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which names would you like to see more frequently on newborns?

64 replies

BigBreastedPheasant · 10/11/2023 21:33

I will start with Gary.

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ScruffMuffin · 25/03/2024 22:30

For the PP who mentioned Gaylord... A few years ago, I taught a boy who had it as a middle name. He was a tiny one-pound-something premature baby, and his parents gave him an incredibly big-sounding, grand name to grow into. Along the lines of Bartholomew Gaylord Double-Barrelled Surname. I can't imagine looking at a 1lb premie and thinking of Bartholomew Gaylord!!

EdithGrantham · 25/03/2024 21:05

Blackcatowner44 · 10/11/2023 23:47

I'm a never ending story fan and would love to meet a little Atreyu one day...not happened yet though.

I knew a baby Spike a few years ago and I thought that was the cutest name ever.

I know of an Atreyu!

Jk987 · 25/03/2024 21:02

toastofthetown · 10/11/2023 22:18

Longer more fanciful names, especially for boys. Aurelian, Aloysius, Casimir, Cornelius, Gideon, Lysander, Percival etc.

Nooooooo!

goneveryquiet · 25/03/2024 21:02

Peter
Mary
John

gould · 25/03/2024 21:01

Rodney

wafflesmgee · 25/03/2024 21:00

Gregory

Nathan

Emma

35andThriving · 25/03/2024 20:53

I do like Helen a lot!

Sameratdifferenthat · 09/03/2024 21:17

John
Michael
Peter
Paul
Mark

Joan
Jean
Jane
Alice
Helen

Aviee · 09/03/2024 21:05

Gloria and Michael.

HahaBooHiss · 09/03/2024 21:02

A few of my classmates mums were called Dawn. I think that’s a beautiful name ❤️

IncompleteSenten · 09/03/2024 19:48

I reckon Beryl's about due to come back into fashion. Another ten years maybe and we'll start seeing little Beryls about.

TedWilson · 09/03/2024 19:47

RickyGervaislovesdogs · 09/03/2024 19:13

Melissa

I came on to say this!

All2Well · 09/03/2024 19:46

My favourite names are the classics as well as biblical. To be honest I'd
rather they were less popular as I wouldn't want my child to be one of five in a class.

I was looking at some of the 1996 ONS names recently and think that some of the names that were on their way down back then were really nice and it's a pity they don't get used, as they are dated in a bad way now...

Stephanie
Danielle
Lauren
Shannon
Brooke
Cody
Kerrianne
Kelly
Anne Marie
Bobbie/Jaime/Georgie/a for a girl
Samantha
Stacey
Simone
Sasha
Tia
Jessica
Reanne
Deanne

Daryl
Benjamin
Jay
Brett
Christian
Jesse
Dean
Glen

JamSandle · 09/03/2024 19:46

Delilah
Tallulah

SIacker · 09/03/2024 19:42

Dick, Fanny and Gaylord

whatisforteamum · 09/03/2024 19:38

Keith
Seriously though Edward,
Fiona
Michelle
Alison

JenniferandJuniper · 09/03/2024 19:30

Jean
Florence
Rebecca
Katharine
Matthew
Robert

RickyGervaislovesdogs · 09/03/2024 19:13

Melissa

FH27 · 09/03/2024 19:11

Jane

ChocolateCinderToffee · 07/03/2024 21:52

Ondine, Cecily, Sabine, Phoebe, Aude, Sidonie, Rosalba, Marina.

Tancred, Geoffrey, Norbert, Julius.

Mairzydotes · 07/03/2024 17:14

I'm surprised there aren't more babies called Joyce. It would also make a nice middle name.

TempsPerdu · 07/03/2024 17:04

For girls, anything that’s stronger and more substantial, and less frilly/cutesy/twee than most of the current crop of popular names. At the moment it feels like most parents of girls are terrified of vowels!

Lots of underused Shakespearean names also deserve a revival imo:
Miranda
Marina
Rosalind
Helena
Celia
Juliet (think this one’s already making a comeback)

For boys, lots of the New Testament names already mentioned (Simon, Peter, Christopher, Matthew) plus some of the Old English and medieval names: Edmund, Edgar, Ambrose etc.

More Scandi/Nordic style names for both sexes: Frida, Thora, Asta, Magnus, Gustav, Stellan, Soren.

Moreteaandchocolate · 07/03/2024 07:38

Strawberrycheesecake7 · 07/03/2024 01:02

My baby’s name is Matthew and I don’t really hear that used on children very often anymore. I don’t know why because I think it’s a lovely name.

Matthew is lovely :)

Strawberrycheesecake7 · 07/03/2024 01:02

My baby’s name is Matthew and I don’t really hear that used on children very often anymore. I don’t know why because I think it’s a lovely name.

Moreteaandchocolate · 06/03/2024 22:14

Claire, Susie, Louisa, Mary, Jane, Jennifer, Wendy

Philip, Michael, John, Nicholas, Christopher, Peter