Popular baby names you're bored off...

Honestly, don't people have more important things to concern themselves with!

Maki79 a name can be unique without being odd or out there.

Finley/Finlay.

I think every other little boy I've met recently has been either a Finley or a Finlay. I do actually like the name but it's popularity has put me off.

For girls it's either Poppy or Ellie.

I imagine it was, though right from the start we were First Name, initial of surname. So it never felt like something was added on so maybe they learnt with the initials first.
Now I am 'x -Isobel's Mum'.

"I was one of 6 in my class at school with the same name."

Wow - if it wasn't an issue for you, I'm sure it must have been for the teachers ! I help out at the Scouts and we have a group with 4 Jacks, two of which share the same surname - that doesn't make it easy for calling just one of them!

My DD is called Isobel. She is 5, in reception and is the only Isobel (or variation of) in her year group. There are 3 classes.

Not that it makes a blind bit of difference, I was one of 6 in my class at school with the same name. And am one of 3 mums with the same name at the school gate. I have never found it to be an issue.

My DS' s name gas also been mentioned ob this thread. There are 2 of them in there year and another 4 or 5 in the school. Again doesn't bother him.

Incidentally my DH is the only person I know with his name and it drives him mad that despite it being a perfectly ordinary name very few people pronounce it how it naturally sounds in our accent. It either comes out as dodgy cockney ( due to an old character in Eastenders) or with an elongated vowel. Which he maintains is not his name.

Boys names I get sick of hearing:

Alfie
McKenzie
Josh/Joshua
Jake

Girls Names:
Ellie
Ella
Isobel/Isabella
Evie
Milly

My name isn't that common in my age group, but it popular for children now. I am always spinning around in the supermarket or playground wondering why someone has yelled my name!

Agree we give names to help identify people. I suppose in my ideal world everyone would have their own unique name. It seems strange to me to have a baby and then they become just another jack or isla. I realise other people see it completely differently, but people who like popular names shouldn't assume that us "interesting" namers are just doing it to show off or be pretentious. I just wanted my DC to have their own name, hopefully, at least among their peer group, and names that meant something in our family.

Weird thread! Is 'boring' better than shouting a unique name accross the playground and have every other parent turn to look at you to find out if that scream was aimed at the child or the dog??

On the contrary, shouting a popular name like Jack across the playground will probably have many kids and parents wondering whether their Jack was meant. A less trendy name is more likely to identify a specific child. Isn't that why we name people?

And why on earth does a less overused name imply it is a dogs' name?!

Tom and Ben - middle class cliches

I disagree and think mass use has made these classless. The good thing about this type of name is that you couldn't tell (on paper, by the name alone) whether a Tom was working class, middle, or aristocracy.

I know loads of Willows, and it's high in the charts, in the top 100 too, and rising quickly. Not unusual at all.

I too would rather take the interesting names - Willow, Ernest/Ernie, Bayard/Bay - rather than adding yet another little Evie or Jack!

I hear of a lot of Ellie/Ella/Ellie-Mays and Jacks.... I have a Jack and agree it's quite a boring name and I disliked it for a long time but it suits my ds

*In the last few months we've had willow, ernie, betsy, bay, sterling, maya and bellamie.

I'll take all of the boring ones over 'interesting' alternatives.*

I'd take all of the interesting ones over the boring ones. "Baby Ernie", fantastic! :o

Maya is on my boring list though, know loads of them.

Although I love him I admit my DS has quite a boring name. I will list it and all others I'm a little 'used to':

Isabella
Olivia
Florence
Sebastian
Oscar
Samuel

But after reading this:

In the last few months we've had willow, ernie, betsy, bay, sterling, maya and bellamie.

I'll take all of the boring ones over 'interesting' alternatives.

Three of my friends have eves now 7 and two have name regret and said if they had realised how popular they wouldn't have picked it.

As soon as I saw the thread title I thought Isla.

Also sick of:
Ava
Evie
Amelia
Liam
Luca/Lucas

Where we live the name Jack is so so popular, I am almost more surprised when I see or hear of a baby boy that isn't called Jack rather than when I hear of one called anything else.
Girls names are the Amelia, Milly, Emily, Sophie and Charlotte variety.

I love the name Orla definitely my favourite. However, I'd love my mum's name Sheelagh as a middle name. Do they sound strange together? Orla Sheelah? I could go for Orla Katherine. Or Rose/Rosalind Sheelagh?
Interested to hear thoughts!

Tom and Ben - middle class cliches
Toby and Barney - the next rung of the social ladder, and every bit as cliched.

Harry, Josh, Alfie, Finley, Stanley,

Lila, Lyla, Leila, Layla, etc, Megan, Evie, Bethan, Ella, Jasmine, Caitlin

Interesting thread. I do think that some names lose some of their appeal and interest simply because I hear them all the time.

Here it is Eve, Ellie, Sophie, Charlie, Harry, Sam, Finn in particular!

I think these things are highly regional. For me Ava and Harry are the two which I would have said I liked before breeding, but three DCs worth if nursery friends, school friends, swimming friends, dancing friends etc later and sadly I almost just here "blah" when a child or their parent tells me they have these names. Which I do feel sad/ guilty about as they are lovely names. But we seriously have had "not Ava B from swimming, Ava B from after school club" conversations. And there are 3 Harry's in a swimming class of 6 toddlers. Two girls (one an Ava!), my DS (moderately popular name -bottom half of top 100), and three Harry's. They are "big Harry, little Harry, and curly Harry", poor boys!