Gutted. Tell me I'm overreacting!

Its a very popular name. It is also very lovely.

I did the same thing...unwittingly gave my daughter a pretty but zeitgeisty name. Dont sweat it. Its obviously popular because its gorgeous.

My age is easily guessed from my name, which was popular at the time but isn't now. I was one of three girls with this name in the infants class at my very small village primary school (60 ish children in school, so roughly 20 per class).

I very rarely meet anyone with this name now. So I would agree with posters who say that as long as you love it and it suits her, please don't be gutted that you're hearing of other girls with the same name. In the big scheme of things, having a fairly popular name isn't so bad and will probably matter less as she gets older.

Chill out, if you like it and it suits her, surely that's all that matters?

Trying to work out "which way a name will go" is waste of time, surely there are more interesting things to think about in life?!

I've just checked baby names for 2012. My DD's name is right up there. Her middle name isn't even in the 20 100, and they were both around 50 when I named her. I liked both names equally....maybe I should have gone with her middle name.....just goes to show you don't know which way a name will go...

my Isla is 2 & 1/2. I don't even think it was on the top 100 list we looked at when I was pregnant with her. There is another in her nursery room and I do hear it now & again.

I really couldn't give a monkeys. I couldn't imagine her being called anything else.

DH wants Oliver if current bump is a boy. I said but it's really popular, he said so? He's right!

It is really popular

I love it. But then I would ....

YANBU to be annoyed, but don't regret it because it's a brilliant name.

My DC has one of those names which was rare when I named him (to the point where I got looks, but it's now incredibly popular. Yes, I am pissed off about it, but I don't regret giving him the name because it really suits him, and is a lovely name. And I chose it first. So ner!

I gave DC1 a top 5 baby name.....it never bothered me that there was another child with the same name in his class, what did I expect?

I know a couple of little Isla's.

But the number of Isla's won't be evenly spread out across the UK, so you're not necessarily going to be falling over them.

And FWIW, DS has a top 10 name, we've met a fair number of boys around his age with the same name (including another 2 in the toddler room at his nursery), and no-one has ever said to me "Oh, I know a (DS's name)", despite it being statistically likely that just about everyone has met someone with DS's name. So I wouldn't get too hung up about people telling you that they know an Isla.

I have an unusual name, that no one can pronounce or spell!! I gave my DD quite an unusual name 14 years ago, but today there are loads of them around. I couldn't care less. It's the name I knew was hers the moment I saw her, and it suits her perfectly.

A teacher at her old primary school stopped me in the street and said she named her DD after mine, because she loved the name so much.

Just goes to show, as I suspected, I have great taste!!

The only way you'll get a unique name is if you make one up.

Surely you have more important things to worry about.

P.S BTW I love Alfie!

I've never met one in the six years since I had ds1.

And sorry, but I know numerous Islas, ranging from less than a year to 22.

Same happened to me and my 17 year old Phoebe Grace. Nightmare.

Anyone who thinks they have been very clever in finding a name that is currently underused but still oh so tasteful, should prepare themselves for the disappointment they will feel in 5ys time when they turn up at school to find that lots of others were having just the same thought, and your Scarlett/Reece/Felix/Amelie/Isla I'd just one of a few.

Everyone seems to striving to identify themselves as unique, individual and yet classy through their children's names, but its very difficult to achieve as use everyone else is also trying to do the same thing and you can guarantee what seems like a lightbulb moment idea to you, is just a replica of the same idea happening all over.

Happens to the best of us. Even those of us who really are very unique individual and classy .

I understand your frustration, especially when you had hoped that your dd's name would not be widely used (although I'm sure Isla would have already been trending up the charts when you were pregnant?).

But, unless you can use her middle name, there really isn't much to do now, so I suggest you stop worrying about it and enjoy your dd!

Yes, it's very popular.

And as I said on the last Isla thread, ALL the Isla threads ask about popularity...! They never just ask for opinions in he name, but instead they ask if it's really as popular as they seem to think it is.

Which says a lot.

I know two Islas of about 6 and 4. It's lovely don't worry about it

Why didn't you check out name stats? It's been popular since my dd was born 6 years ago. I liked it but had heard of too many, she has a more unusual name instead which sounds similar. Having said that, all of the Isla's I know live in different areas of the country. Names are often regional in popularity.

I considered it 11 years ago for DD as I'd liked it since seeing Isla Fisher on tv ( home and away?) Called DD something else but it's out for future DDs as 2 of my ex's have Islas ( both kids are around 12-18 months)

I have a name that was extremely popular for my age group and I liked that it was :)

I know several, when my friend named her daughter Isla 3.5yrs ago we thought it was unusual, but there have been a lot since. I don't know any older children called Isla.
It's a lovely name though.
You only get a "uneeq" name if you pick something really off the wall.

I'm in South West and I'm afraid it seems very popular. DD is in Reception and there are 3 in her year (60 children altogether). I know of a couple in the year above too. Sorry about that. It's a lovely name though.

I don't know any isla's and we live in s/w

I know 2, one 6 one 3. It is popular but its not Eve/Eva. At one stage one third of the girls in DDs class were named a variant of Eve but they keep on coming! I always think of it as this generations Sarah.

No Islas in DD's year 4 class if that makes you feel any better :) It does go both ways- DD's name is heard of among older generations but rarely used, and none of her friends can spell it, even though it's a real spell it as it sounds one! Isla is nice, popular enough that people have heard of it, but not millions of them.