The new Sharon and Kevin?

Loads of charlottes and emilys here. Ihave a Charlotte .
I know loads of 13ish year old joshs and James

1347 according to American stats or bounty stats?

my sons name is abotu 400 according to american stats and bounty stats, but i wouldn't have a notion where his name ranked as the official stats don't go past 100 do they?

exactly sophiesmum, so choose a name which hasn't moved too much (from the lower end of the top 100)

But there is no way why a name that is currently outside the top 100 or within 50 and 80 will not suddenly shoot up to first place - lots of currently 'trendy' names have done just that!

My ds's name was nr 1347 last year, so hopefully it won't shoot up within the top 10 soon .

i think that choosing something that has been a non-mover somewhere between 50 and a 80 is probably a good idea.
Lydia eg. it has hardly moved in 5 years. therefore, it fits in very well, and won't sound at all 'huh' but it won't wear itself out either. this is just an example by the way. i'd have to study the stats to come up with more names that have "remained stable" lol!

And Guiseppe Verdi - Joe Green

Not the same is it?

PMSL at the sounding cool to the Italian ear.

But then Giovanni Casanova sounds sexy to us but in English he'd have been called John Newhouse.

Having a chuckle at this thread .

Agree its hard to look into future to see which names will become ubiquitous. The book Freakanomics has a great piece on how names that start of as 'elite' get more and more popular as parents want to buy into elite name, name gets more popular and loses its appeal. Grace Kelly as Tracy Lord prime example. Up here in Scotland there are lots of Callum's, Jack's, Lewis's, Sophie's, Olivia's. All lovely and will define this era but their nursery tags are all Olivia R/Callum T etc. as there are so many of them

I'm bang smack in the middle of name choosing as am due DC2 next week. Its hard! I'm a Janine and know what its like to have an 'unusual' name (bloody annoying) especially as its pronounced 'nine' not 'neen' and as an adult and thanks to Eastenders have had to correct people all the time (cue eyes rolling and muttering of pretentious cow).

The only thing that really annoys me is people spelling names wrong - i.e. Jorja instead of Georgia - your DC is just going to have to correct people all their life and its a pain for them - I've been there!

Bit waffly there, sorry, huge pregnancy head on just now..

some italian motor bike racer (can't remember his name) called his kids tracey and kevin. they sound cool to an italian ear apparently.

ah right balloonSlayer, poor tracey got it in the neck twice!!

MaggieNollaig, I think it was actually Keith Waterhouse who started the "Sharon and Tracy" thing, it was his generic term for girls working in shops, IIRC.

Then there was "Birds of a Feather."

But Viz's Fat Slags are Sandra and Tracey.

if I'd called DS something poncey he would probably get beat up

She should refer to him as Alf then which is cool in my opinion. Or Alfred is even better.

That is bad though, to be made to feel embarrassed about your child's name. I don't think Alfie is chav, it's just a bit naff. Jayden, Jordon, Kayden, Mason, Tyler are chav. Alfie's too soft sounding to be so!

I have a friend who called her little boy Alfie and it was cool and unusual then (5 years ago). Now she is actually embarassed by it and always says, "His names Alfie, which is chavvy i know, but it wasn't when he was born, honest!", whenever asked her son's name. Feel for her, though also think she shouldn't care!

some names are common because they are just nice names, Sharon and Kevin are just naff names and always will be

Its not the popularity of a name that makes it the Sharon/Kevin of our time, but the type of person it is bestowed upon... (Not that i give a toss about chav/common/posh etc but just stating what is a generally perceived fact).

Therefore, the top Sharon OR Kevin name now would probably be Jordan (for boy or girl).

I don't think Ruby will be the next Sharon either. Nor will Grace, Joshua, Finn, Evie or Archie. They may date, but not in a naff way. They'll date more like Sarah, Marie, Claire, Emma, Mark, Stephen, Andrew, Robert, Peter etc

Archie/Liam/Finn

Ellie/Evie/Grace

No, not Ruby! I don't have a Ruby by the way, but it's a lovely name in my opinion. I agree it's very popular and is definitely a name of the noughties, but I don't think it will be seen in the same light as Kevin, Sharon and Tracey in years to come

sharon and tracey as a name only became a liability post-viz

up til then, i suppose people might have registered, 'another sharon, there are posher names' but pre-viz, i don't think it was a stigma.

it'll be the same for all the alfies, rubies etc etc... it will entirely depend on who in the media or public eye turns a name into a laughing stock.

catherine tate made lauren a bit embarrassing (sorry to mums of laurens). but if some wannabe abi titmuss type comes on the scene and she happens to be called Eloise or Imogen, it might (might) tarnish those names slightly.

It is just so hard to see into the future I think

Alfie and Jayden

Ellie and Madison

bellisima, i've been questioning why i was so determined to find unusual names for my children. Well, outside the top 100 anyway. I didn't want tat in card shops to bear the name I chose for my children.

This year i bought christmas tree baubles with the names of my nieces and nephews, and i just wished and wished and wished that i could buy some for my own children.

i got some made at a craft fair though...

Ruby and Alfie.

But, it won't matter so much in 30 years. People use more names now, so no ONE name will have to take the abuse.

I would have hated to have been called Sharon or Tracey but my parents weren't very imaginative with names. I could have been.