Does it bother you....

[Poptart4]

.... If your childs name is in the top 20 names in the country?

Im due September, dont know what im having yet but the only girls name i really like is in the top 20 :(

Of course whatever name i pick there will be other children with it but is top 20 too many?

Oh! I also called my dog an unusual name 12yrs ago.... every second kid called it now 😂

I think DS' name is relatively popular, we didn't/haven't checked tbh. It doesn't bother me at all.

I had loads of boys names I really liked but the one he ended up with was the only one we could actually agree on so didn't really have a choice haha.

I think once you name a child you will notice if others are called it more if that makes sense. I've not heard of a baby girl called Chloe in years. If you love it go for it!

Wenhave to names for our second son we are expecting. One is in the top 100 which annoys me and one isn't currently in the top 100. BUT, on another forum I am on, someone has posted about helping to name her child and 5 other mums said this name, so it is obviously gaining popularity.

Doesn’t bother me. DD has a top 20 name because it’s a name I’ve loved since childhood. She’s the only one with the name at her nursery.

The trouble is, you can never tell how popular a name will be in your local area. Isla is very popular according to the ONS lists, and yet I only know 1 locally. DC1's name was in the 90´s in the list the year she was born, only came across 1 other in 4.5 years and then there turned out to be a child with the same name in the class when we started school. I personally did avoid names in the top 20 (Sophie/Sophia, Amelia and Isabel/Isabella or Alfie/Oscar/Harry are the common ones near us).

The main thing is to choose a name you love.

I love Chloe - go for it!

DD's name is very popular, but she is named after my grandmother and DH and I had always planned to use this name before it became so popular. There is another girl in her class with the same name but it's not a issue. We still love it!

I chose a name in the 200’s for ds. Not many around but we’ve met children with the same name at baby group, one at school (different class though), at festivals etc. So choosing a less popular name doesn’t guarantee they will be the only one.

There are so many of the top 10 names around though, when we did baby swimming in a group of 7, 4 of them were called Isabelle or a variant. As a child or a parent, that would have really bugged me!

I knew my ds's name was in the top ten when we named him.
We went back and forth and tried to pick another, but the thing is, the name was after a Grandfather and we really wanted it.

Believe me, a name is not what makes a person interesting. My ds11 is a little story writer and is obsessed with the idea of becoming a stand-up comedian.

I was a Sarah growing up in the 70's. There were so many of us I was given I nick name that still follows me today. I grew up to be an artist. I still think Sarah is a beautiful name.

My fiend was very smug about her 'unusual' name until they all went to school and she 3 others there. She was horrified!
You can never tell.

Always pick a name you love, no matter what.

You can use ons data to find out how many kids in your region born in a given year have your chosen name. Personally, it would bother me to have one in the top twenty (we didn't even want to go top 100!) but it's a personal thing. Although, I did read that the number one cause of name regret is it being too popular.

I called DD1 a name that I had loved for years. She knows several others with her name, but that was only after she moved away from her home area. DD2 has an ordinary name with a slightly unusual spelling and until very recently, she was the only one in Scotland with that spelling. TBH, I didn't give a shit what was popular or not. I was more concerned with not naming either of them after someone I knew, as both the families were very bad for generations of people with the same name.

Oh Chloe is a lovely name! I think you should go for it!

I had one of those very popular names, always one of several at school. I changed it by deed poll when I was 18.

My sons name wasn’t in the top 100 in the year of his birth but he is now 12 and there’s 3 with the same name in his class and 6 in his year!

That is very unusual!

My sister agonised for ages naming her dd - she had to have the perfect name that was rare and not overused. She went for something not even on the ons charts (and was quite smug about it being ‘unique’)

Ff 8 years she is on her second marriage to her new dh, who also has a dd a year younger than my niece, who has the same first and middle names! So my sister has a dd and a dsd with the exact same name!

Doesn't bother me. We frequently go places where at least one other child has the same name (although strangely none in the same nursery class). It was more important to like the name and there weren't many we liked!

Chloe's a lovely name. There was a lot of Chloe's around when my two were little (early 00's) but I don't seem to hear so many little ones called Chloe now.

I like Chloe and wouldn’t say it’s particularly common where I am. I know one. I have a name that is surprisingly common for people my age - Most of these name-mates I met when I went to uni and onwards, at school I was quite unusual. Anyway it doesn’t bother me. It’s just a name after all and my nickname is more meaningful to me (also I don’t actually like my name that much so that’s a whole different thing).

Also very unusual names make you extremely easy to find on a google search etc. I often wonder if people take that into account when that are so keen to deliberately choose a very rare name.

My first child is an Emily which is solidly in the top 10, and we do come accross the odd Emily but it dosent worry me and it's not as often as you think! We named our second Albert thinking it would be unusual but actually we've come across quite a few since he was born, so it's not I.possible for there to be 2 in a class even with a more unusual name! As long as you love the name then go with it, I'm a great believer that children have names we need to find rather than we get to choose their names x

Top 100 really doesn’t bother me, my DS and DD are somewhere in the middle of the top 100. Top 20 does bother me though and I would be hesitant, especially top 10. They’re just too overdone and I appreciate fashions change but certain names literally never leave the top ten.

My two D.C. have top twenty names .

They are named after family members.

I couldn’t give a rats arse if they’re popular as to us they are the only x and x in the world. As well as that we named them with sentimental reasons so being popular doesn’t come into it

Don't get hung up on this top ten name business.
Mine and my daighters names are in the top 5 yet I don't work with anyone with the same name. And there's only 1 other girl at school with my daughters name. YET it's the top 5!
But they are national statistics. Regionally clearly they aren't top 5!

There are no certainties. My eldest son has a very unusual name. Started school and THREE boys all with the same name in the same damn class!

But then his name isn't unusual

Our chosen name is in the top 10 and I'm not worried about it at all.

If you think about it there are so many names given that even if you get the most common, it's never like it's 50% of all babies named that, it's always something like 2% (and a name in the ranking 50-100 is more like 0.02%) and something rarer even less likely.

They might well meet others with their name but why is that a problem? You just end up with Big Dave and Little Dave or Sam Green and Sam White. It doesn't matter at all.

My name has recently entered top 20 having never been in it before. Lots of babies with the same name as me now! No guarantees that a really unique name won't be extremely popular in a few years. I say if you are in love with a name, go for it.