Calling all teachers/child minders ect

One year group had 5 Olivers out of 60 kids at my school.
Harry is popular and Charlie. Louis, Leo, Max.

For girls I know tons of Amys, flower names are really done to death too.
Olivias I know about 3 thousand of.

Around here toddler names I hear repeated a lot are Noah, Alfie, Finn, Theo, Arlo, Reggie, Arthur, Jack, Oliver, Freya, Evie, Isla, Ava, Mia, Florence

But I think just go for a name you like. As someone else said there’s so much more diversity with names now it won’t be like when we were at school! I think now the most popular boys name (Oliver) had around 5000 named it in the year where as 20 years ago it was more like 10,000 (Jack). So even the most popular name has half the repeats it used to have!

There's loads of names outside the top 100 that fit your criteria @Pops55

Laurence
Louisa
Peter
Lucy (inside top 100 but falling)
Margaret
Matthew
Audrey
Seth
Nathan
Miles
Clementine

Loads more obviously. Just a few examples

Just pick the name you like?
I've had two dc, I could never get worked up about this.
I'm a teacher as well!!

Just pick a name you love. DS is in a class of 27 and there are no repetitions even though there are children with very popular names like Theo, Ava, Sophie, Grace, Jack, Evie. There seems to be more diversity now than my class in the early 90s where we had 4 Lauras, 3 Emmas and 3 Sarahs!

It definitely depends on the area too, I’ve never looked after an Evie, Willow, Theo or Arlo which seem to be mentioned as too popular on here. Where as in my current setting we have 4 Islas in the toddler room and 3 in the baby room (it’s a big nursery)

For me, Isla is the most popular girls name in my setting. Followed by Amelia, Olivia, Isabella (or other combinations). Imogen is also very popular

Boys are Oliver, Alfie, Freddie, Finley.

I agree, it varies lots by region. Our London school has Layla, Freya, Iris, Erin, Niamh, Maya, Max, Leo and Arthur strongly represented. I've not come across one Oliver, Harry, Charlie or Emily. The odd Olivia or Isabelle, but both are more rare than Olive and Eliza. There are more babies called Otis in the area than you would expect.

Oh and Mia

I think it’s quite regional.
SW here and I would say
Florence
Arthur
Teddy
Theo
Logan
Boys names ending in IE
Olivia
Amelia/Emilia

Willow
Girls names starting with a vowel
Darcy/Darcey/Darcie

I once taught a class with 7 Megans / Meghans. I don't think there were any others in the rest of the Primary school. That group will be able 20 now!

A few years ago when I used to do cover work in different primaries it seemed that every single Yr 1 - 3 class had at least 3 Avas, another 2 or 3 Evies and Yvies plus a couple of Evelyn’s with the odd Eve thrown in for good measure. Then a couple of Isabel/Isobel/Isabellas. It would end up being 15 girls named variations of the same 3 or 4 names. In every school I worked in!

I now teach at universities and it seems every 3rd girl is Amie/Amy/Aimee, Charlotte/Lottie/Charlie or Chloe!

There’s more variation with boys but loads of Jordans, Jacobs, James, Josh, Joey, Jack etc. J names were clearly popular for boys in the early 00s!

Ottilie
Pippa
Quen
Basil

My son has always been one of many with his name. Top ten for years and really popular.
I don't care- I still love the name, and it's him.

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. Like there being 5 boys with the same name out of the top 50name in Early years with my DD... Out of 15.

Names of babies that are popular near me

Ava
Evie
Amelia
Olivia
Ivy
Isla
Lara
Emmeline
Rose
Edie
Violet
Willow

Theo/Theodore/Teddy
Louis
Alfie
Archie
Arlo
Ezra
George
Charlie
Jack
Ollie
Leo

In my DS’s nursery there is more than one child with each of the following names:

Max
Jack
Theo
Ted
Oscar
Arlo
Nathaniel
Finley
Isla
Ava
Evie
Isabelle
Esme

I've seen a lot of Charlie's, Harry's and oscars recently.

Dd1 often jokes that all of the girls in her school are called Jessica, Milly, Tilly, Ellie or Isabelle

DD's class contains 26 children and there are two boys called Max, two girls called Emily and two called Niamh. None of those are particularly high on the top 100 names, so it's pretty tricky to predict.

There's usually two popular trends:

One are popular names that tend to be popular most years such as Oliver, Olivia, Emily, Jack, James, Jacob, Isabelle etc.

Then there's names that are popular for a particular period of time so in the last few years it seems like there's lots of George, Henry, Theo etc for boys and lots of Ava, Evie, Isla etc for girls.

I agree with just picking what you like, even if a name isn’t popular you might end up with multiple children with that name. I once taught a group with two Miley’s - I’ve never met one before or since. If you want to avoid super popular I’d say Lily, Eva/Evie, Poppy, Isla and Amelia for girls, and Jack/Jackson, Henry, Oliver and Theo/Teddy for boys, obviously just in my experience.

Have the contact list for DS's school, so 300 kids 3-13 in SW.

Notable repetitions:
Harry
Henry
Arthur
William
Noah

Florence
Olivia
Charlotte
Eleanor

SW here, secondary. Ollie is very overused for boys- I teach 4 in one Y7 class. Also Keiran/Cadan and variations of that. And Jack. Quite a few Finn/Finleys around too.

For girls, I would say Caitlin/Kaitlyn, Jessica/Jess, Masie/Milly/Tilly, Amelia/Mia, Lily.

But I would also say it's probably more important to pick a name you like than worry too much about popularity!