What are the hip Londoners & jet set calling their 2012 babies?

[YummyMummybee]

Just wondering what the posh Londoners & jet setters are calling their new babies as these are always the names that trickle into the main stream in a few months. A friend of mine is a midwife in a private London hospital & she said the following are really gaining popularity

Boy

• Arlo

-Otto -Casper

Girls
-Fleur
-Ottolie(never heard this before!!!)
-Florence

She said in the upper class William, Edward still used commonly for boys as middle names. Charlotte, Isabella, Poppy for girls

Can you add anymore up & coming names?I'm sure there are plenty of threads like this I'm just too lazy to look!!!) Find it fascinating & I love the way high society types get away with names the majority of us find somewhat bizarre!!!

I predict (based on pregnant friends):

Florence
Carla
Josephine

Thaddeus
Quentin
Arthur

And I also predict that cutey typ names (Ellie, Evie, Archie, etc) will decline in popularity. More 'solid' names will become fashionable.

Thats what it looks like alright Tammytoby-it defo seems like the cutesey names have reached saturation! Another name that the 'in crowd' seem to be choosing is Albert(bertie) & Tobias(Toby).
Florence is the name du jour alright!!

I wouldn't know.

My mum has been checking the baby name announcements in The Telegraph every week, as she knows we're struggling with girls names. She has come up with:

Girls

Nesta
Elodie
Rosanna
Frances
Selina

Boys

Cosmo
Miles
Tobias
Barnabas

Not that we are having any of the above.

I am not impressed with Florence being so popular, it is the name of our DD to be, and was her Great Grandmothers name. It would have been her name if she was born 10 years ago as well iykwim?

Damn trendy names, not a fan!!

Florence would have been my girls name six years ago, I know how you feel 3boys.

I predict even more 'old lady' type names after Lily Allen's, Ethel, and Beyonce's, Blue boak Ivy.

I know - 3boysgirlontheway! We have decided on ours now & just double checking it wont be mentioned here lol!!! Florence is such a fab name-so timeless & will never date.
As Tammyboy pointed out the cute abbreviated name seem to be soooo 2011 lol!! I'm in Ireland shouldnotbethere & have been looking at our birth announcements here & classic Irish names are still reigning supreme within the Irish elite! Fab names out of the telegraph love Cosmo but would never be allowed:(

YummyMummybee I am in Ireland as well and I have everything crossed that the popularity of Florence won't cross the water. What do you think?

I think 'old fashoned' names are still rising in popularity:
Martha
Elsie
Edith
Violet
Arthur
Clement
Quentin
Sidney

I can also see people getting tired of the cutesy type names -Archie, Albie, Evie, Charlie, Ellie, etc.

We know a fair few trendsters, as DH works in a trednster industry

The hip Londoners I know - or know of -who have had babies in the last year or so:

Boys:
Benedict (we know of two)
Rufus
Sonny
Miles
Pip
Axel (yes, really)
Cash (yes, ^really)
Frankie
Nate
Ralph
Herbie (I quite like this - woman at work called her child this)

Girls:
Clemency
Joni
Gwen
Lois
Delphi
Maud
Clio
Sage
Ethel
Aida
Willa

Cash? Really?!

Axel is nice, very common in Germany, although sounds a bit dated (it's 70s name).

I've come across a few baby boys called Elvis, and what I would call 'dad' names like Vincent. Strangely work on the kids of music industry bods and artists though...

Edie for girls seems to be a biggie on the hipster front. I do love it!

OP, I'm guessing Ottolie is actually Ottilie - a very upper-class name here in France -and not at all heard of outside noble circles!

Axel is also popular here in France, but is more a working-class name.

3boys I'm also annoyed about Florence becoming popular, as it had been on my list for years, if I were to have another girl one day. I have a Maud and an Estelle, and I fear they too are about to take off

DS's name is here but he is ten so I don't think it counts. I wish it wasn't getting so popular though; the abrieviation of his name is in the top 50 now

No, he's a Tobias.

3boysgirlontheway-Do not worry about Florence over here-the cutesy names have only really caught on in Ireland the ammount of Millies, Daisy-Mai's etc is nuts this is why I come on here to get my inspiration lol... Olivia, Isabelle & Ava aren't going anywhere either.
I think it will be a couple of years before the cute name die off & then the Irish names are always going to be used too.
Keep the names coming girls- op yes it is Ottilie apparently it is becoming very popular with the in-crown!

The Axel I know is not remotely hip.

Joan/Jonie
Jean
Joyce
Daphne
Audrey
Eileen

Peter
Philip
Andrew
John
Stephen

I'm about as far away as you can get from a hip Londoner and at the mother and baby group we go to there is a Toby, Rupert, Martha, Marnie, and Clementine (not including my DC). The hipsters are going to have to get more creative now that their names have spread t'up north

I have got Ottilie and Clemency on my list of girls names for current pregnancy. I'm not a hip Londoner!

I have Clement, Quentin, Arthur and Miles on my list of boys names too.

(I do have a history though of picking relatively unusual names and then finding out that every other bugger chosen the same names!).

my older dcs have 3 of the names mentioned in the OP.

The 'hip' London friends i know have given there children quite normal names..

Poppy
Lola
Robin
Abigail
Gabriel
Clementine
Peter
Sam

Beattie, Clément, Quentin and Arthur have been top 10 names in France for the past 15 years or so! You've obviously been reading the Figaro birth announcements ;)