Very common surnames

[mnmkjs]

If you had the most common surname in the UK, what would you name your boy / girl?
Most of the names we like are quite safe and traditional but I don't want them to have exactly the same name as several of their classmates! We particularly like girls names ending in -a and simple masculine boys' names. No middle names decided on yet.

Adrina?
Nina?
Katya?
Lilia?

Nadia
Ariana
Juliana
Cecilia
Melissa
Aurora
Antonia
Clarissa
Lorna
Jacinta
Elena

Owen
Elijah
Benjamin
Lewis
Fraser
Austin
Rory
Marcus
Jonathan

For girls:
Aurora
Ariana
Swansea
Dua
Hawa
Nana
Lorna

For boys:
Watson
Morgan
Allen
Mitchell
James
Anderson
Phillips

I have one of the most common surnames , and my children have traditional ,normal and probably in the top 30 , but not top 10 names .
As long as you don't go for Tom , Jack ,Harry and Sophie , Emily , Jessica etc you should be fine .
They have never had anyone with the same name in their school , let alone form .

How about

Clara
Antonia

Quentin
Fabian

Zachary/variants of, and something like Arabella for a girl.

Alexa
Alissa/Alyssa
Anna
Aurelia
Belinda
Catriona
Claudia
Estella
Francesca
Julia
Lydia
Miranda
Naomi
Rosa

Alexander
Callum
Craig
Christopher
Daniel
Dominic
Ellis
Ewan
Ian
Nicholas
Roderick
Sebastian
Stefan

Anya / Enya
Ayanna
Julia / Juliette
Jenna / Gemma
Kristina
Thea
Daniella
Una
Orla
Georgia / Georgina / Georgiana

Nathan
Leon
Anthony
Christian
Dominic
Haydn / Aidan
Greg / Gregor / Gregory
Jack / Jackson
Ciaran
Zachary