Every girl in DD's reception class has a name ending in "a"

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Every single one of them. 14 girls from all over the world, and none have names ending in any other sound / letter.

I knew these girls names were popular, I had no idea quite how much!

Just realised three of my dd's have names ending in a.

My dd has a name ending in a 'a' is not very popular though

Lots of girls name do, or end in an a sound, like Hannah. Our surname begins with an A so we had to try quite hard to avoid them.

In quite a few languages ending a name in 'a' denotes that it is feminine. Eg Nicholas for a boy Nicola for a girl. Could that be the reason or at least a factor?

Both mine end in 'a'

It's pretty similar at my DD's preschool. Including her name!

Most of the girls in DD's class end in an 'ee' sound, but there is about half a dozen with different sounds; a, et, an, ay. F

My name ends in A

You could meet at least another 100 people before you come across my name again though.

I had a boy but was trying to avoid "a" names as DP's surname ends in "ner" and I didn't want it to be too rhymey.

I don't think of them as a collection of names though. You can get lots of different types of names that are nothing alike that just happen to end in a.

All the girls at my DS's nursery do too. Many are European, and have Italian/Spanish and French names.

It's interesting though. All of my favourite girls names in case DS was a girl ended in 'a'.

Damn vowels. Defiling perfectly good names with their voweliness.

Most little girls I know end in an "ee" or "ahh" sound. DD's name ends in a consonant but is a complete marmite name and often gets a very "oh that's.......nice" response.

The names are popular for a reason I suppose!

Looking at my nursery class her I have names ending in the following sounds: 'ay', 'ee', 'uh' and 'n'. That is out of 19 girls.

Some of it is due to European names, yes. But I wonder why we've gone from having classes of Louise, Eve and Emily to Louisa, Eva and Emilia - can't just be forrin influence?

As does mine - here and in RL. And my sisters, niece, and mother, grandmother. And my middle name, and my sisters' middle names. My family was brought to you today by the letter 'A'.

Last year I had a Y11 class where all but 3- boys and girls- had names ending in ee sound. Weird!

I've just thougt my female colleagues too; the vast majority - over 3/4s are 'a' ending names too. Again, lots of nationalities represented. Mine doesn't - I'm starting to feel left out.

Not sure it is a French thing, as most French girls' names I can think of end in 'ie' such as:

Amelie
Sophie
Aurelie
Fanny
Félicie
Sylvie
Orphelie
Camille
Julie

So what? There are loads of names ending in "a" so it's hardly a fad! Hell, my own name ends in "a" and I'm in my thirties.

I know it's not a new thing for girls names to end in "a ", EmilyGilmore (no a there ). I'd just not come across a whole class worth of them before

Like in Chalet Girl?

'Arabella, Henrietta, Isabella, Petronella... Kim.'

I remember when DS was in reception 4 of his girl classmates were called;
Tia
Mia
Leigha
&
Kiah

Made me giggle

Wow. I know -a names are popular, but you would have expected a Maisie or Emily or something!

Thats quite odd isnt it Id expect a Sophie or a Madison or something thrown in to the mix.

DDs name ends in a hard G. Not many of them to the pound.

It is weird.

Neither of DDs names end in A, but I liked many that do. I'm just a rebel.