Boys names popular at nursery atm

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All you parents/teachers out there...

Tell me what are the popular boys names in nursery and reception class atm? Is there a few of the same you notice?

Want to avoid a popular name for our little boy ❤️

I work in a nursery.
We have 3 Noels at the moment, 2 Ethans and 2 Lucas'. Thats it for duplicates.

My sons in reception and there are a few Oliver's Daniel's and Alex/Alexander's aswell as Oscar.
My son is bailey and have never known another one in any of his class or nursery.
My other son is Frankie and again still have yet to meet another one

"Want to avoid a popular name for our little boy"

Maybe look up the baby name rankings for the last few years? Could be statistically more significant than a random sample of mumsnetters?

Just a thought.

You can pick a statistically unusual name and still have 2 in a class - names sometimes "trend" in areas while remaining fairly unusual statistically.

DS1's name didn't make the top 100 list the year he was born and is now number 36 where we live, but there's another one in his class. Ds2's name is number 11 where we live but we have never met another child with the name locally of any age and there isn't one at his school or as far as the older kids are aware at theirs.

Leo, Archie, Oliver, lucas, Luke, and Reilly are the duplicated names in the nursery my youngest attends.

The duplicates in our reception class are Charlie and Tommy.

The only boy duplicates in ours is Oliver.

Jumping on this thread to ask, how do people know the popular names in their area as opposed to nationally? I have googled and can’t find anything. Sorry to high jack

I have 2 boys with a top 10 name but I never encountered any others with the same name. Other 2 have top 30 names and also never encountered another.

My 4 year old has 3 Adams in his class and I wouldn't have thought that was a poplar name.

Noah and Theo

Thank you everyone ☺️ names always come and go and I know that...but being as we are putting a list together just wanted to rule out the really common/popular ones! My husband was one of like 10 with the same name 🙈 I've looked at all the lists already of popular names/top 100 but interested to hear what people are hearing a lot of!

I work in a doctors surgery so we often see a pattern of certain names and of course very very unusual names too!!

Duplicate Theos in ours.

Other popular names I've met more than one of:

Hugo
Max
Oscar
Arlo

Dexter
Theo
Luca
Ethan
Noah
Arlo

Oh and max

Three Harrys in dd’s class (but she is six so a little older), ds has two Berties but I’m not sure that is very typical!

I do agree this is very regional (and, class based), as well as cultural and religious heritage.

champy87 Do ONS not do by region? I'm sure they do.

There is no duplicates in my little boys play group and I'm yet to come across any at baby groups. He has a top 10 name for the year of his birth

Ollie/Harry/Bobby/Victoria/Dylan

Really really surprised at Noel!!

Theo, Freddie, Felix, henry/ harry

You can get really unpopular names and still have duplicates, but also popular names and have no duplicates.

When my DD was born 20 years ago there were 70 others that had the same name, she ended up in Y2 with another girl with the same name. Her name has been has since been in the top 100 for over 10 years now.

Likewise in her secondary school with about 100 in her year, there were NO Emilys.

Last year:
Leo
Eli
Jayden
James x 2
Sasha
Rowan
AJ
Matthew

This year
Caoin
Cameron
Jacob
Charlie
Finn

Oh yeah, last year also Noah

Theo, Ollie, Max as well! Forgot those!