Calling all private school teachers

[champagneduvin]

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?

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

Why the dig? The OP could be an author looking for a character name for all you know.

Btw, you used a comma instead of a full stop at the end of your sentence. Not really an issue but since you have an interest in punctuation...

Really Maria? Must get astounding results then.

Yes, results are excellent. When you exclude families of chavs, narcissists, etc by sorting by first name and use traditional European MC names as a proxy for hardworking focused families you create a results focused culture!

Wow. With attitudes like that I’m very glad my children (whose names have been mentioned) go to school without such terrible snobbery and attitudes. They may be European MC but they are learning to judge people based on their words and deeds. Getting very good grades too.

It’s just a shortcut to sift quickly and efficiently through far too many applications!

We've got Grace, Stephanie, Milana, Elle, Lily, Theodora (Thea), Willow, Carolina, Elsie, Imogen, Bergamot, Harriet.

Maria why don’t you put that in the prospectus? I would guarantee you’d get far fewer applicants.

On the contrary!

What an odd thread!

Surely it’s going to be regional. DD’s school there were lots of

Maya
Noor
Anaiya
Ananya
Shivani
Vritika

Alongside the usual
Sophia
Mia
Isabella
Emily

Also Sofia, Natascha, Lilia, Daria, Yasmin

As reflected in a multicultural private school in a multicultural city

I'm not a teacher but in my dd school they tend to be individual names so not many that are repeated.
E.g there are only 2 Emily, 1 Tarquin, lots of foreign names, then traditional names like Oliver, William, Thomas or less popular like Alfie, Robbie.

Girls are Charlotte, Anna, Phoebe, Alice, Molly, so a good mix of traditional, modern and Foreign.

Some of the girls mentioned above will be 10 years old or more so, if you're asking because you're having a baby soon, have a look at this list based on birth announcements in the Daily Telegraph (the updated list should be coming soon):

www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2018/01/most-popular-names-in-the-telegraph-2017.html

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

👏

Seren, Phoenix, Maya, Ellie, Isabelle.

I suppose Phoenix isn't common, but cropping up more than once made it stand out to me.

Maria- finding this VERY hard to believe but if what you say is true- which names on your hugely popular shortlist would get discounted then? Which accepted immediately?

Having gone to private school myself and been around 90 girls with hugely varied names, if we did well in the entrance exam/impressed headmistress in interview and our parents could pay the fee- THIS was the successful entry deciding criteria, not what our name was...

I have a feeling Maria is trolling for reactions. There is no way a school would choose pupils in that way.

which names on your hugely popular shortlist would get discounted then? Which accepted immediately?

You are misunderstanding. First names are not the sole admissions criterion. There are, as in any school, many criteria.

I thought Maria was quite clearly taking the piss, rather than trolling... Did I miss her point?

Schools use all sorts of selection criteria for admissions. Why are first names, which are freely chosen by parents (and are therefore a highly reliable indicator of the social status they desire for their family) a worse criterion than religion, attendance at church (synagogue etc), ability to fund fees, likelihood of contributing to fundraising, professional network, social network, geographic location...?

I thought Maria was being sarcastically jokey too?

Where I work there's a wide range of names and a lot of the names are from other cultures but among the most popular names, I guess:

Isabella, Annabelle, Emily, Amelia, Olivia, Jemima
Oliver, Daniel, George, Harry, Jack, Sam

Not that dissimilar to a standard ranked baby names list, I don't think.

Is this thread a piss-take ? Please say it is.

MariaNovella surely you’re not being serious?

Surely a school wouldn’t throw out an application because of a child’s given name?

Yes, results are excellent. When you exclude families of chavs, narcissists, etc by sorting by first name and use traditional European MC names as a proxy for hardworking focused families you create a results focused culture!

traditional European MC names I think this comment on its own shows why I called Maria a troll.

Lily
Imogen
Evie (more than you can shake a stick at)
Amelia
Eliza
Daisy
Isobel
Emma

Parent here, not a teacher. My kids school 50% of the boys are called: Harry, George, Freddie, Archie. 50% of the girls are called Isabella/Isobel and Annabel/Arabella. I find it extraordinary! I sometimes say to another parent "which Harry there are so many?" and they look at me like I am a crazy woman.

I had one child at grammar school and one at a secondary modern. The names of their friends was a source of much secret amusement to me. There was some cross over but very little.