Most common names in your DCs school

its a moments work though to check the name isn’t top of the top ten. When I was first pregnant our first choices were Emily and Olivia - two of the dullest names possible. Thankfully I realised this just before giving birth and upped my game.

Exactly. It's so easy to check how popular names are. While you can't avoid a name becoming popular, you can certainly avoid those that are already in the top 10 or top 100.

We also considered Emily in the early 2000s but it had already become too popular by then. Our dc name was actually only used 30 times in their birth year.

its a moments work though to check the name isn’t top of the top ten. When I was first pregnant our first choices were Emily and Olivia - two of the dullest names possible. Thankfully I realised this just before giving birth and upped my game.

Girls = Grace, Lucy and Maddie
Boys = James, Joe and Harry

My DDs name has appeared a few times too and one of the reasons we picked it was because it was fairly unusual.

If it’s any help I had a very unusual name (in Scotland at least, it’s Welsh so has more popularity there) and I hated it growing up. And as another pp said when popular names were popular back in the day it meant you knew 100 Sarah’s but now it’s just a few here and there of whatever name.

DD is in secondary school now, most common name in her year (Y9) is Megan, there’s about 8 of them - one per form at least. For boys it’s either Thomas or William.
In DD’s primary there were 3 Diya in her class, and 2 Jake.

Thank you @Dragonred x

Ah Sophie is beautiful and I think is a name that will age well! I only know 2 Sophie’s, both adults! It definitely doesn’t feel overused to me like some of the current top 10.

Oh thank you @ZoyaTheDestroyer

Yes, the meaning is a good one, hopefully will suit her as she grows up!

Sophie is a beautiful, classic name, and I have always loved the meaning

Ava
Evie
Grace

Daniel
Harry

@Dragonred @RedToothBrush @Dassams Thank you, you’ve made me feel a bit better. I guess one advantage of a very common name is that it’s not outing to give it! It’s Sophie. I know it’s not top ten but if you also think of all the Sophias…she does have a less commonly used middle name.

There are actually two children with the same first and surname at our school. Thankfully they have different middle names, otherwise it would be tricky to identify them.

Isaac, Harvey, Noah, Ella, Lily, Imogen are all the multiples in my 5year old's class. I'm a secondary teacher and one year I had a class with about 5 Elliots, an Ellis, several Ellies and an Ella! It was very confusing.

Reuben is the popular spelling that's why.
Rueben is for those who can't and get their vowels mixed up.

Freddie
Hugo
Oscar
Finn
Ava
Evie
Emily
Isabelle

My parents gave me my name 'to be different'. Just like everyone else my age. That's my parents all over though.

I hate my name. Always have.

DS says he likes his name so I hope that continues.

DS is in 'rent a class' of predictably.

We have the compulsory Olivers, Eva/Ava, Sophia, Harry, George, Isaac, Max, Lily, James, Ethan. All the girls look identical too.

Its slightly depressing tbh.

One of my HV made a joke about a child with an out there name whilst I was pregnant. Having an unusual name is not the done thing in my corner of middle class suburbia.

As someone who had a 'blend in' name, I wouldn't do it for DS. I was one of 5 in a class of 15 for one of my a levels.

Oops, nobody with the same name in their year. They never had anyone with their name in their classes at primary school either. There are so many names around now that the popular ones are not ubiquitous. I said uptrend that I have an unusual name and have always hated it.

Both my DDs names appear multiple times on this thread and every thread about popular names. I'm glad I chose names that so many people like. They love their names. They are at secondary school now and one of them has one other person with the same name in her year (ironically they are good friends) and the other has nobody with

My dd’s name appears many times on this thread

Does she have a more unusual middle name that she could use if it ever bothers her?

What’s your dd’s name? Don’t feel down about it. These ‘common’ names being mentioned won’t be anywhere near as popular as the popular names when we were at school. Number 1 girls name 2021 was Olivia and there were 3649. In the 90’s the number 1 name would have been given to more like 10,000 babies. So a lot less are being given the top names now.

At one point a third of the girls in dds class were named a variant of Eve. Very confusing apart from anything else and not great for the child. Perfectly nice name but not that great never understand why so many choose the same few names.

My dd’s name appears many times on this thread and I feel so down about it. I wanted to pick an unusual name but somehow didn’t manage to and I have severe name regret.

Olivia
Max
Isla

Heidi, Primrose and Bear? Really?It would be great to know where in the country these schools are!

Our school (outer London) was mainly populated by kids called Ben, Leo, Ava and Isabelle.