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Underused Names

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HalcyonDaze · 15/02/2010 12:54

What names would you expect to be more popular than they actually are? For example, I think Juliet is very pretty but was quite shocked when I saw it's rating in the official stats.

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MaggieMaeve · 18/02/2010 18:49

I knew a Spanish Yolanda once Foxytocin! let me tell you about her .... (only jokin')

MummyTumble · 18/02/2010 18:15

I also think Juliet, Julia and Louisa are gorgeous and massively underused..

Can't get DH to agree with me - perhaps its the men causing the problems

LC200 · 18/02/2010 18:07

Helen, Antonia, Paul, Simon.

Agree re Rachel and Joy - we considered Joy for ds if he'd been a girl.

twinmumplus1inthetum · 18/02/2010 14:49

I have a Juliet, we only told one person it was on our shortlist and had a negative reaction, so just never mentioned it again until she and her sis were born. By her own invention it is sometimes shortened to Juju.
We are yet to meet another. Only annoying thing is that sometimes people misspell it.
TLC ignore your mum if you like it!

darcymum · 18/02/2010 10:35

Whats your name then CloudDragon? Or is that your real name?

CloudDragon · 18/02/2010 09:27

My name is very unusal (I've only met about 2 in my life), when looking last night at the names of 2009 stats I found it funny that there were about 30 babies of my name last year in the UK

but that there were less of my best friend from school called Jane, which was so common when we were little.

foxytocin · 18/02/2010 08:46

Some people may say that about me Otter.

Every so often I meet people and they say, 'Oh! you are only the 2nd Yolanda I've met' and tell me all about the 'first' Yolanda.

Now I have nearly outed myself will have to namechange or demand in an ever so posh way to get this thread deleted.

serinBrightside · 17/02/2010 23:31

Rosalind
Teresa
Georgianna
Erica

and Victor and Peter for boys.

janeite · 17/02/2010 22:42

I wasn't accusing you of making it up! Tbh I have only ever seen Yolande with an 'e' once (except googling it to check it was real) and that was in a children's book when I was about 9. I wish I knew what the book was.

OtterInaSkoda · 17/02/2010 19:39

It's real, honest! I didn't make it up! I knew a rather posh and very beautiful Yolanda years ago. She must be mid-30s by now I reckon. Foxy - are you posh and extraordinarily pretty?

janeite · 17/02/2010 19:22

Otter - Miranda was our first name choice for dd1 but it didn't sound right with the fact that dp's surname begins with a vowel, so it kind of slurred together. Lovely name though - you have v good taste!

Have never seen Yolande with an 'a' ending.

KAEKAE · 17/02/2010 18:43

Flora and Alistair...I like both, do not know any and never hear of any!

theminniebobble · 17/02/2010 17:41

I LOVE the name Sebastian. But DH really didn't like it so it was a no. Am still gutted.

My friend has just called her baby Annabel. It's a lovely name- I haven't heard one negative reaction to it yet.

pranma · 17/02/2010 17:33

I love Dorothy and know one baby one with a sister Florence and a brother Toby

foxytocin · 17/02/2010 17:26

"Yolanda is in my top 5."

You called?

MaggieMaeve · 17/02/2010 16:22

I can see Diana becoming more popular in the next ten years. Her death is still relatively recently and most women who are having children remember it, and her. In another ten years, the name will seem more usable, to people who were children when she died. I can see a lot of grandparents wincing at that name choice though. It's not dreadful though! I'm surprised more people haven't been brave enough. Perhaps it's not just Diana, but the fact that it starts with DIE

OtterInaSkoda · 17/02/2010 16:17

Janeite - Yolanda is in my top 5.

You don't seem to get many Mirandas, either. I know one, that's it.

LadyOfTheFlowers · 17/02/2010 15:36

OneBadBaby - How old is your Lydia and what NNs have come about?

DorotheaPlenticlew · 17/02/2010 14:22

Esther. Not sure I'd use it myself (no real reason, just not my fave) but it's a good name and I am surprised it seems to be so rare.

101damnations · 17/02/2010 14:16

Estelle is a name you never hear anywhere.I think it is quite pretty.

houseworkhater · 17/02/2010 12:18

I always thought Diana would be more popular.
David too.

TakeLovingChances · 17/02/2010 11:10

MaggieMaeve thanks for the advice re ignoring what my mum said about the name Juliet! She talked me out of using the name Nathaniel for any potential DS, so she can't have everything her own way!

darcymum · 17/02/2010 09:54

My MIL made a good point about Jezebel. She said the child might grow up and be very shy and be mortified by such a name, or love it and try to live up to it.

I still like it, maybe I should change my name to it?

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