09/01/2012 20:44

Leif as in leaf?? That is seriously cool!!!
I love cosmos but really not sure if I could call my boy after my fave cocktail???

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tethersend · 09/01/2012 20:20

I live in hip east London, and the names you can hear being bellowed across the playground at the moment are:

Orla (LOADS of them)
Alice
Agatha
Evelyn
Leif
Elvis
Cosmo (but no Dibs as yet Wink)
Theo

And some other more leftfield ones which would make me instantly identifiable!

cakeismysaviour · 09/01/2012 20:14

I think so too. :)

vitaminC · 09/01/2012 20:10

Cake Orla is stunning :o