Calling all teachers/child minders ect

So many Sophies here! Evie, Amelia Millie also very common.

For boys: Finn, Finlay, Leo, Harry, Alfie

I’m in Yorkshire.

10% of my year group is called Alfie. Lots of variations of Isabelle.

Dd has a few doubles in her class of 30.

Mia
Isabella
Millie
Finn
Ronnie
Jack
Tom/Tommy

The class below ds (now mid-teens) had 6 bens, 3 finns. But no double for girls.

Ds class had no doubles. But 3 of his class mates had a younger sibling called Joseph.
They were all in the same class they would be about 12/1³ now?

What about Isabel Alexandra?

Popular ones around here, NW are:

Girls:
Isla
Mia
Ella
Lily
Amelia
Olivia

Boys:
Oliver
Arthur
Lucas
Riley
Finley

When ds went to school there were two boys in his class (of a total of 14 boys) with the same name which wasn't even in the top 200 at the time (it's a lot more popular now). In the entire school there was only one Jack and one Oliver (the most popular boys names of that year). Now in secondary school he has no Jacks and no Olivers in his year but several boys called Finn, Ross, Noah and Felix - only Noah was in the top 100 that year and not very high.
My point is that you just can't predict which names will happen to be popular where you live and in your child's school.
My daughter has a popular name (not top 30 not not far outside the year she was born) - when we looked round the primary school the head teacher rolled his eyes and said "another one?!".
She's never had another one in her year group.

You’re right. It could be any of those.

I think I can guess what your surname is.

How about Jade?

Around here, the most overused girls’ names are probably Evie/Eve/Evelyn/Eva. There are also plenty of Amelias, Islas and Izzys.

For both boys and girls, there seems to be a bit of a trend for names beginning with one of the following letters: A, E, F, I O R. I’ve never met a Felicity, though.

No Evie/Ava/Grace/Amelia or Isla much too popular

No Jack/William/Joseph/Harry or George

Apart from those you're good to go

In my workplace we have some not so popular names -

Martha, Myla, Connie, Sarah, Genevieve

And

Grayson, Kiaan, Jasper, Tzion, Ruben and Artemis

Seriously, is Theo that popular now?! My teenage DS is Theo and I'm also a secondary teacher - I've never taught another Theo and he has always been the only one in his entire school.

Felicity Alice- what if your child has a bad lisp?

Felicity Anna is nicer and can be Flic for a cool nickname.

I personally think popularity does matter as like PPs have said you can never just say the first name, you have to give them a description too! Or they are known by Ava G, Ava P etc.
Although that was ok until we had 2 boys with the same first name and first 3 letters of their last names also the same! And in the same class.

I forgot to say we also have loads and loads of Dylans and Callums. There must be 2 or 3 Dylans in every year group here,
Jacob is another one there are lots of, can’t remember if I said that name in my first post.

Popularity doesn't come into it...

Ds1 has a perennially top 10 name (think it was top 20-30 when I had him, while ds 2 has a perennially rare name - some years it is unranked in the popularity lists. Ds3 has a mid range popular name.

I like them all, popularity does come into it and I'm glad I went for the name I loved each time.

Pick something outside the top 1000 names and you will be fine.

If there's only 5 or 6 of that name born the previous year you are unlikely to find you are in the same class.

There are so many names to chose from you dont have to be going leftfield to be in the unusual but not out there camp.

Sw secondary

I'd say popular names are
Girls Amber, Caitlin, Katelyn, Emily, Grace, Lilly,

The Evie, Avas, Evelyn are starting to trickle through to us

Boys Harry, Oliver, Will, Edward , Robert, Finn/ Finlay/Finley

Also a lot of Celtic / Cornish names

Felicity Hannah would give you almost the same thing without the problem initials.

I don't think FAG is great. Not just due to the homophobic slur but the cigarette connotation as well.
I personally would focus on getting the first name sorted as that's the one you'll be using all the time. Then once you've decided on that you can choose the middle name.
For example if you really like Felicity there must be a middle name you like that doesn't begin with A.
Felicity Emma
Felicity Isabel
To be honest loads of names go with Felicity.

I'm in the South east (Cambridgeshire) and I know six Sophia's/ Sofia's (mixture) through my children under five. It is so confusing, we have big Sophia, little Sophia, Playgroup Sophia, ballet Sophia, you get the idea. Never seems to come in these lists but we are overrun with them. also there are four Olivia's in DDs class. One Isla in the school. No Amelias. For boys the one I hear the most is Joshua.

From a teacher’s POV, most teens and young adults think it’s incredibly uncool to use homophobic slurs. By the time this baby is old enough for it to register, “fag” most likely won’t even be in most tweens or teens language, as it’s already outdated not to mention unacceptable in day to day usage.

I know a Tjay!

What you have to remember is that even the most popular names are given to less than one percent of babies. Statistically, there shouldn't be any repeated names in a class etc. But... Weird stuff happens

So true, I had one class with a Teejay and a TJ in it.

Alice Felicity - yes
Emily Alice - they don't flow
Emily Alexandra - the ly al again - no
Anna Emily - Anneremily- no
Anna Isabel - Annerisabel
Felicity Anna - better the other way round - no

Alice Felicity or Anna Felicity - I normally would say no to Felicity because it is too long but it goes well with these first names

There is a Genevieve in DDs class! She's 5. Known as Gigi.
OP - I know several small girls named Felicity (4 5 and under) - I am in SE England. It's a lovely name but quite popular here.

We are overrun with girls starting and ending in A in DDs class
Amelia
Amaya
Anya
Ariella
Aria
Ayla
Ada (x 3) - and I know 2 others

Popular boys names around here: Toby, Freddie, Oscar, Elijah (I know 5!), Theo, Leo, Luke/Lucas/Luca