I'm older than most of you and I'm curious about why some 'new' names have become so popular.
Roman - the only Roman I've heard of is Roman Polanski. A brilliant film-maker but... some v unfortunate history. So why are there so many Romans? If it comes from E.European immigrants, it's become mainstream in a v short time.
Arlo - again, it means Woody Guthrie's son to me, but that's surely a bit niche for it to have become so popular.
Noah - I don't understand the love for this name at all, perhaps because I'm a SE Londoner by descent and we pronounced it Gnaw. (cf nugget for nougat and lickerish for liquorice. V. non-U.) We didn't know any Gnaws, just the one in the Bible who had an ark.
Tristan - it seems v popular on here. To me it's code (like Hooray Henry, or Tarquin) for various upper-class tribes. The HHs are loud and throw bread rolls. Tarquin is the pfb of a pretentious social climber and Tristans are Oxbridge culture snobs at the BBC or members of the Islington set - out of touch with the rest of the country. But when I posted on the thread, lots of people came up with council estate Tristans.
Can anyone explain the cultural references that I've missed which have changed the connotations of these names?