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Without naming your child , is your child's name common or uncommon?

236 replies

WomenHour · 27/08/2020 23:01

Mine is fairly common.

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Pippilangstrumpfie · 27/08/2020 23:06

We need to define 'common'. Used more than 50 times last year?

thenightsky · 27/08/2020 23:05

First one was uncommon when I named her in 1986. Now that name is everywhere.

Second one was uncommon and old fashionws when born in 1991 and is still uncommon.

SierraHotel · 27/08/2020 23:05

Both of my dds have names that are always referred to as being common every time they are mentioned on name threads. I've not met another child with either name in the 15 years since my eldest dd was born and I work in a nursery, if they were that common I would be meeting them 😂 must be regional I think.

Wond3rment · 27/08/2020 23:05

One is a common name, though not a Top 20 name. One is not common. Neither were by design, it just happened to be the case.

Pippilangstrumpfie · 27/08/2020 23:04

My dc's name was used 30 times last year.

Is that uncommon?

Beamur · 27/08/2020 23:04

I thought it was uncommon. Until she went to school Grin

Namechange8471 · 27/08/2020 23:04

StrumpersPlunkett

I’d say top 20 is definitely common.

BillyAndTheSillies · 27/08/2020 23:03

Both uncommon but one much more uncommon than the other.

Namechange8471 · 27/08/2020 23:03

Do you mean uncommon as is not in the top 100?
If so, dds name is uncommon.

StrumpersPlunkett · 27/08/2020 23:03

both classical names that don't seem to date, so never top of the list but always in top 20

Dinosforall · 27/08/2020 23:02

I have one of each (not really by design)