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Without saying your first name ,is your name common/uncommon?

242 replies

FoodLover36 · 27/09/2020 14:58

Common as in well used

I would say fairly common

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OllysArmy · 27/09/2020 17:19

For my age relatively common in that there were 2 of us in my school year, was still about the same for girls that are 10 years younger than me but quite low on the list now, I think there were 2 that I am aware of when DD was at secondary. My name has only 1 variation
DD1 has a name which has no variations and usually occurs once in a secondary year group it is traditional and may be slightly more popular now that when I was a child
DD2 has a name which has many variations and is traditional and has been popular since forever.

JustanotherTuesday · 27/09/2020 17:18

Extremely uncommon, there was never anybody else at school saddled with it. I have never met someone my age or younger with the same name, they mostly seem to be in their seventies or eighties .

mathanxiety · 27/09/2020 17:17

Reasonably common in Ireland for a few decades. Uncommon elsewhere.

Lemonsyellow · 27/09/2020 17:17

Very common in the decade I was born. A name of its era. Unused nowadays. Often mentioned on here with a shudder.

Ikeameatballs · 27/09/2020 17:17

Uncommon in the UK. Very common in another European country.

daisychain1620 · 27/09/2020 17:15

Uncommon but not rare. the shortened version of my name that I use is very uncommon, I've never met another one

Buffyj · 27/09/2020 17:13

Uncommon in UK

caughtalightsneeze · 27/09/2020 17:12

Mine is very uncommon. I have never met another one who is my age or younger, although I have met a couple of much older ladies who share it.

WinifredSanderson · 27/09/2020 17:11

Very uncommon

SerenityNowwwww · 27/09/2020 17:10

Yes. Vince is a bit common these days...

lilfoxfur · 27/09/2020 17:09

Very common. Is a 'royal' name beginning with V and very used in the 80s when I was born. I don't carry it off, I'm a bit common 😂 I used the shortened version

lanbro · 27/09/2020 17:09

Uncommon but perfectly normal, it often pops up as a suggestion but I've not known of any infants recently with it...

AmericanLemonade · 27/09/2020 17:08

Uncommon and have never met another (I'm 30)

KitNCaboodle · 27/09/2020 17:07

There wasn’t anyone else in my primary school with my name and I don’t think in my secondary either. However, have worked with a few, mostly younger than me. I also know of a few school aged girls with the name.
I thought it was a top 100 name but just looked and didn’t see it.

I like it and would have considered it for my daughter.

Frenzies · 27/09/2020 17:00

A classic still commonly used in my country of origin, but rare in the UK.

FOKKYFC · 27/09/2020 17:00

Extremely rare. Handful of us in the world.

YouAndMeAndTheDevilMakesThree · 27/09/2020 16:59

Not that common for my age group and very rare for babies now. Odd really as it's not a weird name or anything, everyone's heard of it.

jmh740 · 27/09/2020 16:59

Common for the decade i was born in was a lot in my year at school, my best friend as a child had the same name,
I work in a school one of the boys was talking about his mum she has the same name as me and practically the whole class said it was an old person name! I'm in my 40s I dont think you would find many people under 30 with the same name

RiftGibbon · 27/09/2020 16:58

Quite popular at the time I was born - not a name that has come back into fashion (yet).

WhatHaveIFound · 27/09/2020 16:57

Uncommon both in this country and my dad's birth country. It's unusual enough that I have to spell it out to people.

june2007 · 27/09/2020 16:57

Well I am a 970,s baby and it was quite popular then. I have known a few others around my age with it but not overly popular.

NameChange2PostThis · 27/09/2020 16:56

Uncommon - but fairly common in another country

doctorhamster · 27/09/2020 16:56

Not really unusual but not common either. The others I know of/have met are at least 10 years older than me. I've never met/heard of one younger than me.

merryhouse · 27/09/2020 16:54

oh, and my surname is so uncommon we're probably related to all of them, even the spelling variation - though we haven't yet found the link. Nevertheless there were at one point three people with the same first name and surname - one of them my third or fourth cousin, the other married in.

Frazzled13 · 27/09/2020 16:54

Uncommon, a couple a year I think (looked into it out of interest when picking DD’s name).
Always been similarly uncommon I believe, don’t think I’ve ever met another.