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!!!

Tansy

I have a 9 mo orla, id never heard of the name and neither had my family or friends but in the past 4 days ive heard of a new one every week! definetly think there will be an explosion of them in a year or so a la ruby, lexi and olivia :(

still love it though!

oh and the only problem so far RE the oral thing is that i phone autocorrect changes it to oral if your not extremely vigilant...red faces all round on more than a few occasions!

titchvida LOVELY name btw just not for one born on the day!!!

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Darnsouth Orla is already a top ten name in Ireland and Scotland. It's very traditional, but has started to be used for babies again in the way that we are using granny names in England. The explosion in England is due to Orla Kiely / Brady I reckon!
My parents didn't want me to name my DD Orla, as its a very obvious Catholic name in NI (we are) and they were worried about discrimination in England. Thankfully the world has moved on from their experiences.

:( DD2's name is on the OP's list. We have never heard of any or met any. We are not in London, and we're really not hip!

How do you think it happens? Names just kind of creep under the radar into people's subconscious?

Florence is very pretty but it's the shortenings of it I'm not keen on: Flo and Florrie just don't seem so appealing.

DD2 who arrived a few months ago is Elspeth Kitty.

I agree, Teacup. Florence is lovely, but the shortenings are all unattractive imo - Flo, Florri, Flossie..? But why shorten it at all?

rushelle if we have a dd she is highly likely to be Beryl as it is one of the few on my long list that my dh also loves.. I posted on here about it, and got hundreds of replies telling me I was mental.

I don't think you need to be a of an origin to call your child a name from it personally. I love classical names because I studied Latin and Greek and they've made an impression on me.

In my last 2 weeks of pregnancy I became convinced I was having a girl and determined she should be called Josephine. DH clearly (I see now) hated it but humoured me. We had a son. Disaster averted. BUT I still love the name - shortens well, elegant, works for an adult. And no others in the class...

LineRunner - that's eaaasy, they're all Aliens Characters...will PM you my address for the 99.

Garden4me

Patrick - shorten to Pat

Patricia - shortened to Pat

OK Cuppa! Mind you, mousyMouse said she's got it, but on the other hand she didn't prove it.

Would you like melted, or encased in a tub of liquid nitrogen?

No idea about hip london parents, but on the uber cool brighton coast recent names include:

Zephyr
Star
Sparkle
Silver
Hebe

There was someone in DD school Im sure was a type of car which I really think is a big no-no. I can't remember what it was but I did laugh at the time.

We have quite a few what I would have previously thought of as "old lady" names but now seem quite commonplace such as:

Edith
Elsie
Peggy
Esther

I was desperate to call DD lily but DH said no as it was too old. Wish I had now!

liquid nitrogen please, I'm sure I can put it good use once the ice cream's been consumed

Cuppa, you do realise the costs of postage and packing fall to you?

Orla has been popular for quite some time now (even down here in the southern hemisphere where I am) - if you don't follow baby name trends then you probably wouldn't be aware of that, but fashions seep into our subconscious, whether we're aware of it or not. You might think you're the first one to use/pick up on something, but often as not you're reacting to other influences.

I remember considering it for DC1 back in 2008, and ruling it out as the next 'Isla'.

I work in the city and all the baby girls being born around here are getting old lady names lol The ones I've seen multiple times are : Florence (sorry :( ), Fleur , Estelle , Beatrix , Maud/Maudy/Maudry , Esther , Viola . Then there's also been a few weirder ones like Ottoline (Ottilie is lovely though) , Thalia and Warren (yes for a girl lol) . The boys seem to have gotten normal-ish names , Sam , Joe , Miles , Bob etc. I think it might be some kind of inverse trend? The chavs have all gone in for old posh names like Tristan so the 'posh' people are being trendy by giving their kids builders and granny names ?

NotnOtter - is my DD and she wasn't born on the day :) I agree that would be too much. And I know it's strictly speaking a boy's name but I love it.

dreamy titch!!!

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