Baby name difficulties - there all taken!

I’d recommend staying away from the top 100 names (even 200), as you can hear them all around. If you have kids in school you know. There is even 2 of each, in my DD’s there are 2 Eva’s and 2 Chloe’s for ex. Called little Eva and big Eva until teachers told them to use their full names instead, like Eva Johnson (made up) instead of Eva J, a mouthful.

some if not most of the names on your list are overused.

better to have a name that you don’t fancy as much as the uk top 1 (Olivia I think), then be one of the 2 or 3 Olivia’s in a class. It will grow with your child.

I have a popular name (for my time) and it hasn’t been a class or group where there wasn’t another girl with my name… I’d rather had an obscure name. Never mind my parents also have a me another popular name as middle name…

Lottie
Henry

Archie
Arnie
Artie
Callum
Ethan
Eiran
Toby

Iona
Eira (pronounced Eye-ra)
Emilia
Ella
Rhian/ Rhiannon

Our surname is very similar to yours (it means 'fish' in old English and some Scandi languages). We've had to choose names with hard consonants to mitigate the soft F and S sounds.

Our son is Gilbert but we also had on our list:

Edmond
Harold
Jory
Jago
Malcolm

Marion
Mariella
Hero
Eleni
Eleri
Cordelia
Claudia
Juno

How about

eva
elsa
anya
clara
sadie
sienna
hallie
bonnie

reggie
ronnie
tommy
vinnie
charlie
sonny
harvey
lenny
jesse
marley
ollie
teddy

23rd April is St George's Day.
Georgina Fisher
George Fisher

Not Coral Fisher as suggested by another poster. And not Pearl either! 😂

Abigail Fisher
Clara Fisher
Natalie Fisher
Stephanie Fisher
Jasmine Fisher

Arthur Fisher
Samuel Fisher
Daniel Fisher
Nathaniel Fisher
Luke Fisher

Some people will say I lay and others Islay Islay should have read Iz-lay

Could you use Islay Fisherinstead?
As far as I know it's pronounced the same as Isla but it looks different at least and is a legit spelling.
@caitlinrose , it might look different, but it sounds the same and nearly everyone would spell it wrongly. Some people will say I lay and others Islay, so not a good idea.

@Thisisnotmyname2 , Sophie Fisher doesn't sound great, but Phoebe Fisher sounds ok

Yeah, I wouldn’t use anything ending in an A sound or E for that matter.

Suggestions:

Kate Fisher
Isobel Fisher
Lillian Fisher
Clare Fisher
Beth Fisher

Rex Fisher
Jeremy Fisher
Thomas Fisher
William Fisher
Callum Fisher

Tia
Calla
Kara

Noah
Harris

Eliza Fisher sounds nice.

How about Aila? Looks different but sounds like Eye-la?

I know it looks the same written down, but I thought the actress pronounced it Iz-la rather than Isle-a? I think it's totally useable.

Sophie instead of Sofia?

Fiona Fisher

Ashley or Archie?

Edie (Edith) Fisher
Jamie Fisher

Stella
Cecilia
Miranda
Serena
Sabrina
Claudia
Adela
Iona
Esther
Susannah
Frances
Zoe
Chloe
Phoebe
Felicity

Robert nn Robbie (rather than Bobby)
Arnold nn Arnie
Ernest nn Ernie
Alexander nn Sandy
William nn Billy
Daniel nn Danny
Thomas nn Tommy
James nn Jamie
Sydney
Stanley
Zachary
Barnaby nn Barney
Rory
Toby
Francis / Franklin nn Frankie

Lauren Fisher

Eloise Fisher

Leo Fisher

Woody Fisher (Edward)

I'd generally avoid the eeee or ie sound along with fisher. Woody is the exception obviously 😊

They aren’t taken, as such, but you are choosing very popular, very high up the charts, very 2022 names, in the most part. If you’re happy for your Dc to have a popular name, that’s cool, just use one you love. Because with names that high up the lists, they’ll most likely know several others by school age anyway.

If you wanted to choose something that’s currently less popular, say outside the top 500 or 1,000, you’d have more freedom to chose something not already ‘taken’.

Eg Isla (3rd most popular in England and Wales in 2021 with more than 2,500 little Islas born) could become Alisa (only 69 born) or Althea, well outside the top 1,000.

Olivia is lovely, and very popular, first place in 2021 with more than 3,500 born. Others with similar sounds are Ophelia, outside the top 100, Evelina, outside the top 500, Olympia, outside the top 1,000.

Same for boys, Archie, Albie, Albert, Arthur, type of names are all very high up.
Ashley, Aubrey, Arnold, not so high (top 500-700)
Edmund/Eddy, Matthias/Matty, Indiana/Indie, also far less popular.

trying out a few different thoughts:

Rosie Fisher
Alannah Fisher
Hannah Fisher
Audrey Fisher
Marilyn Fisher
Adrianna Fishe
Odette Fisher
Amanda Fisher
Gabrielle Fisher
Marianne Fisher
Joy Fisher
Emily Fisher
Julie Fisher
Courtney Fisher

Bertie Fisher
Patrick Fisher
Rupert Fisher
Bart Fisher
Freddie Fisher
Barnie Fisher

Agree that Isla and Olivia are sooooo popular that she’ll be Isla F or Olivia F. Especially if you use the filler middle name of Rose/Grace/May.

Isla is so popular she'd probably be known as Isla F. once she started school.

Coral Fisher
Laura Fisher
Laurel Fisher

Gulliver Fisher
Vincent Fisher
Joel Fisher

Could you use

Islay Fisher

instead?

As far as I know it's pronounced the same as Isla but it looks different at least and is a legit spelling.

I also don't think Isla Fisher is THAT famous.

Otherwise:

Lyra Fisher
Lila Fisher
Ayla Fisher
Ada Fisher
Eileen Fisher
Aileen Fisher
Alva Fisher
Maya Fisher

Oliver Fisher
Edward Fisher (called Teddy)
Ronald Fisher (called Ronnie)
Alfred Fisher

Ailsa
Alisa (Lisa)
Beatrice/Betris
Christabel, Christina
Eleni
Elodie
Eloise
Emily
Georgia
Laura, Lara
Lea(h)
Lydia
Maria, Mariah
Oona
Rosa, Rosalie
Sara
Selena
Serena
T(h)alia
Vanessa
Zoia/Zoya

Avery (could also work for a girl)
Cary
Cillian, Kilian
Eli (can also be short for Elias, Elijah, or even Eliot if you prefer)
Kai
Malachi
Ruairi/Rory
Zachary