Is Ruby too common now?

Those baby name popular lists are so useful. We were all set to use Olivia then realised at the last minute that everyone else was using it so changed. Relieved as at my first mother and baby class there were 4 Olivias...

popular names scotland 2007 ruby 26

top 100 girls names 2003-207 england & wales [[http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files1/stats/pop-names-07-t1.pdf top 100 boys & girls 2007 scotland

so yes ruby popular in England

BUT i wouldn't disbar a name due to popularity.but if trying to avoid at school RubyA,RubyB,RubyC then maybe not for you

There were lots of Rubys in North London - now moved to the west country and there are even more of them. Nice name but sadly done to death. But then having names that are popular bothers me and doesnt bother others so if you dont mind go for it.

ruby is a lovely name but, I think, far too many of them now. I know people say 'does it matter' but I think if you like a name then it's because it has a special quality to you - if suddenly every third child is called that then the 'mystique' of that name disappears and it becomes an also-ran.

I really like Lola - it is becoming popular and I just don't get the supposed association with anything sexual.

I like the sound Ruby but it is popular.

Ruth Beatrice with Ruby as a nn would be more my style I think.

Lola/Lila very slebby. Trinny and kate M have Lilas.

if you must, Paloma or Eloise on the birth cert.

tis popular, but lovely name

I have a Ruby and I absolutely love it and don't care if there are hundreds around. Every time I call her name I love the way it sounds. We don't have any round here and I am in West London. I think all the popular girls names are lovely and sometimes that makes them all the more classic. If you love it, you choose it. But damn those Kaiser chiefs

Every time I go to a beach or shopping mall I just hear people screaming Olivia!

I named my DD Olivia and found out a week later it was the most common name in Britain. Wish I had done some research first!

Depends on what you mean by "too" common I suppose. My niece is Ruby and she is the only one I know. My DD is Grace and again, the only one I have met. I have also never met an Emily despite it being the most popular name for about 5 years running!

Not sure that helps really, apart from to say its pot luck really. I wouldn't have thought Oliver was that popular yet 3 out of the 5 boys in my post natal group share that name.

I think you just have to think about what you like tbh.

Rubystheboss and Rusmum- when we told DS we were going to have a new baby he said it would be twins and we'd call them Max and Ruby!!

Funny thing is My sister is also pregnant and had she been having a boy she'd have called him Max, and if i have a girl will be Ruby... how strange!! Tho sis is having a girl.

We have ruby as our girls name for beany.... it was the only girls name we both liked... goes with the middle name we will be using for a girl, and the only other girls name we have liked is now DD's name. However popular it is i haven't heard of one round here yet.... and we didn't know how popular it was until after we'd decided on it.... only 12 days till we find out the sex too, so i'm kinda set on the name... Though hopefully my instincts are right and its a boy, my boys name is lurvley, and i sooooo wanna use it!!

You could name her Luella or Louise and call her Lola?

In East London every 4th girl seems to be named Ruby

rubytheboss My Ru born 20.5.04 .
I always feel when i am telling her off i sund like kaiser chiefs, ruby, ruby....

i know about max and ruby. If dd2 had been a boy was going to be max LOL

We have such good taste!!!

rusmum
My Ruby was born 4.7.2004, when was yours?
I know what you mean about the Kaiser Cheifs, but dd thinks the song is all about her, so all is well! .
Glad, too, that we named her that. Tho my ds, who is 6yo, is called Max, and apparently there is a kids programme called 'Max n Ruby', about 2 rabbits, so everyone thinks we named them after that!!

Tricky isn't it. I know a couple who chose Tallulah thinking it was pretty and rather original. When she got to nursery there were 3 others!!!

I have A RUBY who is 4.5. when i picked it i didnt know of any. then thanks i think to kaiser cheifs there are loads. DD2 13 weeks is called Rose, i dont know of many at the mo but who knows???

Go with what you like, i still love Ruby, despite there being lots

I have a Ruby, who is 4. She has just started school, and is the only Ruby there. In fact, whn we named her it was an uncommon name, and many hinted that it was an old ladys name . It has become more common now, although I still don't personally know another. Lola is also a lovely name, and would be my first choice if I had another little girl. .

i like Ruby, its very pretty and ive never met a horrid one ,however just avoid the top 10 names because they are sooo repetative ,no matter how pretty.

Think of the nicest girl you knew of in school, what was she called? 10 to1 it wont be common and you will be very pro it.
Gillian was the nicest girl i knew at school go for that!

Lulu - Yes, I think that's the irony. Here we are are, struggling to find original names for our children, only to find that there are four Parthenopes in the school, whereas if we'd called her Susan she'd have been the only one!

I know sisters called Ruby and Lola

Both lovely names I think but VERY popular atm

Oh and I have an Anne and a Susan up the family tree too but the next generation down. So my daughter will probably revive their names....