Too Popular?

waves at dizzy

If our DB4 is a DD Isabella is top of our list, I don't know another one TBH well apart from Dizzy's.

Beautiful name

Oh golly, well I am really sorry to say this but I truly believe this is one of the most popular names of the last 6 or 7 years, and know about a hundred!!!!

I also thought the thread might be about this name before I opened it...sorry.

Fwiw it was on my favourites list when I was a girl - but it fell off after the first seven people i knew used it

It is a bit too popular in London, I think, depends where you are though.

Can I interest you in the name Amabel (nn Amy) which I personally love?

NotGrownupEnough, our Isabella will be 7 in July and we don't know another one - it depends on where you live and I'm fed up of hearing on here its too common and overused.

I was the name of my belived great aunt although she was known as Isa; my mothers middle name; my cousins middle name and my lovely aunt is Isabel so we wanted to use it for all those reasons - she is known as Ella though

its a beautiful name and if you love it then please use it as anything else will feel like second choice in comparison.

who cares if its popular - there is a reason its popular - its pretty!

hi, we are thinking or arabella, would you consider that maybe?

It doesn't bother me in the slightest. DD's name was number 9 in the top 10 which I didn't realise until we were sitting in the register office registering her birth.

Didn't bother me at all.

But then, I can't understand why it would bother anyone.

If popularity bothers you dont use it. There are plenty of other lovely names that are abit more off the beaten track. I have a popular name and think its rather dull being one of the crowd. My girls names are both outside the top 100 though when I was first pregnant my choices were Emily and Olivia which I quickly ditched as I realised they were everyone elses first choices too .

Isabella is a nice name but I know lots and lots of tiny Isabellas personally would avoid.

OP, how much does the popularity of a name bother you? Only you can answer that. Would it bother you that your DD is unlikely to be the only Isabella in her class? I've always hated having a popular name, but some people don't care.

I stayed away from anything that was in the top ten the year before no matter how much I loved it

I called my daughter Isabella and at the time I didn't know anyone whose child was called that. When I moved to Surrey for a year, I kept bumping into Isobel's, Isabelle's and Isabella's! LOL

However I wouldn't change it for the world. It's a lovely name. But I don't shorten it to "Izzie" like most do

I think you shouldn't not use it, just because you know a few, if you like it, I say go with it. You've still got time to change your mind if something else comes to mind in the months ahead