What names have you noticed getting more popular in 2010?

[bytheMoonlight]

What do you think will be the popular names of 2010?

Of course, loobylu - but you'll be disappointed as it's very tradtional, ordinary, (popular even) Joseph (known as Joe mostly). My DH picked it (to honour his Father) and he has a preference for the traditional.

Even this time round, I'd go for something like Lucien/Monty/Sholto/Titus/Rufus but he's not having any of it, sadly. I do find boys' names particularly tricky though.

We definitely didn't!!

All my DH says (apart from 'No' to most of my suggestions) is, 'He won't be going to private school you know. He has the awkward teenage years to get through'. He's right, of course. Though DH would pick James if I let him (I won't).

lulu- I think Joseph is a great name!

I have much more traditional taste with boy's names too! I also think that a boy may not thank you for having a very unusual name :)

(btw, I like Rufus a lot but I think it may also explode in popularity as lots of people seems to like it).

No - I think you're right. Tradtional names are good for boys.

DH is called William - there are loads now, but when we were at school, it was a very old-fashiond name.

And I think you're right about Rufus. It's a balance, isn't it? Picking a name that everyone's heard of, but one that's not over-used. It's so hard! :)

I heard quite a few newborns called Harrison here lately

I found that dd's name was given to 12 babies in 2008.

That's 12.

She's not called anything weird, she's called Judith.

I love Judith! Have you read 'The Dusty Answer' Rosamond Lehman (sp)? If not, please do, made me fall in love with the name Judith. Also a Judith in a Rosamund Pilcher I think, one of those that was adapted for TV with Joanna Lumley as the mother, Loveday's mother. Not the Shell Seekers, something else?

It's definitely hard! DH and I have totally different tastes and he likes v few names which has always made things tricky!

btw- I think Tess is lovely and Patrick too. Benedict is nice but a bit Catholic sounding (which may or may not apply) :)

I married into a Catholic family and I'm sure that they would think I'd chosen it because of the Pope!

And the other name I think is becoming more popular (around these parts at least) is 'John' and for girls, there seems to be a few named 'Juliette' (once you get past the Evies and Graces).

I have a Florence born 2006, nn Flo, am gutted it's getting so popular

Was quite unusual when she was born (am in Rural Suffolk tho so prob way behind the times...)

My DS arrived christmas day last year, we've called him Gabriel, don't know of any others just yet.

However was surprised to see both names are number 97 in 2009 statistics for baby names. Maybe he won't be the only Gabe for much longer...

So hard to choose something original without going too far!

Judith is a great name, fits the criteria of being uncommon without being unusual. Hester is another.

You do get over your "unusual" name becoming popular! My Isabella was born in 1999 and I chose it because I didn't want yet another Megan, Chloe or Emily (all lovely names but were the equivalent of Ellie/Evie today.) It's still unusual in her age group but there are apparently a lot of little Isabellas out there - not here though! I did a little better with Susannah and Philippa, they don't seem to be hitting the top ten.

Yes, it's the classic but slightly out of fashion if you like which sound so great when the child is a teenager and later.

For example I had a boyfriend Tom (Thomas), now around 42 in 1985 or so he was one of the only 16 year old Toms in his year or area!

I had a friend Imogen who now would be around 40, again only the one in the school at the time. Julia was another name like this.

So if you want an uncommon but great name find a name that was seen like Julia, Thomas and Imogen would have been seen around 1970. Question is what are they?

I've got a few ideas.

Ethan, Harry, Jacob and Arlo all getting more popular for boys I think

Definately Florence for girls -and yet more Ellas, Rubys, Graces etc still coming thick and fast

I don't mind my name choices being in the top hundred, but I would be upset if they ended up in the top ten.

Where you are makes a huge difference though. I have a Fred, which is everywhere in some places. Here in Wales people were slightly disbelieving when I said him name. One women even said "No really, what IS his name?"

Tell us Cortina, tell us!! (But you probably would rather keep them to yourself - and that's understandable).

You see, I thought we'd done that with 'Nancy' and then look what happened.

Actually, going back to 'Judith' - I love 'Judy' (I mentioned this to DH only the other day) - I think that's a good example of what you're talking about - never been extremely popular, not likely to be either.

I'm liking 'Julia', too now you've mentioned it... Oh, I'm so suggestable.

My sister just had a Quentin. It's been quite popular in France for a while (top 10) but seems to be getting more common in the UK.

Otherwise, Clara and Florence and other 'old lady' names seem to be gaining popularity.

Surely though it is things like Sienna, Tyler, Evie etc that are going to really date, not names that are in the 300 + in the popularity lists, or the biblical names. I know there are aa lot of Joshuas, but are they really going to 'date' in the same way that Caiden and Tyler will?

Agreed, Tummy, but there will be a few classics and bible names in the mix that will also date, question is which?

Not that it matters, and they won't date as badly, but I find it interesting. Which 'classics' will be the Sarah, Emma, Matthew and Steven/Stephen of the early to mid 1970s?

Cortina, no, we got the idea from reading an autobiography of a Shuttle astronaut who was a good friend of Judith Resnick who died in the Challenger crash. My brother also had a t-shirt with the biblical Judith on it: I had to explain the story to him just before I had dd so I think the name was on my mind anyway.

Isn't Judith the name Virgina Woolf gave Shakespeare's sister?

Marieclaire and Fiona are due for a revival. I've met two baby Mary's recently. Personally I like Eileen and hope that revives.