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Is willow gonna get mega popular?

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ceeceeanne · 20/10/2011 12:48

Thought I'd come up with a really unused beautiful name but am starting to worry that Willow is actually getting popular. I've never heard of one except a couple of celeb kids so do people know any or of any potential Willows and where in the uk is it on the rise? Can't find any reliable statistics. It wouldn't necessarily put me off but don't want four in the class!

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rachel1970 · 20/10/2011 12:51

Have a look at last year's ONS list - it shows how often every name was used - then you'll know how many little ones are around already.

If you really don't want it to get too popular, then don't mention it to everyone (like mumsnet Grin) and hope that many others won't like it as much as you.

ElectricSoftParade · 20/10/2011 12:51

I know one Willow at the DCs school. There are about 300 pupils.

It's a lovely name. :)

Fixture · 20/10/2011 12:57

I only know of one. Very nice name but I don't think it is getting faddy.

tammytoby · 20/10/2011 12:58

There is no way of telling imo. If everyone suddenly decides to name their girl Willow, then yes, it will get faddy. But you can't tell ahead of time, can you?

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ceeceeanne · 20/10/2011 13:00

I named my daughter daisy twelve years ago and it was so unique but loads now and I don't mind a bit so maybe overthinking but I just get put off if names are common!

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LaTristesse · 20/10/2011 14:34

I know of 2 under 18 months. We're in the South East.

MamaLazarou · 20/10/2011 15:19

I know two, aged 2 and 3. I live in a small town in Kent.

"I named my daughter daisy twelve years ago and it was so unique but loads now"

According to NameWizard, Daisy has actually fallen in popularity since the late 1990s.

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ceeceeanne · 20/10/2011 16:24

Is namewizard American? Even if it is I can't imagine there are less daisys now when it's in top twenty names or something and never used to be

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ceeceeanne · 20/10/2011 16:25

Is winston with Solomon too much?

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dangalf · 20/10/2011 17:59

I like it - tis my daughter's middle name. Didn't go for it as a first as thought it may be too hippyish...

dangalf · 20/10/2011 18:00

Winston and Solomon is too much imo

BloodyGoreyHairyKnickers · 20/10/2011 18:07

I bloody well hope not but I have heard quite a few different mums calling for their 'Willow's' in shops and malls in recent years.
My Dd is Willow, but I didn't wonder if it was/would be popular, I just loved it and as one of my friends said to me 'if ever a name truly suited a child, it's your Dd' which is very true, but I couldn't imagine a short, plump girl being called Willow...

pinkappleby · 20/10/2011 18:09

I know of 2, aged 3 and 4, SOuth East. I think it's a risky one.

EdithWeston · 20/10/2011 18:11

This must be a generational thing - I see Willow as a rather passé, dated and hippyish name.

BedatHogwarts · 20/10/2011 18:12

I'd have thought if it was going to become uber-popular, it would have done so at the height of the 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' era. I've never met any. Except one cat which is now dead.

EdithWeston · 20/10/2011 18:16

It s a fashionable name in the early 1970s, and again after the film in 1988.

BloodyGoreyHairyKnickers · 20/10/2011 18:16

South east here too.

wannaBe · 20/10/2011 18:18

god I hope not.

Unless it's kittens you're naming. Wink

fuckityfuckfuckfuck · 20/10/2011 18:18

It can't seriously have got more popular after the film?? Willow is a dude.

BloodyGoreyHairyKnickers · 20/10/2011 18:20

I never met a Willow in the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's or 00's...I saw a young 20 something woman on the TV around 2005 named Willow, so before Dd was born. She had a double barrelled surname and an accent to match.

I have to admit that I don't like calling her out loud if other people are around...don't know why.

EdithWeston · 20/10/2011 18:22

But it was already been established as a girls name for a couple of decades by then - and it just somehow put it into people's consciousness.

SlinkingOutsideInSocks · 20/10/2011 18:22

Never met any. Doesn't Sarah Palin have a Willow? I really don't think it's about to become the next Isabel/le/la, if that's what you're worried about.

BloodyGoreyHairyKnickers · 20/10/2011 18:23

Will Smith has a Willow too...

TonksmarriedaWerewolf · 20/10/2011 18:23

I like Willow, was on our list for DS!

I did once meet a really plump scruffy tomboy called Portia Hmm :o

BloodyGoreyHairyKnickers · 20/10/2011 18:24

And I'd like to bet Portia really didn't suit her name, did it?