What are the most overused baby names you know at the moment?

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Trying to decide on a name for DC2 at the moment and would like something that won't seem "dated" in so many years to come.

There's a few names I keep hearing pop up at baby groups etc that feel a bit "faddy" and "of the moment" and would like to avoid that if possible. Hoping to avoid a name that becomes the Tracey, Sharon, David or Gary etc of this generation.

I've noticed a lot of names hyphenated with Rose, (which is an absolutely beautiful name) but kind of has the shine taken off it when its so overused in various combinations.

What names make you think "oh, not another one!?"

I find it quite interesting how Ezra is all of a sudden popular, I have an old uncle named Ezra, the only one I ever knew until recently. My grandparents named all their children from the Bible so I have always seen it as an older, Baptist name, perhaps more common in the Carribbean as that's where they are from. Funny how it's really trendy now!

Prob because George Ezra

Also Ezra in Pretty Little Liars

But Theo(dore) doesn't work in France and the UK. It is Théodore in France and sounds a bit like Tayo-dore.

Yes t eo - is how the French parents would pronounce it and Theo for those that didn’t soeak French.

Ps It clearly does as I know 4 sets of French parents living in the uk that have used it!

Elodie (I know 3)
Edie/Evie
Maya/Amaia
Ada/Aida/Ava

Arlo
Fin/Finn
Felix

It obviously works for other parents too as there are a lot of little Theos around.
I know a French family with an Ethan and a Spanish couple also with an Ethan. The parents say it Efan.

Excellent tool for anyone that's interested:

www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/how-popular-your-baby-name-11211651.amp

We have an 80 place nursery and these are our most common names:
Oscar x 4
Riley x4
Evie x3
Amelia x2
Ethan x4
Oliver x3
Thomas x3
Louie x3

Names that we don't currently have multiples of but have seen lots of through the last few years are:
Lilly
Olivia
Isabelle/Isobel
Max
Sophia
Ella

Also
Reuben x 2
Noah x 2

Eve, Evie.

So surprised that Beau is considered popular!!

It is my baby boy’s middle name; I did not see it anywhere and it was absolutely nowhere the top 100. I did post it on here though! Neither his or my Dds first name has been mentioned though, and they are definitely not “eweneek” names

Fred
Wilfred

How do you pronounce Nevaeh ?

Most baby boys I know in the last 4 years have been called Jack.

Girls names I have seen a lot are:

Willow
Lola
Isabelle

My daughter's name has been mentioned Here, I would much rather have a 'common' name than trying to be different.

How do you pronounce Nevaeh

Well I’ve never met one, but I think it’s nev-AYER (like layer, without the L).

you can tell when the kids were born.

Mia, Ava, Sophie, Paige, Olivia, Amelia

Finlay, Alfie, Harry, Jack

When considering names for DD, I really liked Ava but glad I chose against it as every other girl is called that and I had a lot of people in my class with similar names.

But there's also a danger of having a name that's too unusual or 'wrong' for that generation, or location.

We're in the west of Scotland, quite a deprived area. Names are either in the top ten or those who dare to be different choose awful hyphenated names like tallulah-mae. Any parent who uses a name like Florence, Ivy or Geoffrey for examples is mocked by other parents.

In Lanarkshire I've seen a few Jacobs and Josephs but no real glut of any one kind of name at the baby groups I take DS to.
I'm interested to hear Arlo is common. I've never met one but a few people have mistaken DS' unique name for it and I must admit to being a little peeved. For background, his name is Arlen. The only one born in Scotland in 2017 and named for a character in a fantasy novel that I'm sure is fairly cultish.

We agreed not to have a 'Top 10' name, as I didn't want my child to be like one of the 8 Katys in my year at secondary school!

A boy name we had early on, but girl names were tougher. Our policy lead to conversations that went:
DH: Olivia?
Me: Number 3.

DDs middle name is one of the popular name of her cohort, but only because it was the name of DH's grandma who died about a week before I found out I was pregnant with DD so I really thought that it should be the middle name if it was a girl.

Kids are at a Jewish school, so common names maybe slightly different from standard.

Lots of Ariellas (or variations like Ayelah)
Fair amount of Phoebes, Saskia and Zara

Boys it's:
Joe
Reuben
Rafi
Tom
Charlie

My dd2 starts school in September, she had a transition day today and in a class of 15 there's 3 Elsa's and 2 max's (I know 7-8 other max's and 2 other Elsa's and a pregnant woman and I did roll my eyes when she said elsa was her baby's name)

Any thing xxx-mae or xxx-leigh does my nut, just so over used around here :(

3 charlie's in my sons class and 2 freds. Maisie, Noah, Amelia, Evie, tom, matilda seem popular too...

My 'Godson' now 16 is called Rowan and at the time and just after every other kid I met was called Rowan!

I don’t know any Henry’s! It’s a great name

Isla. It's everywhere here where I live.

My first born's name was and still is very popular. I tried hard with no2 to get something more unique but not too way out.