Most popular names at primary schools?

[Ballymolly]

What's the most popular boys' and girls' name in your kid's class/school currently?

Seems like 90% of kids in primary schools in my area are called Olivia and Harry.

I love the sound of the name, but hate the "heaven backwards" thing.
I would find a different spelling if I ever used it (which I wont, I'm way past the having babies stage of life lol).

I have had two variations on Susan in my last class.

@BatildaBII I knew someone with a dog called Oscar and it used to get shortened to Oscy/Osky or just Osc/Osk. I imagine the same would happen for a child!

@BatildaBII we've got an Oscar and yes he does get shortened to Osky and Oz....however, he does have a preference and actually likes his full name. If I had my time again, I would spell it Oskar...but that's because we have a Germanic connection and it's a shame we didn't go for it at the time.

Primary teacher for 18 years in Kent and Surrey and never taught a Florence! 😆

I am in South Wales - primary age I would say as a whole lots of Theo, Leo, George, Archie for boys, and for girls Isla, Olivia, Ella, Imogen.

Only duplicates in my daughter's year are Max and Lily.

Isla, Ella, Evie, Lucy, Ariana. Plus -may/mae.

Leo, Theo, Charlie, Freddie, Sebastian.

I’m in Sydney and my 11 year old has 170 kids in his year. For the purposes of this thread I had a look at the names and the duplicates we have are:
Harry x5
james x2
Sam x3
Jake x 4
Lachlan x 6
Alex x5
Oscar x3
Joshua x3

Ella x2
Maddie x2
Zoe x2
Claire x3
Amy x3

Isaac, Jacob, Jack, Oscar, Harrison

There are 3 in my youngests class and at least 2 in every other year in the school

The only names repeated in my DC’s classes are Theo and Indie. Across the school, and at their various clubs etc., I see lots of the following:

Boys: Freddie, Henry, Leo, Louis, Thomas, Callum, Charlie
Girls: Eva, Jessica, Rosa, Emily

I know 4 Scarlett’s, 3 Chloes, 3 Amelia’s in my DS’s school year.

DS had two Sophies in his primary class, DD has two Sophies and a Sophia in hers

Olivia, the most common girls name, was used by 0.55% parents. Noah by 0.75%.

So statistically, in a class of 30, there shouldn't be any repeats. Its interesting how there are always clumps of names.

More unusual duplicates departing from recent trends in the primary schools I visit through work are

girls:
Havana x 3
Sorelle x 2
Navani x 3
Nami / Namie x 3 (pronounced Narh Mee)

boys:
Sawyer x 2
Rhett x 3iiu
Caleb, Kaleb and Kayleb
Danilo x 2
Magnus x 2

Jack
Harry

Bea
Ava

Interesting - I've never heard of any of those girls' names.

Seen a few Calebs and daughter had a Kaleb in her class.

I hadn’t heard of them either, there may be pop culture influence somewhere, or just local connections meaning people hear the name.

No nicknames for any Oscars I’ve known!

The only unique name in my DC's class is Mackenzie and she really suits her name. The rest of the kids have names which are shared by at least one other child! The name which has the most kids to it, is Harry! There's 7 in one class!

Scotland here. Boys names are often surnames and we have:

Campbell
Murray
Reid
Baird
Innes
Strachan
Kerr

That's at school. At football there are multiple Haydens and assorted Jacobs, Ollies and Masons.

No Jacks that I'm aware of in the entire year group (born 2010).

My son has one of the above names 😊

My son is Harry (now in his 30s) and when he was born it was considered quite odd! (I remember one woman laughing at me because it was so "old fashioned".) He was the only one in his school and has never met another one of his age. Obviously there's famous ones like Harry Kane.

I love how naming fashions change, it's so interesting.

My husband has two of them! 😂

@MelodyMalone It definitely is

Use of apostrophes in plurals in this manner is acceptable for clarity eg Mind your P's and Q's (not Ps and Qs), I'm at 6's and 7's (not 6s and 7s) and here - There are lots of Arlo's - not, there are lots of Arlos.

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