"MN names"

[Totality22]

A thread on AIBU made me think that there are certain names I see getting a lot of love on MN but never hear in RL

Sylvie
Beatrix
Milo
Sebastien

There are loads more but I can't think? What other names are MN approved?

Cassian
Romilly
Genevieve

Apollo....

Oh dear, I gave a RL Sylvie...!!!

Cordelia

*have

I had never heard of anybody called Ptolemy or Persephone until I came on MN

I have a Sylvie middle name Beatrix

I did actually consider Genevieve for DD but we couldn't agree how to pronounce it. We went for Jennifer instead but DS still calls her Genevieve pronounced the way he wanted it to be pronounced ( jon-vee-ev rather than jen-i-veev) it's become his pet name for her

Clara and Penelope seem to be the other common ones. I've never met any young children with these names and don't get me started on Sylvie!

I would say romilly too.

In fact, pretty much anything outside the top 100.

high fives Felix

I see Ptolemy and Thaddeus on here fairly frequently but never in RL.
I do know one Sebastian and one Milo though.

I love reading the baby name board even though I last gave birth a decade ago. I bet that half the potential Ptolemy and Persephone's on here really end up being called James or Sophie et al though!

tilder I have a DD with an outside the top 100 name but it's still a pretty 'normal' name!

Persephone, I have never heard this in rl yet it seems popular here.

p.s. we chose Sylvie before I joined Mumsnet, if that helps. I had no idea it was a Mumsnet name, and actually am not sure it is. There are 3 Sylvies in our village that I know of.

Ottilie. I'd never even heard of it until I came on here.

You do have to wonder whether some names just seem popular on here though (like, someone might like a name but not call their child it iyswim).

I havent meet a single imogen in my life but it seems to be a popular choice in mn.

I know someone who called his son Milo. Just before The Tweenies first aired.

Really nolim? We had Imogen on our list but didn't use it because it's so popular around here, I know at least 4 or 5 little girls named Imogen (maybe all my friends are secret mumsnetters?)

I know a Clara (baby) and have met Imogens aplenty.

Really. Is imogen a name that came out of fashion and is back? Are there any famous imogens? Doesnt sound very traditional but i may be wrong.

Gabriel and Jude, always suggested on here but I've never met one. Well, I know a Jude, but she's a 40ish year old woman, not a little boy...

Oh and Anna. Not unusual in itself, but I don't know any tiny ones. Plenty of annabelles and hannahs but no annas.