Is Harry too popular?

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Thinking of calling DS2 Harry, but I fear it may be vastly overused.

I already have a Daniel, just to give you an idea of what we like.

Any other suggestions welcome

Thanks

Might be a surprise but I dont actually know any Harry's under 5 so its not overused where I am.
I quite like it and personally dont mind the more popular names anyway (ie. Chloe is on our shorlist for girls and I think thats still in the top ten).

Of the Daniel's I know, they have brothers called Thomas, Gareth, Simon, and Zac.

Other suggestions could be Adam, James, Haydn, Joseph, Owen, and Christian.

Depends.

Let's say your son was born in 2010 in England or Wales for a minute and you named him Harry.

Your Harry would have been one of 6,862 boys called Harry.

There might be other boys called Harry although with different given names:
Henry - 2,239
Harrison - 1,943
Harris - 129
Harri - 116
Harry-James - 14
Harrie - 10
Harry-Lee - 5
Harryson - 5
Harrisson - 4

Potentially, your Harry would have been one of a very large number of babies born that year with the same name.

You can see why all of those mums and dads went with Harry - it's a great name! - but the fact there are so many of them would put me right off. Would I want my son to be one of a few in his class with a couple of Henrys and Harrisons too?

Had your Daniel been born in 2010, he would have been one of 4,330. Obviously Daniel would have been a very popular choice too (No. 11) - but over 2,000 more babies were called Harry (No. 3).

Personally, I'd rather go with something a bit less popular. That doesn't mean you have to pick something weird or unheard of - for example, Peter (400 boys), Anthony (398), Hugo (394), Adrian (266), Scott (225), Barnaby (214), Laurence (122), Douglas (98)... Yes, Hugo might be one of a few others in his class but, going by numbers alone, it's a lot less likely.

You've got a Daniel so maybe you'd like enough classic, traditional boys' name or Biblical name:
Adam
Alexander (Andy has a similar feel to Harry.)
Andrew
Anthony
Arthur
Asher
Benjamin
Christopher (Kit is a lovely nickname)
David
Edward
Eli
Elijah
Ethan
Ezra
Gabriel
George
Hugh
Holden
Isaac
Jack
James
Jasper
John
Jonah
Jonathan
Joseph
Joshua
Josiah
Julian
Leo
Louis (Pronounced Louie, it's a good alternative to Harry.)
Luke
Mark
Martin
Matthew
Michael
Nathan
Nicholas (Nicky has a similar vibe to Harry.)
Noah
Oscar
Patrick (You could always nickname him Paddy, which reminds me a bit of Harry.)
Paul
Peter
Philip
Richard
Robert
Samuel
Simon
Stephen
Theodore
Thomas
Timothy
Victor
William
Zachary

It's quite hard to find a nickname for Harry so you might want another name like that such as Bailey, Finn, Flynn, Miles or Milo.

There are 3 in my dd's nursery calssed (2-3yo), it's in the top 5 isn't it?

What is going on with my typing today?

There are 4 Harrys in our Beavers group (of 21)! And two of them share the same surname initial, so 2 Harrys always have to write their first and surname on everything. So yes, very very popular and your ds probably wouldn't thank you for it.

Yes, very popular round here.

Great name but v popular! I know 4 under 8 through different sets of friends, never mind the few in my sons Reception class!

Very popular if it matters to you

I think the problem is I don't love it enough not to care at all about popularity. I love Laurence, we are using it as a middle name but I don't think it 'fits' with our family as a first name. I also really like Matthew and Nathan but DH doesn't!

I have been scouring the internet and name books and I still don't think I've found 'the one'. It was much easier with DS1!