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?

Oh yeah fully agree Alfie are everywhere.

Isabel (in all its variations)
Poppy
Orla
Sophie
Chloe
Ellie etc
Emma
Kate/Katie
Alex
Harry
Jack
Sean

....are the popular ones around here. My own DD has a very popular/common name not yet mentioned on this thread (after a dear relative) and my other DC has a more unusual name. I sincerely wish I'd given my second child a name similar to my first as I'm weary of having to spell it and people still get it wrong all the time.

Oh I forgot the most popular of all.....Ava!

and also these two

Mia
Finn

they are EVERYWHERE.

If a name is nice, it doesn't matter how popular it is.

My name is unusual because it's ugly.

DD has a pretty name that I didn't hear often, but now hear all the time when I'm out and about with her.

I'm actually relieved by it.

All the popular names are objectively "nice" though. They are not ugly sounding. Some will date, but some are classic.

I'm not sure what the problem is with having a more common name.

I would much rather grow up as a "jack" than some way-out name my parents chose to be different which earned me a lifetime of raised eyebrows, and correcting of spellings.

BTW: I don't live in London. And I don't have a child called Jack!

My DS has a name mentioned a few times here. I couldn't care less what people think! It's a family name that's been used for hundreds of years.

I love it. My DS could have been called anything though, it wouldn't have mattered, he's that awesome

My DS is Sam, which is common, and my DD is Margaret, which isn't. :)

I don't know what I'm going to name DC#3. So far the frontrunner is William...good thing I've got til spring to decide!

NewClassic Isaiah and Elijah are overdone in the states. :)

So is any form of Isabelle. Lovely name, but unusable now. Ditto Olivia. For boys, Jake.

There are over 1000 boys names and as many girls names to choose from!

Why, therefore, do so many of us choose the same few ones? Names should identify us, and life would be more interesting if we all made more use of all the lovely names out there.

There are 3 Harrys and 2 Sophies in our scout group of 16. Can get confusing sometimes!

Oh I love margaret/maggie. That's a good example of a decent proper name that is underused.

My grandmothers had hideous names, adored them both but not saddling my dds with those nor would they have wanted me to!

Oh god Sophie's. Dd2 has 4 friends named sophie/Sophia dd2 has 4 named eve. Sorry but it is dull not to mention confusing I can barely keep up with ever changing friendships I have no hope if they all called the same bloody name!

Anything like this Ellie-Mae/Mai.
Anything with IE instead of Y.

Blahhhh blahhhh yawn.

Anything made up. Anythin badly spelt. Anfernee instead of Anthony for example. I shit you not.

Anything* oh dear. Its Monday.

Names I'd like to see -

Baby

Veronica, Mavis, Gwen, Hyacinth, Bianca, Eartha, Yolanda, Moira

Anthony, Charles, Peter, Paul, Hugo

Yes, it can get confusing. Two of the Sophies share the same surname initial!

It doesn't get easier in adult life. I've met so many Steves recently (we're doing some building works) that I honestly struggle to remember who is who...

There are so many names. Let's make more use of them all!

I feel sad that so many lovely names are so over used at the moment.

Eva/Evie/Eve - so classic and such beautiful names, but they're everywhere.
The same with Isabel/lla, Ava, Olivia, Ella and Poppy. They are really lovely names and I like them a lot, but because they're now so commonplace, it takes away from their beauty for me because they've become like Sarah or Nicola when I was at school.

I know what you mean, but Margaret isn't underused though really. It's top ten within the older generations. Just not extremely popular with this current one...yet

I think it's easy (well, one reason, going by my theory) to see why some names become so popular. Just look at this thread, some of the names given as less popular or underused, might not be top 100, but aren't actually very uncommon at all and they're soaring in popularity at rate of knots.

The Betsy/Bessie/Betty names are super popular here at the

moment

My father and pretty much every one of his friends (similar-ish age/class) are all named John its quite funny.

Just find it odd that people don't realise that choosing Eve/Ella/Amelia is the equivalent to our generations Sarah/Kate/Claire. In any group of mid-late thirties women I guarantee at least one if not more will have one of these names and it will be the same with the current top 10.

What surprises me is that so many parents are influenced by fashion when it comes to naming their children. And that they still choose a trendy name when it is already used by so many, even by their friends' kids (see other threads asking about using their friends' names).

This overuse of top 20 names leads originally lovely, fresh sounding names to becoming overused, dull and eventually dated sounding. What is Clare, Michelle, Sharon, Michael, Andy in the 70s is now Evie, Sophie, Izzy, Jack, Charlie and Alfie.

I wish parents were more open to names outside the top 100 - there are so many beautiful, interesting sounding names to choose from!!

But so what Kerala? If they absolutely love the name and/or want to use it for family reasons why is that so odd?

Any anyway, not sure why you think some of these names are so common anyway.

I know one Evie, one Jack, one Harry, one Isobel. Don't know any child called Eve, eva, Isobel, Sophie, Jack, Harry, Amy, Amelia. Can't be that overused.

I wish women would stop being so disdainful of other women's choices.

When DD was born in 2008, her name was 146 in the top 200 names and her middle name was around 57. They are now around 193 and 94. Her name is not that unusual, but it is pretty and it is not common around here. Yet in her swimming class there is another girl with the same name, which they both think is hilarious :)

In her class she has 3 Jack's, 3 Zack's (all spelt different), 2 Charlie's and 2 Emily's.

When we named her we wanted to go for something different, that there wouldn't be another 3 of in the same class.

I have noticed around here that all the old names from my grandparents generation are coming back again, Elsie, Eliza, Rosie, Mary, Maggie, .

I don't suppose that there will be many called Agnes, Gladys, Doris though!

My name isn't that common, but it is a 70's name and there were at least 3 of us in my year at school. I went out for a meal a while ago and the phone rang and they said it's for XXX and four of us jumped up saying, that's me! lol. But no babies are called my name now.

Names that are overused round here include

Ellie/Evie/Sophie/Izzy/Lilly/Amelia/Amelie/Emily
Alfie/Jack/Harry/Oliver/Finn/Charlie/Sam

It is a shame, really, that what starts of as a nice name becomes so trendy and fashionable that people tire of it and it starts to sound dated. It's also annoying for the children who end up being Ellie R or Ellie A, or worse, big Ellie, little Ellie or whatever else other kids come up with.

There are SO many great names - just look at the ONS lists of ALL names given last year - literally 1000s of them. Even the top 100 make up less than 10%!

"I wish women would stop being so disdainful of other women's choices."

This is a board for people to express their opinions. The op asked us a questions and we're answering. These opinions are no more disdainful than the many responses to more unusual names, calling them 'pretentious', 'strange' or 'too foreign sounding'.

"I wish parents were more open to names outside the top 100 - there are so many beautiful, interesting sounding names to choose from!!"

But that's part of the trouble surely. Isabel, and many of the so called overused names on here, were outside the top 100, approx 20 years ago.

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.