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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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EekThreek · 27/08/2020 23:28

Uncommon, common as muck, somewhere in between.

DD1 was outside top 100, DS in top 3, DD2 top 50 ( for the years they were born)

KTyoupigeon · 27/08/2020 23:27

DD1 - very uncommon. No one share her name in school or college and even at Uni (RG London so large) there was only one other with a different spelling.

DD2 - uncommon when named 18 years ago but now becoming more popular. Again no one named the same at school and only 1 other at college.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 27/08/2020 23:27

My DS's name is very common, if you google first name and surname there are thousands of men of South Indian origin with the same name. His first name is also pretty popular for UK kids, it's one of those grandad names that has made a comeback.

DD's name is fairly unusual, she has only ever once met someone with the same name. If you google her first name and surname there's only one other person that comes up, an American of Indian origin.

Legoandloldolls · 27/08/2020 23:27

I dont know any other children with my kids names.

They arent made up or trendy, just old Celtic names. Some might think my dd name is chavy but I have never met anyone with that name and I dint know any one ever with any of my kids names. Except some ageing actors

LividLaughLovely · 27/08/2020 23:27

19 babies with his name in England in 2018 (only year I can find searchy thing for). None in Scotland or Ireland.

Yet somehow 20 babies with my guilty pleasure name, which is Zephyr Grin So I somehow managed to give him a more out-there name than Zephyr, it seems!

WhenDoISleep · 27/08/2020 23:25

DS1 - pretty uncommon. We have never met another one and in the ONS list for the year of his birth there were around 150 with that name.

DS2 - so rare that his name didn’t feature in the ONS list at all.

stardance · 27/08/2020 23:24

Both fairly uncommon I think. I can think of one two other children who share each of their names- none of which they're likely to cross paths with.

ColdTattyWaitingForSummer · 27/08/2020 23:24

Two fairly classic names.. top 100 but not top 20 as a guess. One very uncommon, as in he was the only one born in Scotland with that name that year! (Although there are much more popular variants of it out there.)

UsernameNotValid · 27/08/2020 23:24

Both are well used, 1 is more common in the other.

spookmeout · 27/08/2020 23:22

Deliberately top 50 but not top 10

Ron1984 · 27/08/2020 23:20

Both very uncommon - although some classic names are beautiful I wanted something really different almost so that the surname isn’t needed

Kettlingur · 27/08/2020 23:19

DS1: Maybe top50
DS2: SUPER common. We lived abroad when he was born and had no idea his name was the trendiest in our language.

DrMadelineMaxwell · 27/08/2020 23:16

My own name very uncommon, have only met 2 others in my life -usually spelt differently - and only one famous person (from TV) has it spelt the same way.

DD1's name - fairly common but no others in her year in primary or secondary.

DD2's name (chosen by DD1) - very common. Six alone in her year in primary, 4 in her class.

At least DD1 and 2 don't get sniggered at for their name in secondary, as I did as it was unusual, and people don't ask them how to spell it and still get it wrong!

LadyGAgain · 27/08/2020 23:15

Neither of mine in the top 100.

mathanxiety · 27/08/2020 23:14

1 extremely common, 4 off-the-charts uncommon.

DowntonCrabby · 27/08/2020 23:13

Teen DD‘s name was probably top 30, now maybe top 100 at a push for new babies.

Primary school DS was probably too 50 of the year he was born, it’s become top 10 popular now.

SilverOtter · 27/08/2020 23:13

One very, one not at all!

jessstan2 · 27/08/2020 23:12

Common, in the sense that lots of people have the name and always have. I chose it for that reason (& like it of course), wanted something classic so there would never be any mick taking. My offspring thinks it's a 'cool' name and thinks all kids should be called that; naturally has always had many friends called the same :-).

OhTheRoses · 27/08/2020 23:12

I'd say both mine have classic, often used names.

MojoJojo71 · 27/08/2020 23:12

DS’s name is a classic and reasonable popular, always in the top 20-30

DD’s Name isn’t in the top 100. It’s been a more popular name in the past (It’s my mum’s name too) but you don’t meet many children with her name

Didiusfalco · 27/08/2020 23:10

Really common, but not commonly used for young children at the moment.

Whathewhatnow · 27/08/2020 23:10

Dd: around 150 per year in E/wales. DS, around 15 per year. I'd say common is anything in the top 100, but uncommon doesn't mean you wont share a class group with another, and common doesnt mean you will IYSWIM.

As it happens we know 2 of the girls named the same as my DD in the same year as her. And we also know one of the boys with DS'S name, from same birth year. And one born a couple of years prior. Total coincidence.

CasuallyMasculine · 27/08/2020 23:09

DD - very uncommon. It’s an old lady name but not of the Mabel, Elsie, Kitty ilk.

DS - uncommon, but wouldn’t have been in 1970 Grin

sweetkitty · 27/08/2020 23:09

DD1 - common
DD2 - very uncommon
DD3 - quite uncommon maybe just top 100
DS - common

89redballoons · 27/08/2020 23:06

Uncommon - there were about 90 babies with his name born last year, and another 90 or so with an alternative spelling of it.

That said, I've seen it suggested loads on here over the last few weeks, so it might be about to explode in popularity Hmm