Popular baby names you're bored off...

I don't find this thread weird. People have (mostly) been polite and just musing over current trends

I think its quite regional. Personally i can't stand isla/islay etc or evie or kaiden/jayden/kyan or anything-mae.

However, thats my opinion and if people want to choose those names its up to them.

I chose a boring unoriginal classic name for DS because we liked it and i wanted him to have a recognisable spellable name!

Not at all Kerela. I just feel for a couple of posters who are now anxious because of this thread. Neither of my dds names have been mentioned on this thread. FWIW I didn't name dd2 Emily because I thought it was too popular even though I loved it. But that was my choice and I just think this thread is being a bit sneery at parents who choose to call their children popular names. You might not do it but why look down on those that do.

Ah ok

Blonde that isn't actually what I meant. But take it as you will. Some names are more or less popular depending on region.

"I live in London..." Interesting how London is far too cool to use "those" names. Hilarious but fabulous you are so proud of your post code. I think this thread is great, popular names are popular because they are nice but I love more unusual names too. In my honest opinion a child makes a name not the others way around.x

Hot no sorry it was not you. It was at some of the pp comments regarding the names as weird and wacky etc.

Olivia, Jack, Chloe, Dylan, Jayden, Florence, Alex, Oliver.

Ruby, poppy, Alfie, Freddie, Isla, esme, Eden. Double first names that have a rose or may as the second name!

NewClassic are you aiming that at me? You're either way off the mark or have me confused with another poster. I don't think Elijah and Isaiah are weird or wacky or Milan and Trey made up. I really like them actually.

I often wonder if I will have GC called Derek, Malcolm, Brian, Pamela & Maureen

I choose names that I like best and it just so happens that they are popular, classic names. I don't care if that makes me boring as I'm happy with my choices! I have to say I do snigger though when "friends" criticise my name choices as they want to be unique and then end up with more than one in their child's class??

Fwiw I do get confused sometimes with the current trend of "sameish" girls names I.e. Tilly, Lilly, Milly, Molly, Holly, Polly, Poppy etc...but I do like them and think they're pretty names and I'm not bored as such with them. I just forget whose called which...

Weird and wacky names..?? Elijah and Isaiah??
Milan is not made up.

Trey isn't made up. It means three. You think names are made up purely because its not your style of name. Now that is pretty bitchy. I guess to you some of these ethnicsounding names are just wacky or made up.

Moomin There are thousands of names in between the super popular and the likes of Ermintrude and Hester. There aren't only two options, ten-a-penny or way out wacky.

My DCs names ranked outside 800 and 1400th or something like that when I last looked (couple of years ago). Neither are wacky, crazy or weird, they aren't 'made up' names, and they don't have bizarre spellings. Just normal solid names. There are thousands of really good names out there.

Me neither tam. It was only by chance I stumbled across the national stats of names the week before dd born. Have said earlier I strill find it intriguing that generationally we all gravitate towards the same names. My first choice of names when pregnant were Emily and Olivia the same as every other pregnant 32 year old - why?!

but again, not everyone who has chosen a popular name has done so because it was popular or trendy or fashionable. We chose Ella, which we hadn't come across at all before we saw it in a magazine, because we thought it was beautiful. Still do. Had no idea about it's popularity - that didn't affect our thinking at all - didn't pick it because it was trendy, didn't pick it because we thought it was obscure - we just loved it. How hard is that to understand??!!!

I think it might surprise a lot of people that not everyone knows many DC before naming their own. I didn't. I wasn't on MN. I didn't stand around the local school gates listening to names.

Yes, some might do. But hopefully many others's kids' names won't end up becoming overused. Actually, if we all try to choose less trendy names, then there will never be 1000s of boys/girls with the same names!

I do think that some of the particularly smug parents who feel they've done their child a service in calling them Ermintrude and Hester won't be quite so smug when every little Boden-clad organic child is called something like that in a few years time

After reading all this I'm starting to think that naming my daughter Emily with full knowledge of how popular this name is would be the ultimate rebellion.

Actually, I really love the name Emily anyway.

I also think Isabel, Lily, Olivia, Eve, Jack, Thomas, Joshua, etc., are all particularly lovely names. There's not a Eunice or Myrtle in the bunch! (This doesn't mean I don't get sick of hearing of new baby Lilys, but really the name isn't to blame)

I'm quite relieved to have not seen DD's name here yet (although I've missed a couple of pages). It could be described as a 'cutesie' one, ends in 'lie', but it's short/nn for a Welsh name. Her full Welsh name was only given to 33 other babies last year; I think her nickname was around 390th last year for girls? So although not popular, I have a feeling that as people start to shun Lilly/Ellie/Milly/Tilly, DD's will be the next 'lie' name they start on.

Here in Dublin every second child seems to be called Jack or Sophie. We're a very conventional nation when it comes to names anyway. Once a name becomes popular it stays in vogue for years and years. There must be thousands of 20+ and 30+ Emmas and Sarahs around.

Peter and David would be great names for today's babies! But they wouldn't after everyone copies them and there are 1000s out there like there were in the 70s.

David would make a refreshing change to all the little Alfies, Archies and Jacks!

That is the point about this thread imo. You don't need to be 'whacky' or choose 'made up' names - it is about giving your child a name that isn't already currently used by thousands others!

And it is not about being different. It is about avoiding the super fashionable (dull, overused) names that will inevitably fall out of fashion again. And it is about having a name that can identify you without adding initals or other adjectives.

Peter I love peter.

Note I do not and will not be having a boy so no vested interest in these names!