most over-popular names of 2012 and 2013

[photographerlady]

I do not mean this in a bad way but anyone hear the same names over and over and over the last couple of years?

Mines are:

Jayden - had 8 clients so far this year with that name
Ellie
Eva
Imogen
George
Girl names ending in Lee, Lea, Leigh

[Nannydo]

There seem to be quite a few John Pauls around this area.

[benjalamummy]

Where I am:

Noah
Leon
Elias

Ava
Anna/Anne
Emma/Emilie

[OBface]

Toby. Absolutely everywhere.

Lots of Evie, Ava, Eva, Isabella, Annabel etc here too.

[MikeFlowersPops]

Names ending in Belle or Bella - especially Isabelle or Isabella
Ava
Lily
Freya
I know 3 Anyas (don't know if this is a local trend)

Harry
Charlie
Benjamin / Ben
Thomas

[PerchanceToDream]

Jack

Mia/Maya
Aila/Eila/Elia (always get those confused!)
Sofia
Isobel

[imsorryihaventaclue]

We have 4 Florences at my DD's nursery. And I thought I was giving her a slightly unusual name....

[BurnstonesBabies]

Round here (in Scotland), we're awash with Islas. There's been a flood of Noahs this last year too, a couple of Kaylas, Archie is cropping up quite a lot too and Oliver.

[BurnstonesBabies]

Add Leo to that list too!

[flowerygirl]

Grace
Isabella
Isla

Oscar
Jack
Harry
Charlie

All lovely but these names are in 'top 10 names of the year' lists, do parents not check these before naming their kids?!

[SoggySummer]

Eleanor, Ellie, Isobel, Olivia, Amelia

Jayden, Jack, Alfie, Thomas, Harry

[pollypanic]

George
Oscar
Harry

Amelie
Isabel/la and various spellings
Emma
Sophie

[thegreylady]

Lots of Finlays but only one Finn
Ava seems popular here and so does Tilly

[thegreylady]

Fwiw I have never met/heard of a Jayden

[Wetthemogwai]

Evie, Molly, Taylor (double barrelled with may or Lilly usually), Ava, lexi, ruby and milly for the girls

Alfie, Jayden/kayden, Charlie and Daniel for the boys

Dd just staring playgroup in the new area now which is completely the other end of the spectrum to the old one! The girls names are very similar but the boys are more William, Reuben and Charles which is very odd hearing them being politely beckoned shouted across the room when they're rubbing sand in each others eyes

[marriedinwhite]

All lovely. I can't quite get my head around Jayden though. Is it the 2010(ish) equivalent of Wayne?

[peanutMD]

Oliver
Oscar
Freya
Isla
Sophie

Oh and the oh so original (as claimed by 3 friends who don't know each other) Lily-Rose

[iclaudius]

ava
isla
isobel ( and varients)
Amelie
Evie/Eva

Leo
James
Alex
Finn

[ClaraBean]

My youngest dc is 5, so I don't know loads of babies, but 4 out of the 10 or so babies that I know born in the last year have been called Felix.

[ceeveebee]

I don't know any Jaydens or any girls with names ending in Leigh/Lea etc

Popular here seem to be deriratives of Luke: Luke, Luca, Lucas
Also Jack, Charlie, George

Girls names seem to be more varied and unusual: we have an Autumn, Willow, Swan and Skye in some of our groups

[GreatGretzky]

Charlie and Noah for boys, and Olivia and Sophie or Sophia for girls

[GreatGretzky]

Meant to say as well, I don't know any Jaydens but do know 3 Brayden/Braydons!

[zcos]

One not mentioned yet is theo for boys ...

But usual Ava Evie eve
And
Charlie and lots of Noah's

One of the wags of DH best mates has an Ava and she is midwife you would have thought she would have noticed every other baby was called that but they thought they were being original at the time!

[StopEatingThatMud]

flowerygirl DD's name is on your list.

To answer your question, we knew it was popular. But it's a family name and we knew we were going to use it whether it was number 1 or number 854,294.