Did you choose a popular (top ten) name? Do you regret it?

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Just that really. DC 1 due soon and our favourite name for a boy and a girl are both in the current top ten. If you chose a popular name, has this bothered you once the child gets a bit older and you meet many more at school/nursery? I know a lot of people avoid popular names so I'ld love to hear experiences from people who have gone with them. Thanks.

Yes - but these are names that I've liked since I was young (many years ago...) when they weren't popular, so I wasn't going to go for names that were 'meh' simply to be youneeq. We have an unusual surname, so it balances out.

What, like the Royal family, Sunny? Or as I said, ar you not counting them as posh? What with their Williams and Jameses and Henrys and Louises and Georges................

There is a Columbus somewhere, I admit..........

lol no I do not count them as 'posh' per se, they are a diffrent lot altogether.
I guess they do not need to try as hard as the parents of little Mint and Cress, Cosmo and Arlo.

Arlo's not posh! Arlo's Hackney (or otherwise known as trendy with money).

Pandora, bless the baby Gary, keeping the name alive. I bet he's the only one in the school!

loololololol thanks Marigold, I just threw it in cos my bro called his kid Arlo and he really does think he is rather posh.

I can't get away from the Harlow association as my parents live there and most people who live there generally call the place, 'Arlo'.

To me it is just Harlow with an Essex accent.

yes yes, totally Harlow! If only they had called their daughter Dagenham!
Mind you they did call her after a Ford Car, so there could be a connection now I think of it. Oh no it was Renault, my mistake.

I've got a friend in Dagenham and she calls it (tongue in cheek), Da'jEE'nam (with the 'j' making a 'je' sound like 'I am' in French). Is the daughter Cleo? I like that name, a lot more than Arlo.

dajeeeenam - funny!
Yes Cleo it was!

Cleo is cool. Not sure about them together, but hey ho, not my kids. Sorry for derailing thread a bit, OP.

I gave DD1 a name that became very popular in a fairly short space of time. I do feel a little miffed now. However, we don't know many others with that name. But one has just recently joined her year group, (its a big school so it's not overrun with them though!)

I had an unusual, and sort of posh name, and when I was at secondary school in the 80's I hated it. I got a bit of stick for it and I just wanted to be called Sam or Michelle or Cheryl or similar. I hated standing out as I was, and still am, quite shy. I think this affected my choice for dd1 and I really didn't want a stand out name. equally though I'm not so keen on dd1 being one of quite a few. I'm sure it will be worse when she gets to secondary school. Though she is fairly unassuming and shy too so maybe she'll be happy with a fairly popular name.

DD2 has a top 100 name - I think it will rise a bit more, but possibly not as much. I'm happier with her name really. Although I do love both names.

I agree that some names are popular but classic. Maybe that's the way to go.

Are you the sort to regret things? I do a bit, I wish I cared less. maybe think about how you react in a general way.

You could choose to call your daughter something classic, but not in the top ten, or even one hundred, only for a celebrity to choose it and there be an explosion of them. This happened with my dd2's name, and my own. For thirty years I only knew of four others with my name - two famous actresses, and two cousins, then along popped a hollywood baby, and bam, I'm in the top 20. You cannot protect against this sort of thing, you just have to sulk about it.

Yes for both my children and no I don't regret it.

I have a top 10 name (of my time) and I feel it gives me privacy should people ever wish to google me.

Don't get the fashion for faddy celeb-style names. All seems so try-hard.

My eldest son has a very popular name; my daughter and baby son don't have names in the top 100 - but they are timeless hebrew names that everybody has heard of - that actually really go with DS1's name.

I don't regret DS1's name as there aren't too many around here (usually a couple in his year group) and it really suits him.

Eaugh, no way. I loathe top 10 names, unless they're from somewhere like Norway.

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