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What names would you like to see more of?

56 replies

Skiesa · 12/12/2025 15:04

We’ve been in the currently naming trend of ‘Ada, Eva, Eve, Evie, Mia, Maya, Miley, Layla, Lila, Isla, Arlo, Finley, Jude, Otis, Oakley, Luca, Theo’ for quite a while now and I’m anticipating that we may have a change of trends again soon.

What names would you love to see be used more?

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Lemonlimonade · 03/01/2026 13:58

Please no more Theo, Harry, Evie, Lily type names. You may as well be called Boy or Girl - so unmemorable!

TheaBrandt1 · 03/01/2026 12:32

Honor

TheaBrandt1 · 03/01/2026 12:25

Traditional “proper” names yet weirdly underused see below. If I never hear Grace/ Amelia / Olivia / Eve/ Isobel / Lily again I won’t be sorry. Sooooo bored of those names

Mary
Susannah
Miranda
Hinir

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 03/01/2026 12:24

HollyGolightly4 · 16/12/2025 19:28

Desdemona means ill-fated so I can't see that one 🤣

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I named my very beautiful cat Desdemona.

It suited her, bless her. She was an odd one.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 03/01/2026 12:22

On a thread about boys names, I was called a racist, and told to go away and ‘paint a roundabout’.

They insisted that I was talking about English names, which wasn’t what i was saying at all.

But you, ladies…you’re my people! 🫡

timoteigirl · 03/01/2026 12:16

Who invented the names Cadeus, Vanessa and Nerissa? I thought they are existing names not made up. Or is this similar as Shakespeare-invented names?

Firebird83 · 03/01/2026 12:08

Biblical names - Solomon, Miriam, Esther, Abraham
Names like Peter, John, Edmund, Laurence, Helena, Susanna, Caroline

user1492757084 · 28/12/2025 06:53

Positive meanings like Christmas, peace, natural spaces, light, bauble colour, mover of men ..

Turlough
Glenn
Cliff
Craig
Eolann

Christobel
Ellinor
Frith
Clare
Emerald

BeFairOliveBear · 27/12/2025 23:05

Steven, Helen, Clare, Ellen, Simon, Jane, Ruth

SabrinaThwaite · 16/12/2025 23:52

We’ve had the older generation names revival (Edith, Arthur, Ivy, Elsie etc), so how about a 60s revival?

Angela
Paula
Kathryn
Claire
Jane
Sonia
Lorraine

Richard
Andrew
David
Kevin
Darren

NormasArse · 16/12/2025 23:00

Jeremy and Peter.

Jennifer and Lucinda.

Calliopespa · 16/12/2025 22:46

Old classics that tend to get overlooked in favour of the more popular classics George, Edward, Henry, James.

So Edmond, Harold, Edgar, Peter, John and even Charles (as just Charles rather than the more ubiquitous Charlie.)

EmotionallyWeird · 16/12/2025 20:23

Alexandrine · 14/12/2025 01:42

Names that don’t follow the 2 syllable, ending in “ee”, “ah” or “oh” trend (these seem to account for about three quarters of the names at DS primary).

And the resurgence of “classic” names that have fallen out of favour now somewhat - like John, Robert, Philip, Peter, Mark, Stephen, Matthew, Christopher, Caroline, Philippa, Julia, Susanna, Teresa, Ruth, Catherine, Georgina, Claire etc

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I like all of those and would like to add Jane. I love Jane, especially as a first name - it's been a bit over-used as a middle name. I used to know a Jane Frances which I thought was a lovely combination.

Pozz · 16/12/2025 19:34

What about Imogen
Samantha
Jessica
Rachael
Benjamin
Daniel
Jezza

HollyGolightly4 · 16/12/2025 19:28

OnTheDockoftheBayLeaf · 16/12/2025 12:53

Adding:

Jane

Shakespearean names like Cressida, Desdemona.

Literary names invented by British authors like Cadenus, Vanessa, Nerissa.

Desdemona means ill-fated so I can't see that one 🤣

ladyamy · 16/12/2025 17:50

Andrew, David, Robert, James, Caroline, Emma, Amy, Emily

OnTheDockoftheBayLeaf · 16/12/2025 12:53

Adding:

Jane

Shakespearean names like Cressida, Desdemona.

Literary names invented by British authors like Cadenus, Vanessa, Nerissa.

OnTheDockoftheBayLeaf · 16/12/2025 11:19

Dated names like Nigel, Pauline, Kay, Laura and Gary.

I'm not sure what to call this category but names you would imagine on an American glamour puss like Veronica, Tiffany, Bianca, Vivienne.

Anglo-Saxon names like Audrey, Oswald, Edmund, Edith.

Uncommon biblical names like Enoch, Baraka, Junia.

Vaguelyclassical · 16/12/2025 02:46

Simple long-lasting names. No cutesy diminutives as legal names. No imperialist parents prescribing in advance nicknames (these should arise organically from the child's own life).--

Anne
Clare
Jane
Helen
John
Paul
Peter
Stephen

ChocolateCinderToffee · 16/12/2025 01:22

Longer names and no diminutives.

DoreensLemonDrizzle · 14/12/2025 02:25

Dave
Steve
John
Matthew
Michael

Jean
Marie
Jennifer
Lynn
Janice
Maureen
Adele
Cheryl
Sandra

ExperiencedContractor · 14/12/2025 02:21

AspiringChatBot · 12/12/2025 17:28

Enough of Rosie, Millie, Alfie, and Archie! I'd like to see a revival of traditional medieval British diminutives:

Annot (Anna, Anne)
Atkin (Adam)
Bib, Tib (Isabella)
Bunty (Margaret)
Caddie (Charles, Charlotte, Caroline)
Catkin (Catherine)
Dandy (Andrew)
Dawkin (David)
Dobbin (Robert)
Doddie (George)
Dovie (Joseph, Josephine)
Hawkin (Henry)
Jowett (Julia)
Lovey (Louis, Louisa, Louise)
Mause (Maria, Mary)
Nob (Robert)
Noll (Oliver, Olivia)
Peemser (James)
Pidcock (Peter)
Potkin (Philip)
Rauchie (Rachel)
Sawny (Alexander, Alexandra)
Shoosie (Susan, Susannah, Suzanne)
Shuggo (Hugh)
Steenie (Stephen, Steven)
Suphy (Sophia, Sophie)
Tetsy (Elizabeth)
Tillot (Matilda)
Tipkin (Theodore)
Tizzie, Tossie (Theresa)
Tomkin (Thomas)
Wilkin (William)

Love these!
I actually had an Aunt Tets but she was Ethel rather than Elizabeth.

Alexandrine · 14/12/2025 01:42

Names that don’t follow the 2 syllable, ending in “ee”, “ah” or “oh” trend (these seem to account for about three quarters of the names at DS primary).

And the resurgence of “classic” names that have fallen out of favour now somewhat - like John, Robert, Philip, Peter, Mark, Stephen, Matthew, Christopher, Caroline, Philippa, Julia, Susanna, Teresa, Ruth, Catherine, Georgina, Claire etc

Joeninety · 13/12/2025 19:31

Joe is a lovely name.

mathanxiety · 13/12/2025 19:29

I agree with many of the names here - apart from Nob and Pidcock, which are a lot to inflict on a child.

Some names from my childhood in Ireland in the 60s and 70s would be welcome:
Barbara
Caroline
Edel
Joan
Miriam
Denise
Anne-Marie
Mary-Clare
Anne-Louise
Christine
Paula
Laura
Margaret
Elizabeth
Judith
Susan
Helen
Pauline
Mary
Rachel
Ruth
Sonia
Louise
Rosemary

Irish names:
Mairead
Eithne
Eimear

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