Please no more Finns or Tobys!

[akorda]

I mean they're great names, but every other child I meet in London at the moment has one of these names. And every mother says "I thought they were so unusual" and seems disappointed.
Well I thought I'd warn those who are considering these names and think they are being unique that they're not and, if they mind about such things, to reconsider.
Sorry, just had to get that off my chest! It's been an irritating day
(and of course please call your child whatever you like!)

Agree heard of 4 Toby's born this year
Other 2016 names firing up in popularity

• Clara
• Hugo
• Elodie/ Eloise

I know of about 12 babies born this year all with these names

Are you secretly expecting twin boys that you want to call these names?

What do you do that every other child you meet is called these names?

Oh dear.

People have mentioned both my DD and my DS's names on this thread!

Just name your child something you like - unless you make something up of course they won't be the only child with that name but then sharing your name with someone is hardly disasterous. Me and a close friend share a name and it's never mattered at all.

Finlay is popular in Scotland
People don't use Toby much as round here it is slang for penis!

We have a good variety of boys' names round here now, but all baby girls seem to be called Ava/Eva/Isla.

When my DSs were little we were over run by Jacks and Harrys.

In fact DS2 has 6 Jacks in his year. He's close friends with 3 of them which is fun when he recounts a story

I get your point re: warning people that names they thought were unusual actually aren't...so many people seem to experience this and feel annoyed afterwards.

....Or Sophias (a nice-sounding name but OMG are they everywhere at the moment!)

For boys I trip over Teddys and Leos!

For OP wanting to use Tobias-just wanted to refer you to this.

Best to choose this name because you like it not because it's unusual!

Btw I think the Toby trend may have come from the Cheerios cereal box a year or so ago-I kid you not! I remember there being a Toby and a Lucy on the back for ages. I bet this helped it filter into public consciousness.

Finn I can't explain!

So interesting how name trends work!

People have mentioned Oscar... this was what I'm planning to call dc if a boy... I've not come across it on top baby name lists recently?

^ scrap my comment... just noticed a whole thread on it lol...

Have my very first op

We are knee deep in Finns here in SW London but I have never met a Toby. Leo, Oscar, Ethan and Freddie are the super-popular boys' names here.

I'll probably meet a baby Toby today, now I've said that

We have a lot of Finn's here in Oz, also lots of Hamish's and loads of Archie's

Girls seems to be still in the Emily, Emelia, Milly era.

Finn from Adventure Time I thought.