What names are considered 'mum names'?

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I was on an American forum and someone commented that a name was such a 'mom name' in the US (ie very popular with women in their 30s)? Just wondered what the equivalent names are in the UK right now?

Joanne/ Joanna and Claire/ Clare at my kids school.

Which (un)remarkably coincides with the names that were always owned by multiple girls in my school classes.

My name has been mentioned 7 times already!

@aoibhe you forgot Niamh and Aisling!

Kerry
Kelly
Karen
Debbie
Tracey
Julie
Stephanie
Jenny
Sue
Lisa
Lindsey
Elizabeth
Vicky
Becky
Claire
Christine
Janice
Jane
Angela
Dawn
Anne
Marie
Tanya
Leanne
Joanne/a
Emma
Vanessa
Natalie
Pamela

Jennifer, Alison, Philippa, Sue, Deborah, Annabel too

I wrote this song for you!

Based on the mums at DD's school, I would say;

Emma
Caroline
Sarah
Nicky/Nicola
Hannah
Helen
Kate/Katie/Katy
Laura
Michelle/Shelley
Gemma
Rachel

Joanne
Michelle
Nicola
Melanie
Sarah
Emma
Rachel
Rebecca

There were 3 Laurens and 3 Lauras in my class at secondary school, plus all of the above. My name has been mentioned several times.

Georgina is the most common mum name in our school playground! I know 6 in a tiny village school.

Claire
Gemma
Emma
Catherine
Annabelle
Sarah
I know 3x plus of each.

I'm 40. My friends range between 28-45. The most common names are Becky, Nicky, Gemma, Vicky, Lisa, Sam, Kelly, Jen/Jenny, Sarah, Louise, Jo and Leanne

Oh yeah and Laura and Katie

laura
lorna
emma
kate
susan
clare
fiona

Linda.

'Mum' names are ones that were very popular about 25 years before you were born, or before your baby was born.

From a U.K. perspective:

Carol
Barbara
Margaret
Frances
Sandra
Jane
Brenda
Jean
Joan
Linda
Sharon
Leslie
Eileen
Jill
Pamela

Emma
Lisa
Nicola
Kate
Laura

Sally
Charlotte
Claire
Vicki
Sarah
Kayleigh
Natalie
Michelle
Danielle
Gemma

Sarah
Catherine and various spellings thereof
Gillian
Lyndsey and other spellings
Rebecca
Emma
Rachel
Hannah
Helen
Clare and other spellings
Amy
Victoria

As well as those already mentioned:

Melissa
Stacey
Cheryl
Donna

Dad names would probably be names like Paul, Andrew, Mark, Stephen, Lee, Richard, Christopher, Simon, Gavin, Ian, Anthony, Gary

Usable "Mum" names? All of them 😀

Emma, Sarah, Hannah, Rachel, Claire, Nicola, Rebecca, Kate, Amy...

All useable, and others listed. Of course they are!

I think a lot of the names on this thread are usable. In fact I actually did use one of the names mentioned for my daughter!