What girls names do you hear all the time?

[Bobian123]

Just that really. I have a shortlist but would rather not go for anything that's overly popular. So instead of me telling you the names, could you say what names you hear a lot?!

Based purely on the names of children in DD's pre-school & the children of friends I would say;

Olivia
Ellie (often hyphenated with something else such as May or Rose)
Lily
Amelia
Emelia
Maddie (for both Madeleine & Maddison)
Maisie
Isabelle/Isabella/Bella etc.
Lily
Imogen

These are all nice names however (with the exception of Imogen).

High school teacher here.
Hannah/Charlotte/Amy/Lauren/Abigail/jessica/Sophie

I don't think you can second guess what will happen with a name. Zoe, for example - I know of several young Zoes. Repeated in some classes here. Yet NO Eves or Ava's in the entire school where I work and only one of each in dd's school. Pretty harsh to say you have failed if your child's name is repeated. Maybe we should use identifying names like NeverSleepsThroughAtWeekends or ChewsWipes. My dd would be SnortsLikeAPigletWhenEating.

Against the MN vein, I actively tried to give my DC Claire/Louise/Sarah type names rather than anything unusual. I have no doubt they will stand out from the crowd if they wish and they will stand out because of what they do. Sometimes, though, it is nice to be able to blend in too and their names will, i hope give them that option.

Phoebe

There are Phoebes everywhere.

few years ago you couldnt walk down a street without hearing some nasal parent shouting "lily! ruby! amelia!" after their terrible tots; Lily and Amelia are still very popular but Im hearing less rubies lately. Now there's a whole influx of little Islas and quite a few Avas too.

Imogen is an odd one. There are a few locally to me too. Maybe it foreshadows a return of the Carols and Sharons

Eve, Eve, Evie.

Amelia
Isabelle
Evie
Lily
Grace
Chloe
Ruby

names I like
Jane
Mary
Elizabeth
Tess
Katherine
Jennifer
Sybil

Isla!

Lily
Evie
Isla
Ava
Scarlett
Amelia
Olivia
Isabelle

My own name has been mentioned frequently on this thread, I don't know any other adults who share my name but there are legions of under fives. I quite like it that it is now popular.

To all those saying 'choose a name you like rather than worry about popularity', the OP did say she didn't want a popular name. It's confusing for loads of kids to be called Lily. If your DD is called Amelia, I'm sure she's absolutely lovely but when you introduce your child with it's overly popular name, I just think meh.

Names I hear all the time...Evie, Lily, Lola, Ruby, Amelia and Isabella/Isobel.

There were so many Sarah's/Laura's in my year at school it was ridiculous. They all ended up being called nicknames.

Lily, Lola, Isla, Layla, etc
Molly, Milly, Tilly, Ellie, Ella etc
Maya, Mia, Maia etc
Scarlett and Charlotte
Darcey
Amelia, Emily, Emilia etc
Isabel
Chloe
Eva and Ava

Oh yes and Ruby!

Evie, Ellie, Lily, Grace.

Amelia, Ruby

Angels mentioned earlier that her dd's class had an Ella, 2 x Bella and 2 x Isabella. They are going to all look round every time they hear the Ella sound!

of my friends with children there are quite a few Daisy, Lily, Grace, Ella and Evie or Evelyns.

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Beatrice/trix. I know loads.

Tilly is the commonest though. Tripping over them here.

Lilly, Rose, Ruby, Lola, Willow. All nice but far too popular now.

I forgot to add, violet and Sienna. Lovely but now hugely popular.