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I thought I was so original ...

219 replies

Carbohol78 · 04/01/2018 15:49

Freya, there were no Freya’s, DD10, other option was Isla, again no Isla’s, I thought I’d found a pretty, not odd, but not over-used name. Now there’s loads of both! Grin

Anyone else think they were “oh so original” and now the classrooms are flooded?

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FannyTheFlamingo · 07/01/2018 21:09

Only 40 babies were given DD's name last year, but I reckon they'll be all over the shop in about 5 yrs time. I was the only girl in my school with my name, 25-30 yrs ago, now it's in the top 5.

PurpleTraitor · 07/01/2018 20:57

There were 17 Melanias!

I wonder how the 2017 stat will compare on that one!!

PurpleTraitor · 07/01/2018 20:57

Viques- 21 Susans named in 2016!

BubblesBuddy · 07/01/2018 20:53

We have only met two other girls with DD1s name. It was one until recently. DD2 - never met another one. Both DDs are in their 20s. I was fairly sure we would not meet girls with the same names but you cannot always guess trends. I think luck comes into it!

PurpleTraitor · 07/01/2018 20:45

256 baby girls called Kitty in 2011

Ironically more popular than Catherine that year (only 217)

PurpleTraitor · 07/01/2018 20:42

Blackdog - the statistics have it as fairly gradual, but definite year on year growth. It went from a top 90 name to a top 35 name in 6 years. Love this geekery!

1998 - 563 Freyas
1999 - 589 Freyas
2000 - 686 Freyas
2001 - 967 Freyas
2002 - 1049 Freyas
2003 - 1211 Freyas

m0therofdragons · 07/01/2018 18:53

@MandaraSugar dd is 6. There were none when we named her 😂

MissClarke86 · 07/01/2018 18:19

We have a 11 month old Freya and as I was opening your post I wondered if it’d be about her name because we’ve noticed the same!

Never even thought of it until my mum suggested it and suddenly it’s everywhere, it’s funny how these things happen!

WaitroseCoffeeCostaCup · 07/01/2018 18:09

Never met anyone with my name (Meriel) DD1s name (Antigone) or DS2s name (not a massively unusual name-Lochlan!)

WaitroseCoffeeCostaCup · 07/01/2018 17:58

I know a 19 year old girl Jayden.

Jedbartletforpresident · 07/01/2018 17:55

I know quite a few Stuarts of primary age nibled - we're in Scotland though so name choices up here can be quite different to England

viques · 07/01/2018 17:37

When I was at school you couldn't move without falling over a Susan.

Nowadays they are like hens teeth.

Mrsknackered · 07/01/2018 17:34

My adult cousin is a Freya, it's pronounced more like 'Frer' though.

WeaselsRising · 07/01/2018 17:09

Donna Air called her DD Freya in 2003. That's one of the reasons for its huge rise in popularity.

Nibledbyducks · 07/01/2018 12:03

DS1 is 19 and a Stuart. Last time I asked on mumsnet a few years back the next youngest Stuart was 24 so probably 28 or there abouts now. Anyone know a younger one? And what happened to Nicholas? Used to be loads of them!

MandaraSugar · 07/01/2018 11:49

m0therofdragons I've met an influx of baby Kitty's in the last few years, it's grown on me. I file it with names like 'Betty' and 'Maisie' that were popular 70 or so years ago and have come back around again.

I know a young lady called Shelby who is 21. I remember when my friend named her everyone thought it sounded like a US country and western singers name and bitched about it behind her back, at a time when 'softer' sounding names like Megan, Caitlin, Chloe were most popular. Since Peaky Blinders has become so popular everyone she meets thinks her name is ace!

m0therofdragons · 07/01/2018 11:42

Dd1 and 2 are the only ones in their school and only ever met 1 other dd2 but dd3 is Kitty (after my great aunt - yes it's her birth certificate name and despite the era great aunt had a government job even though mnetters would have me believe she'll not amount to anything due to her name). There are 3 in her school and I've met a fair few locally too including sitting behind us at the Panto in Bath.

LinoleumBlownapart · 07/01/2018 10:34

WhatIWant we did that. One DS went from being the only one in the school in the UK to having to use his middle name when we moved. Older DS has a name that hasn't fallen out of use in over 200 years in either country and yet in both schools he has been the only one. I have met only a handful ranging from 90 to baby.

WhatIWant · 07/01/2018 09:23

Try moving countries .... 🙃 one of my D.C. Went from being the only kid with his name in a school of 1200 to one of four in his class in the U.K. (Plus a girl with the female version)

ErrantBakedBean · 07/01/2018 04:05

This is the website to find out if a name is heading up the charts names.darkgreener.com/ One I love currently and thought was a borderline wild choice is shooting up there...

blackdoggotmytongue · 07/01/2018 01:08

Yep it was 2000 when the newsreader called her dd Freya and suddenly every other baby girl was given the name.

nc1984 · 07/01/2018 01:06

My daughter's middle name is Freya - she's 19. I'd loved the name for years. It seemed to really take off a few years after she was born. She did know two others at sixth form college, but that was a huge college with over 2000 students.

CharizMa · 07/01/2018 01:01

I know a Frejya, she'd be about 43, is that the oldest not Scandinavian Frejya?!

PurpleTraitor · 07/01/2018 00:39

Ethan was the 21st most popular boys name in 2001, with 3195 boys called Ethan born that year! Wow!