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!!!

Dorothy, Ivy, Caspar, Indio, Jago, Theo.

Agnes, Ada.

oo Ott- ee -lie... like it....

Martha, Ada, Agatha, George (for both sexes).

Boys:
Flame
Tangent
Ronnie
Biffa
Pensive

Girls:
Twigg
Larry
Monrovia
D'ashleeigh
Blamm

Those names from your friend are popular my way amongst the middle classes too

For real, Crunch? You've actually encountered children with those names? I've heard of avant garde but Biffa? Seriously? That's just cruelty.

Where do you LIVE, Crunch?

Ahh sorry I was joking... Dont know whether to be amused or deeply saddened that even Pensive and Blamm possibly got past a couple of you. lt's a sobering comment on the baby name madness.

For real: a couple of Magnuses (Magni?), Minerva, Hector, 2 Dominics, Isla, Beatrice.

Ah yes, Crunch,

Biffa
Veoilia
Onyx
Colas
Ensign

Coterie
Espressa
Iams
Tonne

Ds2 was born Cosmo and a few hours later I thought... Nah Cosmo is not right, and changed it (to a French name, nothing hip)

I love otillie shame I'm pg with 3rd boy!!
I also really like Attila (and know a 30_something guy) but the connotations are just a bit too much

I don't know hip people sorry I can't contribute....

I have heard recently

Arlo
lots of variations of Ed/Teddy/Woody
Felix still popular

Juno

Florence? Florence...?

It's not timeless, it's dated passé already. Sorry, but when a 40-something Tory politician (FFS!) called his daughter Florence waaaay back in 2010, it was the beginning of the end of the name, at least if you move in 'hip', 'jet set' circles.

OP - are you the India / Marybella poster? Because if so, I'm afraid to say that you're simply not on the cutting edge of baby names at all...!

"I think Flora is way cooler than Florence."

As mother of a Flora, I agree entirely

Manon
Ishbel
Astrid

Otto
Sam

at TheCrunch... whenever I see these threads I feel the urge to breed again and call the offspring Tracey.

my more pretentious hipsterish chums were talking the other day about bringing back 'mum and dad' names

carol
susan
julie
pamela

colin
roger
martin
alan

give it a few years, the toddler groups of stoke newington will be full of 'em

Names at some of the groups I go to include:

Arlo (3 of them!)
Ernest
Juno
Fabian

I don't think Albert is a hipster's choice of name now. I know 3 of them (all known as either Bertie or Albie) and they've all been born to decidedly none hipster parents.

I agree with the previous poster re Florence. Surely David Cameron stopped that being cool way back in 2010?!

Why do you honestly care what 'hip' Londoners and the jet set are calling their kids?

Tbh you sound a bit sad.

Alan is a grand name, as is Pauline.

Gosh DS 1 was almost Otto. So glad we didnt

Gilda
Lenny
Presley
Ezra
Annie
Huxley
Alphonso
Astrid
Clementine
Ziporah

I would believe it though, crunch

I commented earlier on with the Telegraph names. I'm from North Wales, where Ffion and Osian are the in-names at the moment, but the trendy London couple I do know have gone for Ada and Theo.