Mumsnet's most loved baby names

My DD's name is always popular. I won't tell you what it is though.
DS's name is more marmite.

Persephone. Dreadful name. Don't get the love for it. Its spelt Percy-Phone

No, it's spelled Persephone

Anna - #1 from what I've seen
Eleanor
Alice
Emma
Katherine
Rose
Sophie
Clara - I prefer Cara myself

James
Alexander
Daniel

White, middle class, and familiar with no bad nns. I consider them cozy names with no extreme sounds.

Persephone. Dreadful name. Don't get the love for it. Its spelt Percy-Phone and I can't get past that. My number 1 alltime worse suggestion on MN name.

Hugo, Arlo and Otto get lots of love and I really don't get it. Sebastian is thought of as unusual but i have no idea why. Theodore is massively popular too but now overused.

George, Henry, William and Edward all seem popular on MN. I've always thought them rather ugly looking and clunky names. And no one ever says "You don't want to name them after a King. Think how hard it is to live up to the name" which kind of amuses me.

I know a Wren (daughter of male Rowan) and 3 Penelopes (all nicknamed Penny and in their teens). They aren't posh and they very much suit them.

But I think my favourite suggestion when I asked about names similar to Isla was ‘Isis.’

Seriously?

In fairness, Grace, Alice and Sophia are pretty consistently in the top 30. They are just normal ‘nice girl’ names, I think.

Margot though ...

New post up about girls names and yes it's Grace, Alice, Sophia and Margot

Rupert

@douliket someone's in a good mood

I prefer all the so called boring names 100x more than weird unusual names...e.g. Lacey, Macey, Forest.

Eliza
Lilian
Olivia
Alice
Violet

Seriously,could they be any more old lady like(as some like to say,classic🙄)

They are so dull and because they are so old and stable ,mumsnetters think if they revive these names that means they most be timeless and classics but everyone knows they are the most boring and dull names and there is good reason why many years passed without many of these violets or lilians running about.

As time moves on, and people are not restricted to such bland names with family ties,why do many mumsnetters stick with the old and boring and somewhat ugly names(sorry Lilian )

There are so many beautiful names out there for both boys and girls, can we please leave the dull and boring Thomas's, Brian's, Anna's and Mary's behind.

And then there is the ridiculously over used names such as
Ellie
Ella
Bella
Lucy
Elle
Eve
Evie
Lily
Rose
Willow
Hannah

And every name has a may or rose or Kate on the end
Lily may
Lily rose
Ella Kate
Rosie Kate
Evie may
Evie rose 🙄🙄🙄🙄

Am sorry but it's a real pet peeve of mine, these stupid overused names(sorry)

I have a DC with one of the hated/MN names. Luckily they are frightfully posh so pull it off.

Yeah I do find someone can be 99% English and 1% Irish and they’re desperate to give their child an Irish name citing ‘heritage’

My white British DD was born in Spain and has Spanish/Latin American heritage on her father's side.

I'm glad I gave her an English name now as I don't want people thinking I'm having an Hilaria Baldwin style breakdown.

I have a 5 year old Christopher . He is a Chris though and not a Kit .

There are also many threads with posters like yourself, who aren’t actually Welsh/Irish/Scottish but maybe have some heritage, asking whether it is acceptable to use a Welsh/Irish/Scottish name.

I have an unusual surname - it is English but very old and specific to a particular area. It is both easy to say and spell, but people don’t ‘get’ it. It’s no biggie I just use the phonetic alphabet.

I think you’re looking for a reason to feel annoyed if I’m honest.

Spudulike. A classic

I have a Welsh name in England. People can be very rude about it IRL. Majority of people aren't but some ask if they can call me something else, or can't be bothered learning to say or spell it and it isn't a difficult name to either say or spell.

Some people have told me quite firmly that it would be 'child abuse' to give my own DC a 'ghastly' Welsh name like mine.

I have seen negative comments on here and similar sites when people post Welsh and Irish names. Lots of 'spell it properly' comments for names like Tomos, Harri, Mari and Alys, for example.

I do like having an unusual name and I like that my name reflects my heritage, I also think it's a nice name which suits me, it certainly isn't 'ghastly'. I will happily use Welsh names for my own DC. In fairness many of the Welsh names I like are traditional - in Wales at least.

IRL I think people are more likely to judge a name they perceive as 'unusual' compared to a more familiar name like Hannah or Oliver. Name boards attract people who are more interested than your average person so you'll get more unusual names suggested as a result.

There is definitely a lot of love for underused but familiar names on here like Marianne, Juliet, Susannah, Laurence and Nicholas.

I still don't understand where TF Ottilie-pronounced-Ottuhly came from. PPs have pointed out its provenance (a principal character in a Goethe novel has the name) and correct pronunciation. Strangely, it's not 'come back' here in Germany at all, though you can't move for kids called Franz and Johann and Lotte and Frieda.

@Drunkenmonkey I disagree, I think with names like Charlotte or Alex, the point is that you wouldn’t be able to guess much about he person from their name - age, background etc I know tons of Charlotte and alex’s that aren’t remotely ‘middle class’ The more unique names say so much more about the parents. I agree it would be nice for people to use a bit more imagination with names and the ‘brave’ choices are often way nicer but Im not sure how people of ethnic minorities would feel about ‘white middle class’ parents using names traditionally used in their culture either. I think people are just not very nice on online forums. Not sure most people in every day life care much about baby names one way or the other! I have a boring beige name myself and it hasn’t traumatised me too much

Alice, Maeve, Grace, Emily are all popular on here and dull, dull, dull.

I think names which are classics but not overused as best-liked here

Yes I agree. Old but known names outside the top 100. Underused classics!

Elliott
Quentin
Tarquin

Maud
Olive/Olivia

Most “old lady” names TBH.

There are lots of baby Willows here. Most new baby boys seem to have names like Arthur, Henry, Edward etc but there are also plenty of the Arlo, Milo & Oscar type names too.