Names you are bored of hearing...

Mia.
Layla.
George.
Harry.
Archie.

Oh wow. It’s possible to not want your child to be Amelia something as one of several in their class, but also to not want to call your child Moon Unit. I don’t think OP has asked a patronising question at all, the fact that they’re asking this probably means they defs don’t want something completely off the wall and to outdo people for wackiness, they just want to avoid complete ubiquity.

Noah
Archie
Alfie

Olivia
Ava/Eva
Amelia

Thea and Thalia! Always suggested on here and if as many people use them as suggested there must be thousands.

Theo/Albie/Alfie/Archie/Milo/Arlo etc...

Isabelle/Isabella/Isobel

Oh Nevaeh too. And misspelt names like Niamh becoming Neve, Ailbhe becoming Albie. My friend's daughter is called Keeva because Caoimhe sounded too foreign

George.
I have one, and I'm fed up of hearing myself say it a billion times an hour. I'm like a walking parody of Joyce Grenfell.

In fairness, he's not one of many at school so he's not George S. I don't mind hearing lots of the same popular name, but it's when there's a rush of a fairly uncommon name suddenly used a lot. Like Ted (seems to be dying down a bit), or Ivy. Nothing wrong with either name, it's just that sudden flurry when they're supposed to be 'safely' out of the top 10.

Arthur, Arlo, Jayden/Brayden/Kayden, Luna, Lily-Mae/Ellie-mae. Any names like Hunter, Parker, Chase, etc too.

It makes me laugh when parents pick out a name they're convinced is unique because they spell it differently.

Names of children I know lots of:

Charlie
Albie
Alfie
Freddie
Ben
Jacob
Henry (there are 4 in my son’s class of 15!)
Olivia
Evie

Forgot May and Rae.

I always thought I’d go for really unusual names and my potential future girl’s name is

I picked unusual names- not in top 100 or at the very bottom.

15 years later and one is now very common, the other not quite so much, but common enough to regularly make name suggestion threads.

Fashions change. 20 years ago using an old mans name like alfie would have been highly unusual, now it’s bloody everywhere.

Ava/Ada/Eva/Evie/Edie

Charlie. Fucking thousands of them

Luna

Ella, Ellie, Eva/Ava/Evie, Isla, Lily, Olivia, Grace, Mia, Lila/Lilla.

Jack, Freddie, Leo, Max, Oscar, Olly.

I have a Theo. Wasn’t even top 20.

The next two years it shot up in popularity 😩

I absolutely love most of these names! Are you sure you didn't all hijack my name lists?!😉

My son's name has been mentioned numerous times on this thread and my daughter's at least twice! But they're just so beautiful that I have no regrets, the reason a name becomes popular is because lots of people agree that it's great- fine by me!🤷🏻‍♀️😁

Anything with Mae at the end

This, or anything hyphenated where the full name is used every. Single. Time.

Freya, so dull and boring.
Willow
Issac
Jacob
Charlie

I always thought I’d go for really unusual names and my potential future girl’s name is but I’m pregnant with a boy and I think I’m now going for a name that’s ended up top 10 in Scotland, always thought it was relatively unusual 🙈 so I feel bad commenting on this at all 😂 but in the last year the name I keep hearing for boys near me is Ollie and the girl’s name seems to be Sophie/Sophia, every second baby here is being called them

Names I hear a lot:

• Ottilie
• Lucas
• Theo
• Freddie
• Evie / Ava / Eva / Evelyn
• Archie

Ella
Sophie
Isabel
Molly
Emily
Ava
Eva
Olivia
Evie

It's like a factory conveyor belt tagging Generic Child #5663902...

I have always loved Emilia but have never liked Amelia. To me they sound really different, Amelia is overused where I am.

Jack
Finlay
Otto
Archie, Alfie, Albie
Sam

Freya
Esme
Evie
Molly
Tilly

Agree Isla and Freya as well! So popular!
Arthur, Teddy, Archie, Alfie etc.

I always feel sorry for babies with really common names. It just sounds like their parents couldnt be arsed to think of a name so just chose what everyone else is called. I never know what to say when the 3rd person in the office announces 'baby Amelia'. Like "oh...nice".

Plus destined to be 'Freya J' etc. Throughout all of school to distinguish between the 3 other Freyas in the class.

Someone I sit with at work has an Izzy and when talks about her OWN DAUGHTER she genuinely calls her 'Izzy P' so I dont get confused with Izzy L and Izzy H, her daughters 2 best friends.

Just because a name isnt in the top 10 it doesnt make it 'wacky' and even if it is wacky, at least its interesting

Jayden, Kayden, Layden all the dens (have two in my family alone!) I'm in Scotland and it's so so common. Also Isla which is a shame because I like it haha.

Just choose a name you like.

Surely parents should try a little harder to find an interesting memorable name for their children!

@Littlefluffyclouds13
It isnt wrong for a parent to want something more individual for their child. Unusual doesn’t have to be “wacky.”
I’ve never met anyone with the same name as me. I like that fact. I wouldn’t have liked 5 other girls in my class sharing my name.