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

[LouisevilleLlama]

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?

Women my age: Emma, Gemma, Emily, Claire, Sarah, Kath/Cath, Liz, Nicola, Zoe, Rosie, Victoria, Helen.

Men my age: Chris, Rob, Mike, Dave,Tom, Tim, Richard, Nick, James, Andrew.

Little girls I know: Scarlett, Martha, Edie, Alina, Ella, Matilda, Phoebe, Ruby, Josie, Hettie, Millie, Dorothy, Anouska, Florence, Olivia, Claudia, Amber.

Little boys I know: Rufus, Hugo, Edward, Magnus, Arthur, Frankie, Gabriel, Oscar, Atticus, Theo, Louis, Freddie, Leo, Corbin, Henry, Bobby, Charlie, Cassius.

Don't think I've ever seen my sons name on a baby name thread on here!

altkat maybe he's the other boy with your sons name

Most of the teenagers we know are called James, Tom, Molly or Alex.

Annabelle
Augustin
Abigail
Ayla
Alexandra
Anoushka
Athena
Aria
Archie
Andrew
Aurora
Amélie
Bradley
Bert
Beatrix
Benjamin
Chloe
Charlotte
Daniel
David
Daniella
Eve
Elodie
Emilie
Edward
Flynn
Fedde
Fem
Gideon
Grace
Grant
Harry
Henry
Harrison
Irma
Iona
Isla
Kari
Kai
Laughlan
Leigh-Ann
Lucas
Lewis
Leo
Lou (girl)
Maker
Mason
Muriel
Madison
Morris
Niamh
Nathan
Oliver
Quentin
Patrick
Penelope
Peter
Ruben
Ruark
Richard
Stijn
Simon
Sterre
Sven
Tritan
Tobias
Toby

Meant to add I also know a Tarquin in my age group.

My son is now nearly 12 and these stew the names I can remember being duplicated in his nursery and school classes:
Oscar
James
Oliver
Joshua
Harry
Jack (and Jake)
Luke/Luca/Lucas
Liam
Tallulah
Isabella/Isabel
Mia
Eve/Eva
Lily
Lola
Finn/Finlay/Fingal

Daughter is nearly 3. Her contemporaries:
Amelia (lots)
Mya/Mia
Jayden
Freddie
Alfie
Frankie
Evie
Ella/Ellie
Ava
(Hers are skewed as she goes to a nursery attached to a Gospel church and lots of the children are also parishioners with fantastic biblical names like Tziporah, Malachi etc)

I'm nearly 43 and most popular names for my age were Emma, Joanne/Joanna, Nicola, Sarah and Jenny/Jennifer.
Every other boy was Mark or Jason.

I work in a law firm now and people seem to mainly have traditional names that don't "date". There is a joke that if you are female and not called Helen, Catherine, Alice or Elizabeth you will never get to qualify! (I have one of those names!)

I went to quite a posh school and here are some names I've never come across again:
Sorrel
Tryphena
Veroushka
November
St John
Cassius
Quintus (the fifth child in the family)

My mum is age 71 and says all her friends are Gill, Susan and Barbara.

If I was going to have more children (I'm not) they would be called Jasper and Isadora.

I know a Sorrel and she went to a normal comprehensive. I love the name Jasper! But I had a cat named that so I could never use it.

If we'd have had biological kids I always wanted to give them Irish names like Niamh and Colm, but we adopted so we didn't. I love their names though.

They're common English names but spelled with that Slavic influence, which I love as it puts a bit of a spin on them having fairly common names.

I have a soft spot for the name Jasper as well, but it reminds me of Jasper Carrott so I had to settle for using it for the cat. Same with Dougal, which has forever been ruined by Father Ted! I imagine it's why DP gets funny looks when he's shouting Dougal in the park at the dog.

I went to a very non-posh comp and have worked in some, Honey, and have come across two Sorrels and two Tryphenas (weird, I know!).

Babies and toddlers I know:
Evie
Mia
Oliver
Blake
Arlo
Willow
Alison
Faye
Jacob
Imogen
Hugo
Maisie
Francesco
Isiah
Abigail

All men my age are either Josh or Tom and all women are Amy or Hannah/Anna (I'm 29)

@Windtempress

Hedd is a welsh name. It means peace. It's the name of one of the most famous Welsh poets ever, Hedd Wyn. Why the 'good grief?' Just because a name isn't typically English doesn't mean it should be scoffed at!

Elevated by Father Ted, elevated.
Father Ted is a sublime comedy - it can only improve whatever is associated with it.

42 the answer the life the universe and everything.

My name is Jasper

Popular names amongst my peers are: (I'm born '94)
Courtney
Shannon
Stephanie
Georgia
Abbey
Grace
Paige
Samantha
Kate
Sophie (literally tonnes of them)
Lydia
Ashlee
Kimberley
Hannah
Brittany
Jamie

Boys:
Kyle
James
Ben
Bradley
Nathan
Sam
Daniel
Hayden
Adam
Connor
Alex
Jordan
Callum
Ryan
Joshua

Phoebe
Kate
Daisy
Bosco
Willem (sp?)
Jeanie
Laura
Elizabeth
Prunella
Oscar
Dominic
Nate
Lily
Dashel
Jack
Andrew
Julia

I went to school in Ireland all through the 70s, with the tail end of the 60s and the early 80s tacked on at either end.

Classmates' names included:
Niamh
Grainne
Bairbre
Emer/Eimear
Suzanne
Christine
Sharon
Linda
Lorraine
Nicola
Yvonne
Caroline
Jacqueline
Anne-Marie
Karen/Karin
Laura
Brenda
Denise
Colette
Geraldine
Josephine
Siobhan
Valerie
Michelle
Miriam
Noeleen
Helena

The DCs' had a huge number of girls named
Kathryn (spelled like that)
Grace
Emily
Sarah
Rachel

and boys named:
Michael
Thomas
Henry
Luke
Liam
Kevin

Still on page one. But can I congratulate mamagee for having the dedication to alphabetise. Others could learn from it!

Babies born I know and children in my DS' class would be:

Charlie
Jack
Freddie
Yaqub
Tristan
Evelyn
Harry
Sophie
Grace
William
Ralph
Annie
Adam
Logan
Gethin
Betsy
Albert
Robyn
Lucia
Polly
Abigail
Georgia
Ellijah
Joey
Eva
Ava
Flynn
Joey
Ellie
Heidi
Melissa
Jake
Horatio
Pixie (2 in Ds' class!)
Oscar
Oliver
Ben
Lauren

I'll tell you something I have noticed - you can tell which kids have parents who were teenagers or older when Friends came out.

I teach sooo many Ross, Rachels and Joeys. It's too common to be a coincidence!

@BabychamSocilalist and @Dixiestamp
More Sorrels and Tryphenas out there - I never knew. Names do seem to become declasse over time . I can remember a steep surge in Beatrice and Eugenie after the princesses were born. Before those names were considered posh/regal/old fashioned.
Probably going to totally out myself here but my son is called Oscar, which is now as common as muck, but when I was a child it was thought of as unusual and a bit "eccentric".
My daughter is Arabella which my husband was reserved about as he thought it was too posh sounding. Maybe it used to be (a bit aristocratic) But we now know a few other Arabellas who are from "ordinary" families like us.

Childrens under 5 I know of...

Harley
Woody
Bertram goes by Bertie
Robin
James
Harvey
Archie
Harry
William
Evie
Arlo
Ezra

Macey
Layla
Bethany
Lucy
Ava
Kadella (goes by Kadie)
Sia (see-uh)
Lizzie and Becky (twins, no ful names)
Bella

Common children's names in my circle (as in we know multiples)

All co-incidentally abbreviated by the children and their peers from the names given by their parents:

Ben
Josh
Tom
Sam
Will

Bella
Lottie
Livvie
Katy
Ellie
Milly
Hattie

A few that haven't been abbreviated:
Jack
Harry
Liam
Gracie
Molly
Holly

Common names of kids when I was growing up:

Sharon
Tracy
Karen
Lisa
Melanie
Joanne
Claire
Sue
Linda
Angie
Debbie

Andy
Steve
Richard
Carl
Craig
Paul
Mike
John
Pete
Phil
Gary
Tim

Young children I know:

Boys
Eric
Sebastian
Addison
Wesley
Noah
Samuel
Frederick
Walter
Dustin
Oliver
Jack
Zac
Samuel
Kai
Bruce
Oscar
Beau
Elias
Zeben
Joshua
Barnaby
Maximus
Hugo
Lincoln
Dylan
Owen
George
Charlie

Girls
Elodie
Faraday
Juno
Katherine
Lily
Elizabeth
Olive
Violet
Rosie
Emma
Nancy
Melissa
Polly
Bethan
Etta
Holly
Mazy