Are your DC names top 100 in popularity?

[Charlavail]

DD - Yes but not in the top 50
DS - Nope but it surprises me as it's definitely not usual.

My daughters name ranks 1431. And my son's is 140. Both have gained in popularity in the last few years. They have attended three schools altogether and no one in all of the schools has had either name.
They are not weird or unusual just uncommon.

Yep. It confuses me when people panic about giving their kid a name that will ‘date’. It’s like, when your kid is 50, people will take one look at them and know their age anyway, so what does the name matter.

Dds name was top 5 when she was born just scrapes in to top 50 now she is 15, eldest name was top 10 when they were born in 1994 not even in top 100 now. Youngest sons name is more common in Wales than England its not in the top 100 although I worked in youngest 2s primary school and there were 3 boys with ds unusual name and only 2 girls with dds top 10 name

Too 50 here. I’m fine with it, it’s popular for a reason.

Yes - in the top 10 boys names (& in the top 5 dog's names ) interestingly he never met anyone with the same name throughout primary and secondary school but now at uni his best mate has the same name !

DS’s name is just outside top 20 and always hovers about there. It’s a classic name that I’ve always loved.

DD’s is just within the top 100, used to be more popular but has fallen out of use a bit, I don’t know any others under 40

DS is around top 50 but there are 2 variant spellings so its no doubt more popular when taking that into account. DD is well well outside the top 100 but is definitely a name you would have heard of.

We're in NI, there has never been three babies with DD2's name born here.

There's another one in our town, same age, may well end up at same school. There's no winning!

DS1 - just outside of top 100
DS2 - about 500
DD - hasn't made it into the ONS listing since the year she was born when there were 3 of them

Both my DSs names are in the top 100. DS1's has fallen a bit; DS2's actual name is quite low down but his abbreviated form is very popular.

My name was in the top 10 in the 80s but now barely makes the top 500, I think - so it will date but there's not a lot I can do about it! I think my kids' ones are less likely to drop completely out of fashion

DD's name didn't even make the top 300 the year she was born. Just scraped the top 250 in the latest set of stats.

In age order

DD yes now but wasn't when we chose it 14 years ago
DS yes now but not 11 years ago
DD nope not even top 2000
DS no, more than 1000

DD - no
DS - just within top 100

Both DD’s and DS’s names have grown in popularity since we chose them but both still outside the top 100. They are still names everyone knows / has heard before though.

DD1 no, not even top 900 apparently .
Dd2 and Dd3 yes, top 20 both.
Interestingly DD1 was the only one with another in her class!

How do you check where the name is at the moment?

Neither in top 100 - my DS name is very rarely used but there are now 2 girls with DD's name in her school.

I love that my DC names are still 'unfashionable'. My name suddenly got quite popular for girls a few years ago and it irrationally upset me 😂

No idea. I couldn't care less.

Ds is 261
Dd is 320

I love them having names that aren't really popular.

DS - close to 3000th but it's a name most people would recognise.

One was #124 the year he was born, the other was #8. There's been little difference in peers of the same in the same setting between them. There's been a couple of others in the school but not the same class.

They fall into the category of names that don't date heavily.

Dc1's name was ranked no. 3 and dc2's name was ranked at no. 16 their birth years. Both v popular names. Both hated on here!

Neither child in top 40. Firstly as we both had "plan/classic names" (ie 4 in small class groups) but also to reflect that with the passage of time we could reclaim routes away from the need to anglicise names

None of my 3 DDs are in the top 100. They're not odd names but classics, just uncommon. I chose them that way on purpose as I'm a teacher and I don't want to have any negative associations with my kids names!

Interestingly a nickname of one of my girls is in the top 100 which I would have said was more unusual that my other 2 DDs actual names.

My middle and youngest names have been top 100 in their lifetimes (13 and 8) but not consistently year on year.

Huh?