to be upset that my dc names are SO common?

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We named our children almost 10 years ago and over 7 years ago.

The names we chose are now no.1 and no.2 on this years "Most common names list" or whatever they call it.

I hate being so ... so ... there's no other word for it ... COMMON!!

There are 5 of DD3's name (2009 is her actual birth year), 12 of DD2's name and 13 of DD1's name. I'm much more common with mine being in the 140's.

MAKSYMILIAN

iwish they would show the names with only one person but understand why they dont

there is a child in one of my dc's classes that i am dying to share

i am so not ajudgey person but this name has my judgey hat firmy in place....

If you named your children ten years ago then they will be slightly ahead of the curve and probably don't have THAT many others in their class throughout school/uni

I know so many children with the following names:

Oliver
Olivia
Ava
Eva
William
Archie

Just an observation

I have a very unusual foreign name. My son has an English name outside the top 10 and my dd has a very unusual foreign name from my cultural background. Both chosen because I like them. As long as u like that's all that matters

I feel sorry for the 55 Pheobes whose parents/the registrar couldn't spell!

putthekettleon...hahaha. There is a few on there which would be a lot higher if it wasnt for the different spellings. My friend called her boy Finleigh about 4 years ago and she is gutted as so many kids have that name and she is hanging on to the fact it is 'spelt differently my way'...still the same name though!

I don't know that many babies with the same names actually. I know one Grace, two Daniels, one Thomas, one Olivia, one Alex etc.

My dd was born in 2009 and looking at the stats there were 95 babies given the same name in 2009 and that makes her name number 438. My sister has three sons, two of whom have names in the top ten and one just outside. My choice of name is no better or worse (or weirder) than her's. Names are really personal - and I mean to the chooser as well as to the person being named.

Oh, and in terms of spelling we were both really boring - in fact no one in my family has a particularly unusual or exciting name

Sometimes it's the first encounter with a name which sears it into the memory.

For me, Chloe is a budgie's name. :o

I don't dislike the name at all, it's just the associations for me.

Maybe they are not common ,just very popular amongst people with taste.I am quite pleased that Ds name made it into the top 100 for the first time.I chose it to honour my beloved late grandfather but was worried it was too old fashioned and uncommon.

catholicatheist

we called our ds Finlay nearly four years ago and were DEVASTATED when a cartoon came out called finley the fire engine

his middle name is robert so we just call him Finbob

Variations on my middle name are now right near the top of the name charts. I got there first you gits 30 odd years ago - I called dibs!

Seriously though - doesn't bother me, names come and go - a few years ago, the name my nan loathed her entire life, Phoebe, was really in fashion. I'd rather have a common name than a constant battle for people to spell an uncommon one right (my first name is the less common of two spelling variants and no one ever gets it right unprompted).

wideratthehips..ah gosh that possibly accounts for the sudden rise. I had never really come across any before but I hear it a lot now.

i hate it if there is another girl with the same name as DD when she goes to school. i like that DD has an original name, and want all future dcs to be the only x in their class. however i hate alternative spellings, which is weird as my name is an "alternative", (one i believe my parents made up whilst drunk) i hate how everyone asks how to pronounce/spell my name so thats probably why i think you should stick to normal spelling.

if that's all gets yer goat.life is sweet

My dd has the most popular name that there has been for several years now. In fact, the year she was born it became the most popular name. I think, if I had known it would be sooooo popular I wouldn't have named her it though I do love the name and wanted it to be my dd name since I was a teenager! However, she is the only one in her year at school of 60 so I think although names can be very popular nationally, it still does't mean everywhere is swarming with kids of the same name

I have wanted to call my DD Sophie since I was about 8. When I was pg I became really worried as it was such a popular name, I thought she would be one of umpteen Sophies in her class.

I had an old work colleague called Sophia and thought this was a lovely alternative until I took DS to Rhymetime at the library and encountered two six month old Sophias in a group of 20 kids. It just shows you can't win, as my sister said call your child the name you want, regardless of what anyone else has called their child, this is YOUR choice.

I am pg again and have been inspired by some of the names on this thread- K8TEE is simply fabulous .

My youngest son has a reasonably common name but, in his first primary school of over 450 children, he was the only one of that name. He then moved to a small primary in a class of 12, and there were 2 others with the same name!

My ds2 was in hospital recently with a child called KT yes that was her full first name her parents were so proud

dd nearly 9 is in top 3 names ds is in top 25 neither were heard of when we chose them but we just accept it now

think good to keep perspective, like freerangeeggs said, the pool of names is so huge now that the most popular names are not as ubiquitous as they used to be.

Also if a name experiences just a burst of popularity it might not be that common in the population, though would still be common in the dc's age group and might be more likely to date. I'd love to know the incidence of names in the general population not just new births, anyone seen that data anywhere? I guess i tmus be available from census data but I haven't seen it published.

My name ages me by about 10 years It was incredibly popular in the 60s.

OP, in the future your DCs names will make them seem younger than they are.

Names go in and out of fashion. I had the same experience as the OP. When I named my DD her name was very unpopular. It hadn't featured inside the top 100 names since the 1930s and I got some very funny looks from people when I toild them what her name was; it was as if they thought I'd been very mean giving her such an awful old-fashiopned name - but I thought it was lovely and still do. All through DD's childhood we never met any other girls her age with the same name. She was always the only one in her entire school with that name.

Now there are loads of them!

Guess what her name is?