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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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mrsmplus3 · 19/01/2012 20:56

I am finished having babies. However, if i had the chance again i would love a little Mary or Cathleen and for a boy hmmm.... Patrick? Christopher?

I already have a James. Still love that name. You have to be careful you're not just going with the trends, you have to really love the names you pick for your children as you've to live with it forever!

Thingiebob · 19/01/2012 20:44

Harrison
Jasper
Harvey
Dominic
Benjamin
Samuel
Arthur
Raymond

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TitchVida · 19/01/2012 20:43

I'm a Londoner and my hip baby is called Valentine :)

Thingiebob · 19/01/2012 20:41

I'm on London and these are the local names.

Poppy x 3
Olivia
Millie x 3
Abigail
Georgina
Emily
Miriam
Bella
Charlotte
Isabelle x 3
Cherry
Matilda x 3
Eve
Heidi

Orbinator · 19/01/2012 20:39

Toyed with Ottolie for my DD born in August, also Odette. Chose Ophelia in the end. Otto was my boy name...think I had a "thing" for O's?
Had no idea they would be so popular though, now glad I went for the "dramatic" one as my ex put it :)

jasperJohns · 19/01/2012 20:33

I know 2 Elodies, and think it's becoming hugely prolific, as will Ottilie and Clemency.

Orbinator · 19/01/2012 20:30

Surely it'll be Farrow & Ball paint names? I predict a rise in Elephant's-Breath for starters...

Kinnane · 19/01/2012 20:26

Might be
:)

Top 10 Girls Names
1.Aisling (A vision)
2.Niamh (Beautiful)
3.Sorcha (Brightness)
4.Orla (Golden)
5.Fiona (A vine)
6.Caitriona (Pure)
7.Bridget (Strong spirited)
8.Ciara (Dark, black)
9.Eileen (Light of sun)
10.Meabh (Intoxicating one)

Garden4me · 19/01/2012 20:07

Or more to the point the ones listed by the hip dublinites!?
V jelous of mother/mother in law scanning telegraph for name ideas. Is that v sad of me (don't answer:-)

ukulelelady · 19/01/2012 19:57

The posh london kids i know are although these go up to aged 4. You can tell they don't need to worry about playground bullying when they are at school with Caspar, Jonty, Monty,M
aude and Ethel.
Boys:

Basil
Lysander
Columba
Rasmus
Arthur

Felix
Louis
Ruaridh

Girls:
Clemmentine
Agnes
Edith
Rosa
Gwen

Garden4me · 19/01/2012 19:39

So what are the top Irish names? DH is Irish so we are considering Irish names but hadn't thought about popularity. We don't want to end up in the top ten accidentally!!

ivykaty44 · 19/01/2012 19:14

Girls

Jean/ Jeannie
Marie/ Marree
Cynthia
Nellie
Una

Ernest
Gerald
Job - said Jobe

Ample · 19/01/2012 19:12

Their mum is quite the arty type.

Ample · 19/01/2012 19:09

recently.

Ample · 19/01/2012 19:09

I know of twin girls recenty born in the London area.
They are Poppy-Bella (which I thought was Polly-Bella at first) and Emily-Skye.

I don't like them but each to their own!

reastie · 19/01/2012 18:40

Nutters, we picked Alice for DD as we liked it but also as we didn't want anything v popular - it had better not be the next trend Angry Grin

I hear alot of babies round my way who are Edwards and Henrys.

I love the old fashioned names and would have picked a real grannyish name for dd but alas dh has boring taste Grin

mousyMouse · 19/01/2012 16:33

my dc names are also on here. more than once even. wow I'm posh :o

LineRunner · 19/01/2012 16:29

I'll have you know that both my children's names are hidden in my lists above! Smile

I love Tudor. And Hawkeye. But them's not them.

herecomesthsun · 19/01/2012 16:17

Linerunner, Tudor is in fact the Welsh version of Theodore and is indeed a name in its own right. Quite a nice one!

ExitPursuedByaBear · 19/01/2012 16:16

Hip East London - there's a phrase I never thought I would read.

ExitPursuedByaBear · 19/01/2012 16:01

Parthenope (Florence Nightingale's sister)

CheshireDing · 19/01/2012 15:46

am I posh then?

Love Mary too.

CheshireDing · 19/01/2012 15:44

I haven't read the whole thread but my Poppy is 15 weeks old, oooh, a, I posh then? Grin

I love Florence too.

Bue · 19/01/2012 15:40

I agree that the 30s/40s/50s names will be the next trend - sensible, unfrilly, solid names. You only need to look at Lily Allen's Ethel Mary to see it happening already.