Some recent baby names (2010)

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For those of you who like to see how popular names have been recently, here are names from the Bonny Baby competition in a local newspaper from the Midlands.

0-9 months:

5x Riley

3x Oliver/Ollie, Charles/Charlie,

Similar grouping: 2x Lily-Rose + Lola-Rose + Lola

2x Archie, Caitlin/Kaitlyn, Cody-Lee/Codie-Leah, Jack, James, Emily, Harry, Lacey, Liam, Max, Olivia, Ruby/Ruby-Lou, Tyler-Lee/Tyler-Jay, Kelsey/Kelsi-Lee

And singles of: Aimee, Alesha, Alana, Benjamin, Cassidy, Corey, Connie, Chloe, Drayden, Devon, Ethan, Elijah, Erin, Francesca, Florence, Freya, Grace, Huntleigh, Iris, Isla, Jenson, Jake, Katrina, Kara, Kyra-Jay, Kyla-Marie, Layla, Libby-Mae, Lydia, Leo, Levi, Logan, Lexi, Lucas, Maisie, Moses, Mason, Molly-Jane, Oscar, Oz, Poppy, Robert, Shaila, Sebastian, Sophie, Scarlett, Sian-Lily, Sydnay, Savannah, Tia, Tristan.

I have a friend with a Dolcie, but her partner is Italian so that might explain the spelling?

The bonnie baby competition where I live was full of children saddled with equally ridiculous names. Most of the girls names were hyphenated with May/mae/mai on the end, which I just don't get. Lexi-may seemed to be a favourie. God awful name and that was one of the better ones. I'm not sure what planet some people are on sometimes.

God help the poor teachers in a few years time when every child is called one of four or five names, all hyphenated, in various permutations with an eye-watering variety of desperate spellings.

I used to be sniffy about 'boring' names like Catherine and Rachel and Emma, but I'm starting cling on to them nostalgically, like a lifebuoys in a particularly bad storm. If someone told me their baby had been named Elizabeth or Laura now, I'd probably burst into tear of relief!

There's some corkers there, but the names in my local newspaper's (South London Press)cute baby contest piss all over these!

well you can all sod off because my second daughter is actually Ellie Mae (not hypenated though) Ellie is short for Elinor and Mae after a great aunt of mine.

I hate all this snobbishness about names grrrr.

Oh and I have a degree, so I'm not a 'thick chav'

Some cracking names in there - Oz? Just Oz?

my daughter is Rileigh and like sheep i'm not a thick chav either. Each to their own with names. What one likes another may hate

I know an Ellie-May.... but spelled Elle-Mai.... I keep having to resist the urge to ask the mother 'You realise the E should be silent right?' >

Different spellings are fine as long as you don't get angry having to correct people for the rest of your life..as a friend of mine does!

ShakingScarecrow: when they next have the competition, please do post....

[WorzselMummage: I think BungKoy may have been ethnically appropriate, as I remember that child had a SE Asian apprearance].

I know a little girl called Ella-Daisy!

ellie

Poor old Elle-May is going to spend her whole life having this conversation:

Elle-May Smith next please

It's Ellie-May actually.

Is it? I'm so sorry - it's been spelt Elle-May here.

Let me see? No, that's correct. E.L.L.E. Ellie.

Erm...so, there's no 'i' in it then?

No

Bu it's not prnounced Elle?
How, um...novel.

Dzejdyn is pronounced Jayden :-D His Daddy is Polish so we chose an English name, spelt with the Polish alphabet. A little different i know but it suits him so well :-) And it means the world to his family in Poland too! x

Dzejdyn i assume is an eastern-european transcrption of Jayden. Because if a kid's birth certificate is from another country, they demand a language-suitable transcription.

sounds about right, those were the names I heard the most in 2010.. that's when my dd was born thank god her name isn't on the list lol, though saying that I love her name and hadn't really heard it at all then when she was born I started bloody hearing it everywhere!! that was annoying. I'm not from the midlands btw so I think it was just names being popular all over the country lol

How the hell would you pronounce Dzejdyn !

I guessed at Jayden.

Having spent the last few years as a suppl;y teacher I always start by appologising before I take the register that I might get names wrong.

TryLikingClarity

Or maybe parents with that name don't enter their child in to bonnie baby competitions

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