What names do YOU think are popular?

[cheddaraddict]

So, our new arrival is weeks away and I am becoming obsessed with the popularity of the names on our short list... Looking at the latest ONS statistics I'm struck by how it doesn't particularly reflect the names I hear a lot, for example I know no Amelias or Jacks but multiple Irises and Laurences. I imagine it's partially down to geography (I'm in London) but I'd be really interested to know what names you come across a lot among babies/ small children.

Oh yeah also Rosa and Isla and strangely three girls called Eloise.

Girls: Isla, Annabelle, Mia, Lily.
Boys: Alexander, Alfie.

If you want something guaranteed to be unique amongst peers how about Derek, Ian, Geoff, Anne, Eileen or Bernadette?

Hundreds of Ethans, Jacks, Sophies, Sophias and Isabels here. Also plenty of Lilys, Poppys and Amelies.

Everybody is calling their kid jude around here, and i hate it.

Oh and eve or variants and isabelle and variants, tedious!

When we were considering names for DD 3 yrs ago I knew no-one called Annabel, and now i know 6! Wasn't a name we liked but just now know so many!

We're in scotland and am surrounded by

Noah
Archie
Kaiden

Lexi
Eva
Sophie
Chloe
Darcey

There is 3 Amelias in my 6yr olds class

W Yorks
Isaac, Noah, Oliver, Jack

Olivia, Niamh (various spellings), Amelia, Phoebe

It's obvious - you just choose something that was popular in your mother's generation - that'll be v unusual and no one will like it but will be ahead of it's time by 20 years smile

That's exactly what my parents did - named me after my Dad's mother, everyone else was avoiding the old lady name like the plague and now I'm 40, my name is the most-repeated girls' name on this thread (starts with I). Way ahead of the curve.

Girls names I perceive to be overly popular:

My name and all its variants
Ava
Ruby
Evie
Isla
Daisy/Poppy, et al
Hannah
Sophie/a
Lily
Olivia
Amelia
Grace
May
Rose (as a middle / -hyphenated name)

Charlie
Archie
Harry
Oliver
Finn
Flynn
Jack
Max
Thomas/Tom

London - Olivia (loads) Sophie, Isabella, Maya, Maia. Jack, Noah, Callum, Zachary / Zach.

My boys have names that have cropped up loads on this list. When we chose them, we purposely went for names that everyone's heard of but weren't particularly popular. I knew loads of children before I had mine and had never come across any of these names. Now there's bloody loads of them irritating

Not so much a name but, for girls, but names with "l" sounds are all- pervading.

Ellie, Ella, Amelia, Lily, Molly, Alicia, Alisha, Elisha (and a million variants) Lola, Emily, Amelie, go forbid a girl's name should not have an L in it!

Im in Western Australia

Girls -
Isla (soooo many)
Ava
Charlie
Maddie
Olivia

Boys -
Kai
Xander
Jackson / Jaxon
Boston

NationMcKinley I know what you mean!!! We're the same!!

Violet, there are preschool age Vilets everywhere.

Is max popular in certain areas? No one has mentioned it

Boston, really? I've never heard of that name.

Eve and all its variants (Eva/Evie). This name is officially full and still they come...Most classes at DDs school have at least 3 Eve type names.

Isabel/lla

Lily, Amelia, Sophie

Ben, Oliver

Nation us too. Thought I was (and I was at the time!) being innovative. Was too clever - now lots of babies with DD1s (aged 9) name. Grrr

Olivia
Amelia
Evie
Lily
Ava

And soooo many with the middle name Grace!

Harrison
Ethan
Reuban
Noah

My DCs now in their 30s have names which are suddenly very popular. Names do go in and out of fashion.

I'm in the SE and the popular names I hear are

Sonny
Billy
Charlie
Alfie
Isaac

Amelia / Amelie
Fifi
Daisy
Maisie
Tilly / Milly / Millie

Dd started school today (inner city London) and I found it interesting that the sixty children in her year group had no name duplications at all. The nearest was Juliet/Julia. Probably about half the kids have migrant parents although some of them had the more traditional names we think of as English, eg a Romanian Edward.

In the north west I have come across a lot of:
Poppy, Lily, Eva/Evie/Ava, Emily/Emilia, grace, Mya/Mia/maya, sophie/Sophia, Florence
Oliver, Harry, Thomas, Noah, Isaac/Zac/Zachary

Thanks everyone, this is really interesting.

No mention of one of the names we like, only one mention of the other. Now I just need to decide how popular is too popular for us...

Boys

Reuben
Oliver
Ewan
Leo
Jenson

Girls

Olivia
Isla
Poppy
Florence
Mia
Sophie
Freya

Emmy/Emi/Emie/Emme seems increasingly popular here (Midlands).

Other babies I know of born in the last 12 months are;

Boys

George
William
Harry
Reid
Billy

Girls

Imogen
Isla
Amber
Seren
Sienna x 3

At toddler groups (so a bit older, but pre-school) there are a lot with Ell in somewhere - so Ella/Bella/Ellie/Isabelle/Isabella/Eleanor etc. Also Lily, Amelia/Emelia, Amelie, Katie and Emma. Boys of around 2/3/4 are almost always either Oscar, Jack, Oliver or Harry.