Popular baby names you're bored off...

[flowerygirl]

I swear every child under 5 I've met in the past year have been called Jack or Isla. Failing that, Josh or Isabelle.

Lovely names but so bored of them. Anyone else bored of any other names?

I hear of a lot of Ellie/Ella/Ellie-Mays and Jacks.... I have a Jack and agree it's quite a boring name and I disliked it for a long time but it suits my ds

I too would rather take the interesting names - Willow, Ernest/Ernie, Bayard/Bay - rather than adding yet another little Evie or Jack!

Tom and Ben - middle class cliches

I disagree and think mass use has made these classless. The good thing about this type of name is that you couldn't tell (on paper, by the name alone) whether a Tom was working class, middle, or aristocracy.

I know loads of Willows, and it's high in the charts, in the top 100 too, and rising quickly. Not unusual at all.

Weird thread! Is 'boring' better than shouting a unique name accross the playground and have every other parent turn to look at you to find out if that scream was aimed at the child or the dog??

On the contrary, shouting a popular name like Jack across the playground will probably have many kids and parents wondering whether their Jack was meant. A less trendy name is more likely to identify a specific child. Isn't that why we name people?

And why on earth does a less overused name imply it is a dogs' name?!

My name isn't that common in my age group, but it popular for children now. I am always spinning around in the supermarket or playground wondering why someone has yelled my name!

Agree we give names to help identify people. I suppose in my ideal world everyone would have their own unique name. It seems strange to me to have a baby and then they become just another jack or isla. I realise other people see it completely differently, but people who like popular names shouldn't assume that us "interesting" namers are just doing it to show off or be pretentious. I just wanted my DC to have their own name, hopefully, at least among their peer group, and names that meant something in our family.

Boys names I get sick of hearing:

Alfie
McKenzie
Josh/Joshua
Jake

Girls Names:
Ellie
Ella
Isobel/Isabella
Evie
Milly

My DD is called Isobel. She is 5, in reception and is the only Isobel (or variation of) in her year group. There are 3 classes.

Not that it makes a blind bit of difference, I was one of 6 in my class at school with the same name. And am one of 3 mums with the same name at the school gate. I have never found it to be an issue.

My DS' s name gas also been mentioned ob this thread. There are 2 of them in there year and another 4 or 5 in the school. Again doesn't bother him.

Incidentally my DH is the only person I know with his name and it drives him mad that despite it being a perfectly ordinary name very few people pronounce it how it naturally sounds in our accent. It either comes out as dodgy cockney ( due to an old character in Eastenders) or with an elongated vowel. Which he maintains is not his name.

"I was one of 6 in my class at school with the same name."

Wow - if it wasn't an issue for you, I'm sure it must have been for the teachers ! I help out at the Scouts and we have a group with 4 Jacks, two of which share the same surname - that doesn't make it easy for calling just one of them!

I imagine it was, though right from the start we were First Name, initial of surname. So it never felt like something was added on so maybe they learnt with the initials first.
Now I am 'x -Isobel's Mum'.

Finley/Finlay.

I think every other little boy I've met recently has been either a Finley or a Finlay. I do actually like the name but it's popularity has put me off.

For girls it's either Poppy or Ellie.

Maki79 a name can be unique without being odd or out there.

As OP I've loved reading everyone's responses. I've always been fascinated by people's name choices. As soon as someone's baby is born I want to know what the name is, bit of an obsession These days I expect Ava or Jack. YAWN. Always more excited when I hear 'she's called Luna' or 'his name is Frank'. I think 'great, they'll be the only one in their class' Just my opinion though.

I specifically chose a name for DD that was, uncommon but not mental imo. It ends in -ie and is an old lady name, currently not in the top 100 but I have money on it becoming very popular in the next 5 years. I really hope not just because I don't want to be know by her surname initial or whatever. Variety is the spice of life and I love different names. Although I once worked with a Pereguin and he hated his name so much he called himself Terry. Also knew a Sheherazade, will forget her because of her name. Never found out what she thought of it though.

I mean, will never forget Sheherazade because of her name!

Honestly, don't people have more important things to concern themselves with!

Says the person commenting on the thread Applefallingfromthetree2! It's in the 'baby name' discussion section. Not interested, don't read it. Simple.

Balonz.

Every other child seems to be called that, these days.

"Wouldn't then you have to be really good at predicting future popular names in order to avoid the overused name scenario in the future? Choose something then which has never been popular, or likely to be?"

No, just avoid names that are already in the top 10 or top 20.

Doesn't work, because names go up and down. E.g. my eldest's name was #92 the year she was born, and it's been listed frequently on this thread. I'd wanted to use it for about ten years, perhaps I should have been tracking ONS all that time to attempt to predict the future!

I like to think of myself as a trendsetter - all my kids' names have got more popular since they were born.

Well my daughters name is on some of these lists but do I care........NO. We knew her name was popular when we choose it, but we choose it because we like the name and not bothered about how popular it is! Some people worry to much about the name of their baby being different from everyone else. As long as you are happy with your child's name and you know they will like it when they grow up what's the fuss about, all nice name become poplar in the end....

My daughter may have a popular name but her personality is unique... Just like everyone else, we might share the same name with someone but we are all unique in are own way :)

Stop worrying....

All 3 of my DCs names were mentioned back on page 1 .

Not one of their middle names though!

FWIW, my 17 year old Jack was the only one in his year group for the whole 12 years of school.

My DD is also the only Poppy at pre-school. There are multiple Jessica's, Olivia's and even Sidney's! But only one Poppy.

So nah-nah-nah ??.

Sorry, on my silly phone! That emoticon should have been a .

Santa My dd who shares your dd's name is in y13 and has been the only one of that name for most of her time at secondary school. Not surprising that the teachers are bored of it

Haha you mentioned you both mine and my sister's names SinisterBuggyMonth. To be fair I've only known a few with my name. ALL my friends born in the 80s are called Sarah or Helen, it's annoying.