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?

Its all very well giving your child a unique name, but you have to be very careful that they do not get the p*ss ripped out of them for it.

I liked some unique names for my children that I thought were cool but went for a more safe but nice traditional name– he/she has to live with it for the rest of his life and children at school can be very cruel!

The names I love are decent genuine names that aren't in trend. Mary, peter, Zoe and Natasha instead of jack, Harry, eve and Olivia. Just because you don't choose top 10 doesn't mean you opt for moonunit or fifi Trixibelle.

And kids are far more open minded about different names than some of you imply.

Mae/May
Rose
Grace

as middle names. it's like they're the only 3 middle names in the world for a girl.

I don't know why some posters think if it's not top 10/20 then it has to be something uneeque or bizarre.

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I haven't read all the posts but someone said that names come and go through the years, and I agree, but so many of the old names are coming back and I can't say I like them. We have 3 Arthurs in our road (all under 3) and I've heard of girls called Maud, Edith, Hilda and Mabel. I suppose it depends what age you are - I'm 70 so those old names are the names of my old aunties. When I was at school the girls had names like Janet, Maureen, Eileen, Jennifer, Cynthia, Margaret, Susan, Annette, etc (boring really) and the boys were Peter, Roger, David, Ian, Michael, Kenneth etc.

I have a cousin born in 1960 called Laura and we all thought it was awful - but fast forward 20 years and Laura's were ten a penny, also Hannah, William, Jack and Joshua. When I called my first son Daniel in the mid 60's it was very unusual, now quite common. He was meant to be Anna Louise(!) and 2nd son called Toby was meant to be Fiona Catherine......wouldn't have suited him!

My eldest grand-daughter is Hazel, (born in 1996) next one Joanna (born 1998) next one Anya (born 2000) then Finlay born in 2005 and dare I say the youngest is Isla (born in 2009) I like all the names though not keen on Hazel. Reminds me of a girl at school I didn't like.

I live in London and know baby Millies, Evies and Archies, I obviously live in the uncool part of town! I'm a secondary teacher and teach more Ellies than any other name

Amelia, Ava, Henry, Isabelle

Evie. Olivia. Alfie.

I have to admit, despite my annoyance with very common names, my DD's middle name is Rose. I swear every baby girl I know has that middle name. But they're not known by their middle name and it flows so well with most names :)

I know I am desperately late to the party, but if I don't say it, even though it has been said before, I will forever regret it:

Balonz. Obviously.

I'd pick a name based on if I like it the most, and not popularity. My name was very popular; when I was at school, there were five of us in my year, however I haven't met one since leaving school many years ago.

Zach

I don't know why some posters think if it's not top 10/20 then it has to be something uneeque or bizarre.

Absolutely agree. Given that there were over 1000 names given last year, there are over 950 names out there that are not top50/mega trendy ones.

The truly 'uneeque' ones actually don't even make it onto the ONS lists as there need to be at least 2 babies named a given name for the name to be included.

My DD's name is on practically everyone's hitlist

Although tbh, I'd never heard of one when I had her and it was a drivative of DH's grandmas name.

I think it's tricky once you are in the baby/toddler group/nursery circuit because you hear them all!

Friend recently had a baby Eddie which meant something to them and they didn't know of any, in my wider circle there are three - just how it goes I suppose

Thomas, Milo, Oscar, Charlie,
Daisy, Lily, Grace,

I have an Oliver and I do groan when I hear about 20 other kids called it in the local park. Not so many children my sons age (7) but little babies and toddlers. I still love the name though and it really suits my little boy.

Jasmine, Emily, Ellie, Freya, Lily

Alfie, Archie, Finlay, Finn

Where I am living at the mo, I am sick of Sophie and Sophia. There's about ten zillion of them around.

I've met three babies called Honey at playgroups in the last month, never thought that would be a popular one!

Honey is probably from EastEnders? It reminds me of Winnie the Pooh :-)

Noah is another one I'm tired of hearing.

There are middle of the road names (and thousands of them) between weird and wacky and calling a child to find three or four kids turning around.

To the poster who said they were one of many and it never bothered them, I find this very unusual. I have one of the most used names of the 50s/60s/70s and hated it for years and years. I know many people with my name and it's popularity was definitely not an advantage to having the name.

Funny that some people think unusual names are just for dogs. I think it's more common for dogs to be called popular baby names like Charlie, Molly, etc.
Dog owners must be very unimaginative around here

I have a Finley, he's 5 and when we picked it we didn't know of a single other Finley. Three of my 'friends' have since given their little boys the same name. He's the only Finley in his class though, and I think maybe the only one in his school so it's still not overly popular here.

I'm 9 weeks pregnant with number 2 and this thread has definitely given me food for thought when it comes to picking names again!

I have a Finley, he's 5 and when we picked it we didn't know of a single other Finley. Three of my 'friends' have since given their little boys the same name. He's the only Finley in his class though, and I think maybe the only one in his school so it's still not overly popular here.

I'm 9 weeks pregnant with number 2 and this thread has definitely given me food for thought when it comes to picking names again!