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!!!

Christingle
Gently
Connemara
Nebula

Pembroke
Tudor
Thorn
Frisson

Jarvis
Casper
Hugo
Leo
Marcus

Kitty
Sienna
Pearl
Ella
Eliza
Ava
Florence
Millicent

Spiller
Zenith
Bandana (unisex)

Timotei
Pantene
Treseme
Loreal
Voseen
Wash'n'go

I haven't even got a baby on the way but Edie is lovely. I had an Aunt Edie... I think some of the what I think of as 70s names are starting to come back - I suppose it's the next generation thing - Kevin and Maxine being two I was surprised by recently. Can't remember where I heard them though so can't say on their hip quotient...

I'm with Lapsed and Fairies here, I reckon that Enid Blyton solid 40s names are in for a revival - Susan, Frances, Mary, Peter - a bit Narnia, a bit Ladybird.
I'm in an 'edgy' part of London and in our v mixed primary school I've noticed that it's the non ahem hipster type kids who have the most outlandish names. I think unusual names have become a bit declasse because everybody's trying to outdo each other, therefore 'proper' names will become classier. They will seem more timeless, but as discussed, we're all subject to the forces of fashion, subconsciously or otherwise, when baby naming.

Harpic
Domestos
Toilet-Duck

Hawkeye
Daniel
Cora
Madeleine
Alice
Magwa

Actually, they're rather good.

I don't know any 'hip' londoners but here in Cambridgeshire there are lots of classic old school names like Edward and Christopher but some more unusual, usually double-barrelled, like Elsie-May and Ella-Rose.

There's also the really, really old school lot with Mabel, Grace and Peter.

Neither of my boys' names have been mentioned on this thread.... yet

Hewlitt
Cisco
Packard
Postit
Moleskin
Canon
Scissor

I agree that the 30s/40s/50s names will be the next trend - sensible, unfrilly, solid names. You only need to look at Lily Allen's Ethel Mary to see it happening already.

I haven't read the whole thread but my Poppy is 15 weeks old, oooh, a, I posh then?

I love Florence too.

am I posh then?

Love Mary too.

Parthenope (Florence Nightingale's sister)

Hip East London - there's a phrase I never thought I would read.

Linerunner, Tudor is in fact the Welsh version of Theodore and is indeed a name in its own right. Quite a nice one!

I'll have you know that both my children's names are hidden in my lists above!

I love Tudor. And Hawkeye. But them's not them.

my dc names are also on here. more than once even. wow I'm posh :o

Nutters, we picked Alice for DD as we liked it but also as we didn't want anything v popular - it had better not be the next trend

I hear alot of babies round my way who are Edwards and Henrys.

I love the old fashioned names and would have picked a real grannyish name for dd but alas dh has boring taste

I know of twin girls recenty born in the London area.
They are Poppy-Bella (which I thought was Polly-Bella at first) and Emily-Skye.

I don't like them but each to their own!

recently.

Their mum is quite the arty type.

Girls

Jean/ Jeannie
Marie/ Marree
Cynthia
Nellie
Una

Ernest
Gerald
Job - said Jobe

So what are the top Irish names? DH is Irish so we are considering Irish names but hadn't thought about popularity. We don't want to end up in the top ten accidentally!!

The posh london kids i know are although these go up to aged 4. You can tell they don't need to worry about playground bullying when they are at school with Caspar, Jonty, Monty,M
aude and Ethel.
Boys:

Basil
Lysander
Columba
Rasmus
Arthur

Felix
Louis
Ruaridh

Girls:
Clemmentine
Agnes
Edith
Rosa
Gwen