John?

[fairybeagle]

I like the name a lot and I don't think it's common for young children anymore. Opinions please?

DS's best friend at preschool is John.

There are a couple of kids called John and Jonathan at our school.

Brilliant name. Just don't double barrel it with Thomas.

Be warned, it's on the way back! I know two babies called John.

It's going to be part of the next wave of comeback names replacing (at a guess) the Stanley and Wilfred type names.

Next up will be John, Peter, Robert.

It's never going to be two a penny like Oliver though so I'd go for it. It's nice.

It's my DSs middle name because it's a family name and I do love it.

I have a friend with a DS called John, they felt it was too grown up for a baby so they call him Johnny.

So, so boring

I think it’s classy and understated.

@FizzyGreenWater look at the ONS stats! It’s definitely not on its way back. It’s on its way out! A shame because it’s nice...

Graph based on ONS data below:

names.darkgreener.com/#john

names.darkgreener.com/#jonathan

Oh really? Well you learn something new every day. Odd because I was only thinking a day or two before reading this thread that I'd noticed John popping up as a name choice! There you go OP looks as if it's more likely to stay a rare one.

it won't go away completely. Like Sarah and other names, it was so popular that it appeared dated.
The modern world has opened the range of names we hear about. Before tv, internet and so on we just wouldn't have known of a lot of the nmaes.