Ahead of tomorrow ONS release

Today is the day!!!!

[quote bloominglovelyorange]@BeKindBeYou you'll have to tell us if the names gone up or down (appreciate your maybe won't want to say what the actual name is)[/quote]
Definitely :)!!

I've only kept my eye on girls names because I'm expecting a girl and here are some of my predictions‐

🌸Elodie and possibly Eloise will enter the Top 100.
Eliana won't make it to the Top 100 but it will rise higher than it ever has.

🌸Mabel will climb the chart as will Penelope which will now be in the Top 20.

🌸Lily will still be in the Top 10. Lilly will enter the Top 20.

🌸Lucy and Nancy will both climb into at least the Top 40.

🌸Ellie will exit or be close to exiting the Top 100. Emma will also drop down the list.

🌸Rosie and Rose will be Top 20 and although Rosa won't make it to the Top 100 just yet its almost there.

🌸Maeve may enter the Top 100 but if not, like Rosa it will definitely be heading that way.

🌸Thalia (and possibly Noelle) will jump up the list though I doubt it will make the cut.

🌸Names with an American feel like Paisley will also start to edge their way closer to the Top 100 but not quite make it.

🌸Zara will now be at least Top 40

🌸Evelyn, Evie, Hazel will either be climbers or remain where they are

Sometimes when people had a baby they announced the name as if it was something really unusual, when often it was something that had been popular for about 20 years . Lindsay (born in the late 80s) and Rebecca (early 2000s) spring to mind.

I can think of parents with 'top 5 names' for their age group wanted less popular names for their DC but gave them names that were very popular, and some who went all out to give their DC truly unusual names.

Someone I know went to trouble to give her DC unusual names, found that the names were then 'copied' by neighbours in their small community - same first name and middle name.

@BeKindBeYou you'll have to tell us if the names gone up or down (appreciate your maybe won't want to say what the actual name is)

@KirstenBlest yes I agree. I wasn't saying Hunter is a better name than Peter ! I was just meaning it's rare that there are huge shocks in the official ONS results. If you look at the graph trajectory on dark greener website, then it won't be a shock to see that in 2020 Peter and Matthew have continued to fall and won't be top 10 names all of a sudden. Dark Greener website sort of shows what to expect. But we shall see tomorrow anyway!

Very exciting!!!

Results really are due out tomorrow! Love this even though I haven't got any babies to name!

I'd be far more likely to call my DS Peter or Matthew than Roman or Hunter

Peter and Matthew have been around for centuries, Roman and Hunter will probably be very dated in 50 years.

@BeKindBeYou you can pretty much predict almost every name which is likely to jump up if you go on the dark greener website and type the name in and look at the graph trajectory.
It's obvious from the graphs that names like Roman and Hunter have boomed whereas names like Matthew and Peter are falling
Take a look:

names.darkgreener.com/#peter

We named our little baby officially on Tuesday. I really really hope it has not ‘jumped’ the chart too high!

Additionally, our other son who was born in 2020 was named after a name we loved but did not have much insight into popular names back then or this website but it’s one that’s been mentioned loads in this thread so I’m expecting that to jump up lol

Yes to Roman! Great name, can see why it’s been popular.

Lots of what we might consider a surname as first names here so Hunter Parker and Reagan seem popular. Henry, Arthur and Theo/Ted/ Teddy/ Theodore very popular here as well. Not sure about girls because everyone I know seems to have had boys

Lyra will definitely have a rise, I think due to His Dark Materials.

Agree that Arlo will rise, it seems super popular around here right now although it probably won’t soar on ONS until the release in 2022.

It feels like 'A' names are definitely the most used for boys so I wouldn't be surprised to see the likes of Albie, Archie, Arlo, Alfie, Arley and Artie in the top 20. It genuinely sometimes feels like every small boy around here is one of the above.

Girls wise we've met about a million Lyra's and Florence's at toddler groups since they reopened. Also agreed that names such as Hope, faith and Serenity are on the rise since covid.

Yes I know. But officially Oliver is number 1 and has been for ages (I guess there are is also Ollie and Olly which should be combined, but they’ll be pretty minor additions). Names to watch on the boys side are things like Roman I think, which is on a ridiculously fast increase.

There is a list somewhere where similar names are combined - which obviously pushes names like Evie right up (Evie/ Evelyn etc).

That's because there are different ways of spelling it.
AFAIK there is only one way of spelling Oliver

I'm sure the Daily Mail has its Muhammad article ready to file.

Won't the top name be Muhammad?

Girls will probably be Sophia or Olivia, followed by a lot of Ella, Eva, Isla and Lily type names

Also I wouldn’t be surprised if Ottilie gets into the Top 100 for girls.

@ZoyaTheDestroyer yes but you'd need to do the same for all the Ollie and Ollys too!

Ollie for example is number 85 in the 2019 chart on its own.

I only know two baby girls born this year and they're both called Lyla, so I reckon that will turn up in the top 100 or so.

I'm so excited I read it every year but I'm 33 weeks pregnant this time so extra excited!!