Calling all private school teachers

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What are the most popular girls names being used at private schools at the moment?

In my days it was Elizabeth’s and Katrina’s.
What are they now?

Depends on the private school!

Some are full of Hatties, Arabellas and Imogens.

Others are full of:
Chantelle, Rosa, and Tia’s

Now I think about it:
Lucy Emily India Sophia Florence
Are probably in all of them 😂

All lovely names and most of them are also found in state schools.

People I know at private school are Emily x 2, Olivia, Molly, George, William so usual top ten names.

Grace, Gabriella, Raphaela, Raven, Georgina, Abigail, Leila, Addie, Alivia, Hana.

Depends where the school is.

Phoebe, Beatrice, Imogen, Freya, Ava, Emily, Sophie, Grace, Aurora, Isabella, Eleanor.

Lily, Ella and Olivia seem to have fallen downmarket.

Mia and Maya.

You do know they don’t allow kids into private schools based on their names. What an odd thread.

Sorry just realised that the OP said most popular. In my eldest dds year it would be Grace by a very long way. There are literally 14 of them. They even have school photos captioned "a collection of Graces" when 6 are gathered together for some reason.

Lots of Isabella’s...

You do know they don’t allow kids into private schools based on their names. What an odd thread.

First names are one of the main selection criteria at our DC’s school.

Really Maria? Must get astounding results then.

At least 50% of the names in DD's year are not of English origin. There seem to be very few duplicates.

In my days it was Elizabeth’s and Katrina’s.

Shame they didn't teach you how to use apostrophes at your private school,

There are a lot of Charlottes, Isabelles and Amelias where I teach. Nice names though.

The most popular girl name in the private school I work at is Matilda. Daisy and Florence are also very popular.

Aurora, Sophia, Kate and Harriet are really popular at my sons school.

Girls: Maddie (Madeline), Tilly (Mathilda), Hattie (Harriet), Annabelle, Arabella, Amelia, Sophia.

Boys: Oscar, Thomas, Benedict, William

Popular names here are:
Isabelle/Isabella/Isobel
Emily/Amelie/Amelia/Emilia/Millie
Charlotte
Lucy/Lucie
Olivia/Livi
Lily
Madeleine
Sophie/Sophia/Sofia
Evie/Eva/Eve
Katie/Kate/Katherine/Catherine/Katrina/Katerina/Kitty
Jessica
Scarlett
Eleanor/Ellen/Ella/Ellie

@BiggerBoat1 You beat me to it. High five

Re apostrophe use; pleurals nouns don’t take one obviously but some writers will use one in nouns that aren’t normally pleural for clarity or for instance in ‘Mind your p’s and q’s’. This is acceptable grammar.

Missing the point here but should it not be "plural"?

I would put 'Ps and Qs', 'p's and q's' looks bloody awful.

Here's some of the popular ones at a school my DH works with sometimes:

William
Henry
Thomas
Sebastian (there were several)
James
Edward

Isobelle
Franccesca
Catherine
Lily
Georgia

My dd’s friendship group (in Surrey):

Eleanor, Elizabeth, Olivia, Rebecca, Beth, Florence, Emma

Most common by far though is still Emily, though Ava is gaining on it