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Title: Baby Names, England and Wales - 2011
Release date: 13 August 2012 at 9:30am

Title: Babies First Names Bulletin (Northern Ireland) - 2011
Release date: 31 August 2012 at 9:30am

Title: Babies First Names, Scotland - 2012
Provisional release date: December 2012

is sookie an alternative spelling of sukey/suki? as in suki put the kettle on? it was a name we always had on our list for a girl but spelt suikhi, which is the indian spelling i think?

It's Sookie Stackhouse of true blood.

And obviously the books the tv series is based on. Renesmee is from twilight. I think it's Bella and Edward's child.

Re: names that are just initials - I wonder how long before some over-zealous Mumsnet fan actually names her child 'DD' or DS'?

My friend is a Sookie and she's 37. The constant True Blood references have driven her to distraction.

Nothing on Renesmee though, foul name.

I know someone with twins called Harry and Amelia!!

Pleasingly my DS1 (born in 2011) name has only been used by 6 other people

5madthings polly puts the kettle on - suki takes it off again!

Not seen the regional breakdowns yet (on phone) but will be interested in them.
Both mine have top 20 names but we have only come across one child each with same name, and as they are at nursery I also know they have the Polish spelling. DS's name actually gets the odd raised eyebrow as its still quite unusual round here.
You can't move for Amelias, often shortened to Milly (? confusing, I thought Millies were Millicents) and there are a few Harrys though a lot of those are actually Harrison.

I don't live in a very mumsnet baby names area though if you see what I mean...

I think popular names are all swings and roundabouts really. 28 years ago my Mum named me Chloe, which was practically unheard of, nobody could spell it, people thought it was weird, and my own Grandmother thought it was a horrible name. I was the only Chloe in Lower School, Middle School, Upper School, College and University. Now every other child in the playground is called Chloe and it gets on my nerves that I have such a 'common' name, and also it feels like a child like name now as I do not know many adults called Chloe. It just goes to show that if you try hard to give your child a unique name it can become common later along the line, even 20 or so years later....

I would just go with a name you love and not worry if it is popular or unusual as you never know if it will become popular in the future.

I have given my little girl the name 'Lily' very popular according to the stats, even though I have never me another one around here. It did not bother me that it was so popular, I just love the name and think it is very pretty and feminine. I would not hesitate to give number 2 (if I am lucky enough to have a number 2) a popular name, and love many popular names such as Isabella, Amelia, Alyssa, and also not so popular names such as Pearl and Violet (which may become popular in the future who knows?). I would just follow my heart and pick a name that I love as you never know if it is going to become popular in the future or 'die out'.

"It just goes to show that if you try hard to give your child a unique name it can become common later along the line, even 20 or so years later...."

But thatss fine. It is only a problem if you have to share share your name with lots and lots of others in your peer group - in school, in the office etc. because it means you need to add an initial or other modifier to your name.

Surely noboby is going to confuse you (Chloe) with a little girl, are they .

2 Amelias and 2 Jacks in the primary my kids go to (with 107 students) So not surprised they are popular.

my lots names

dd1 23rd (grrrr it was not on the list the year she was born)
dd2 1372 (with 23 girls called it last year we have never met another)
ds 576 along with Bruno , Fred and Teddie)
dd3 is 297th

We wanted names that people knew but didn't necessarily know loads of Friends did put a stop to this with Phoebe but I still love the name so I am ok with it. For the other 3 I think we managed nicely.

No I guess they are not going to confuse me with a little girl hehe. It is just annoying that my name is always being yelled in the super market and park! I can see the point about not wanting to share the name with lots of others in the class, in my day it was all Sarahs and Gemmas, we had big Gemma, little Gemma, tall Sarah, short Sarah etc...

I still think if you like a name and it is popular go for it though as you might regret not using it and it may not be as popular in your area. My Lily starts nursery this September, I asked if there are loads of Lilys there and they said there are 2 Lilys and they have 80 Children on roll. I think it is like someone said earlier, popular names today are only a small percentage, not like 10% or what ever of people being called Mary back in time.

Lovely names for yours, Frikadellen.

Amused to see that 23 people called their daughters Neveah. Nevaeh is bad enough but at least it does spell something backwards!

My two are DS 47th and DD nowhere. Her name is not outlandish, it sounds Shakespearean and there is a relatively famous actress with it, and it has a lovely shortening. We chose it knowing it was rare (only about 5 of them in 2009). Now I am just desperate to know whether she is the only Rosamund last year or one of two!

Yeah agreed, TheDetective! If not Jacob then Jake! or James. Jessica for a girl - i see a 'J' theme!

with respect Chloe,i disagree that 'Chloe' was practically unheard of, well not near me anyway. i went to primary with 1 chloe and secondary with 2 others called Chloe. i was born 35 years ago.
but yes, it was no where as popular as it is now.

I added up all the Lily/Lilly/Lillie/Lilli's (plus hyphenated versions of them - Mai/May/Mae/Rae/Rose etc) and there were over 9,700 names like these! Crazy!

I'm a contemporary of yours Chloe1983, & I have always known a couple of Chloes at school, uni etc. I think of it as quite an 80s name!

Well Nancy was 135th. Wonder If there will be more in 2012. Only a year to find out!

Ditto on the Chloe front, I'm a few years older but there were lots of Chloes in the years below me.

Chloe was number 852 in 1982 but I guess there was still other ones out there somewhere, just none near me I guess! Everyone thought my name was pronounced Chol haha.

DD is at 87, but there were only 17 born in Wales so I think we're probably safe on the 3 in one class thing!

Im in my late 40s and I remember a couple of Chloes at school... where did you LIVE, Chloe, the North Pole?

No, the east midlands lol. It was all Sarahs and Gemmas and Nicolas and Katies in my school. I remember there was Gemma L, Gemma O, Gemma G, big Gemma, ginger Gemma etc. And I used to wish I had a popular name, instead of people reading my name on my text book and saying 'why are you called Chol' lol.

I would agree with 1983 Chloe that it was not v common at all in the 70's/80's generation - I knew no Chloes at school and only ever encountered one at university.
I would not mind, though if my name suddenly became popular 20 years after I was born - as someone said at least all your contemporaries will not have the same name and it shows quite forward thinking parents!
By the way, how do you know Chloe was number 852 in 1982? - Where are these statistics available, I would love to see them!

Just type in on google the year you are looking for. I found the info for my name on www.babynamewizard.com/baby-name/girl/chloe after doing a google search.