To ask your name? or those of people around you generally

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Or at least tell me if it's just me that when I look at the baby names boards and I'd say a good number of names I've never heard of and TBH I find some strange and wonder if it's a wind up? So I'm wondering if it's just me perhaps in my own little boring bubble?

LionKing no that's not the point of my thread and I don't see how reading it you could get that idea, if anything I was thinking it may be taken the opposite way with the examples shown. The point of the thread was to find out essentially names of general children and adults that posters know, as when I look at baby names I rarely see names that I'm used to seeing I'm real life and wondering if I'm just just in my own bubble or not. I also said I'm not making judgements on the names as no doubt there will be people with those names or have used those names and it's personal preference

I'm not from the UK so maybe not helpful to you but here are some of my friends' children (6 months - 5ish):

Brody
Calvin
Samuel
Rowan
Sebastian
Parker
Nicholas
Noah
Ethan
Joshua
Ryan
Finn

Lily
Ava x 3
Avery
Ella
Emily
Daphne
Audrey
Molly
Lucy
Addison
Rose
Willow
Mia x 2
Eva
Sophia
Elizabeth
Briar

Was THE Judas not Judas Iscariot? (Which is actually a decent enough sounding name, imho!)

My name is sophie Amelia ( I was supposed to be called
Amelia Mary .... but my family discovered his nan he was naming me after was daisy mary so they changed their minds x

They're fuck

Well, I don't know that many children, cos mine's only a baby, but my peers growing up were called things like:
Amy
Rachel
Sarah
Sophie
Lucy
Claire
Laura
Alice
Louise
Matthew
James
Andrew
Robert
Stephen
Daniel
David
Philip
Christopher
Thomas
(Now, of course, they're all Matt, Andy, Chris, Dave, Phil, Steve, Tom ...)

I missed out multitudinous Evies, Maisies and Ellas as well! Lucas and George crop up often too.

I live in the Southern USA and out of the 140 children in my DC's year at school there are no names as odd as the ones daily suggested on the Baby Names board

There you go, I always think the names suggested on the baby names board are incredibly boring.

Small boys I know:

Alfie
Alex
Chace
Mohammed
Caspar
Theo
Leo
Cameron
Lewis
Arran
Finn
Finlay
Noah
Barnaby
Sebastian

Girls:

Eilidh
Olive
Wilma
Matilda
Maggie
Carey
Chloe
Sophie
Sophie
Jessica

Really Atenco? Personally I haven't quite got over the poster who wanted to call her child Huckleberry.

I can't really see the point in asking about adults names as children (at least in the UK) aren't generally called after their parents or given names from their parents generations. I work with a Michelle for example, I can't see that being a popular choice for another 20 years at least. Plus 30-50 years ago names were rather more homogeneous than they are now (for a variety of reasons).

Ava is the most popular name among babies I know, with Evie and Indie coming up close behind.

For boys it's a more even mix. I know a couple of Noahs, I know a couple of Olivers, I know a couple of Finleys and Finns.

And the most popular names where I was growing up (rural NSW, Australia) were Madeleine and Amelia for girls (out of my grade of 70 people, we had 5 Maddies), and Joshua, Matthew and Benjamin for boys.

You're thinking Judas Maccabeus, High (AKA Judah Maccabee). Led the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid Empire.

WomanScorned Jude Thaddeus is the Saint of difficult/impossible situations. I must live in a Christian area because I know two and they were both born in difficult circumstances, hence the name.

Traditional around here:
Thomas (very popular)
Ben
Sam
Daniel
Jonathan
Louis
Jacob
Jack
Declan
Max
Niko
Dominic
Carl
Nate
Ethan
Xavier
Freddie
Jensen
Adam
Finlay
Otis
Theo
Alexander
Callum
William
Edward
Jake

Emily
Lily
Annabel(v popular)
Scarlett
Emma
Sophie
Sophia
Olivia
Hannah
Tilly
Sylvie
Olive
Mia
Emily
Jessica
Isabel
Isabella
Basically all the kids that live around here, and DS's Friends that I can think of at the moment . . . I have 3 boys hence why I know more boys names. (My DS's names are all in list).
Folk around tend to favour more traditional names with no crazy spellings. Makes it easy when it comes to writing birthday cards! I, on the other hand seem to have about 15 friends called Nicola, Nic, Nikki, Nicole etc. Also several Sarah, Natalie, Rebecca, Emma. Showing my age haha.

Names I hear a lot in young children are:

Sophie
Sophia
Evie
Ava
India
Amelia/Millie
Isabella
Maya
Seven
Carys
Megan
Charlotte/Lottie
Molly

Oscar
Oliver
Matthew
Benjamin
Arthur
Henry
Harry
Joshua
Noah
Jacob
Osian
Isaac
Jack

I know lots of
Isabelle/Isabella/Isobels
Sophie/Sophia
Ella/Ellie/Eleanor

Popular boys names here seems to be Ollie, Callum, Aiden

woman 45/55?? Can I add Mandy, Susan and Sharon

My dc's friends all seem to be called Evie, Milly, Thomas, Elise, Jacob, Jack, Lewis, Sonny, Isaac, Grace and Gracie.

The only time I've heard the names mentioned on here in real life was when I had given birth to dd. In the postnatal ward the family in the bed next to me had a baby dd they'd called Ottily and an older dd called Isanthe (-sp?).

My DD is friends with:
Faith
Charlotte
Niamh
Kal'el
Evie
Logan
Manvir
Honey
Anthony
Samuel

My friends:
Saul
Franc
Karen
Rebecca
Emma
Marc
Rashmina

Any use?

I tend to think the baby board names are a little too....unique for most people.

Most of the recent baby names in my area:
Evie
Lola
Millie
Olivia
Amelia
Sophie
Quinn
Rebecca
Harrison
Bradley
James
Callum
Jonathan
Louis

The most unusual one is Tiana Kandi. And moat responses to that name were negative.

James
Harry
Xavier
Nathan
Oscar
Alex

Tayla
Sophie
Isabelle
Amelia
Neve (spelt that way)
Mabel
Rose

Casper
Archie
Aroen
Edia
Tulip
Olaf
Amelia
Rafe
Luca
Arthur

Girls: Primrose, Amelia, Matilda, Ivy, Edith (several), Isabella, Ruby-Jean, Florence(lots), Harper, lots of variations on Mia/Maya, Aoife, Lucy, Grace, Eilidh, Aiobheann, Eithne.

Boys: Alfie, Jack (millions), Ted, Luke, Conor, Daniel, Lorcan, Luca, Lachlan, Thomas (quite a few), Ryu, Kevin, Euan, Albie, Patrick, Samuel, Nathan, Charlie.