Noah

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I love the name Noah for DS3 due in summer, but worry about it's popularity. I've been reading the thread about popular names with interest. I would normally avoid such a popular name.

How many little Noahs do you know? Will it date badly? Should I even care?

Why is naming a baby such hard work?!

There are a handful of names that span multiple generations & may continue to do so - so you’d be looking at names like these

Sparklysunflower - ‘classic timeless’ will still not be guaranteed. The current girls trend for example is vowels & no back to back consonants between first & second names etc. So whether you choose Amelia Olivia or one way down the charts like Dulcie or Lyra - you’re still following the fashion trends of our generation.

Why does it worry you that Noah age 50 will sound like a 50 year old’s name?

By looking outside the top 100 there are thousands of other great names that are never 'fashionable'

We're not restricted to the top most trendy names when choosing a name for our baby.

It’s fine but dated. The ones I know are in their very late teens and early 20s. I suspect that boys’ Old Testament names like this will be out of fashion soon. Joshua, Ethan, Isaac, etc. You’d be safer with the more classic mainstream ones like Daniel.

To be honest, I think Flynn, Maxwell and Eli will also date very quickly too.

Do you know a Noah?

Makes me think of that twat on The Affair.

As a midwife I'd say Noah seems to be rising in popularity atm, but if you love it then go for it. Better to have a popular name that you love, over a less popular one that you're "meh" about

This is what I keep telling myself!
My eldest is Michael, known as Mikey, so has a timeless classic but my youngest is Rowan which is a bit more trendy at the moment I guess. I only know one Noah myself, who is 17 so it doesn't feel popular but there are around 25 born each year in my local borough in recent years.

I agree with pp that my other options are probably going to date as well. But then I have a 'dated' name and there has always been a couple of others in my classes or workplaces and it's never really bothered me.

Perhaps I'm just overthinking it!

I think Michael is quite dated - fell out of fashion prob 10 years ago

Your dated name will be a different experience because so many more people had the same name - even the very top names are now less than 1% of babies so statistically not the 2/3 a class of previous generations.

I think Noah is a really lovely name - one of my favourites

Love it. I wanted it for DD had she been a big.

Also love Rowan and Michael.

Love Noah. Only one in the 60 kids in DS' reception class and I know no others.

I love Noah! If I had a 4th son I think this would definitely be his name.

I also have a Rowan...

I actually don’t think Michael is dated - or at least it’s at the start of a curve for New Testament or saints’ names. Peter and Christopher and Nicholas are names that have been mentioned recently. Michael is a name from my generation- born in the ‘60s - whose time has come again.

Michael is definitely on the downward trend

Although ‘dated’ isn’t something that would stop me - one of my favourite boy names is Peter & that’s about the most dated name currently. I’m just a bit of a statistics geek

My 11 year old is a Noah. I still love the name. If I was having him now I would still call him Noah. There is a Noah 6 doors down from us who was in his year at school. His Mum and I talk about your Noah and my Noah. He is now at secondary school and there are no other Noah's in his year of 160 boys. When I come across other Noah's I always feel chuffed that we chose the name. Go for it! X

My eldest (4) is Noah and he is the only one at his school! I know if one other Noah in our area so not overly popular here!!

Mikey was born nearly 20 years ago now (I was a teen mum and now a geriatric mum!) Michael wasn't particularly popular, nor was it a name I loved but I used it on the birth certificate as Mikey felt nicknamey and quite childish. He absolutely hates it when someone refers to him as Michael as he doesn't really associate it with himself, but he does like Mikey.

We must have very similar taste in names hardyboys! When I was having Rowan a couple of years ago I was 100% sure it was the right name, it's my favourite boys name ever.

I think Peter might be due a comeback, although I taught a 16 year old Peter last year and he was the only one I've ever taught.

I really like Christopher, along with Benjamin, Alexander and Joseph but realistically I will want to use a shorter form myself and I'm not keen on any of them.

I know many Noahs. It's very common where I live. There are 4 in our local Playgroup!

I love Flynn and also Eli. Would it be Elliott, and then shortened?

Michael and Rowan are both great names. Noah feels much more 'faddy' to me.

I know one baby Noah. Although I also heard someone say that Ezra is the new Noah, make of that what you will!

That's my main worry with it sparklysunflower.

Daisy Eli would probably just be Eli. The only longer form I like is Elias, but I think I'd just go for Eli on its own.

Faddy? I'd say it's a classic, it's ancient! It's like Samuel, I know of Noah's from all generations.