What’s popular for babies?

[mamablondie]

IRL what’s popular in baby groups etc? Am currently TTC dc2, not so interested in older kids names but more babies.

I find the charts quite misleading, my daughters name is in the 20s/30s and I’ve encountered a few. More than the actual top 10names. Just would be helpful to know :)

Arthur, Ava, Amelia, Lily, Isabella, Poppy, Theodore, Isla, Ada. Basically any girls name beginning with A!

Arthur is a strong contender for us!

My dcs are older but babies born recently that I know are:
Corey
Myles
Adelaide
Flo
Jaxon
Olly
Isabella

Ava, Isla, Poppy, Cameron, Nathaniel, Mia, Louis

I think there’s a big variation in names, depending on where you live, your social circle, etc. I know babies called things like Daphne, Barbara, Sybil, Hamish, Peter, Vincent.

Noah, Oliver, Teddy, Harrison, Isabella, Olivia, Annabell, Isla, Evie, Eva.. There's so many in DC's Pre-school!

Boys in my baby groups are:
Ezra
Reuben
Noah
Harvey
Luca

Girls are quite few and far between! It’s boy central in my group!
The few girls I know are:
Emma
Maria
Beth

Lots of names mentioned above are the names that were used over 20 years ago - the names of my DC friends - some of whom are having their own children now. They would see them as dated now for a baby. They are 20-something names.

George, Charlie, Jenson, Jackson

Sienna, Evie, Ava, Isabelle/a, Alba, Summer

Why, just why, would anyone call a human being Jaxon??? Jaxon the Klaxon? WTAF?

Lots of Evies, Islas, Teddies, Harrisons.

Met a Merlin the other day which I had never heard, and liked it!

I don’t know a lot of babies but the babies I know born this year are called; Iris, Jemima, Evelyn, Isabelle, Alexander and Erik.

There’s been 2 very recent threads on this exact topic @mamablondieb

One thread for girls and one for boys so maybe look there

Are you trying to avoid popular names @mamablondie - I’m trying to understand your purpose behind the thread.
I’ve met more Matildas than Olivia’s locally to me but it doesn’t mean that olivia isn’t still the number 1 name

The Office National Statistics have produced lists of name data split into different regions of the UK so you could check there

I know lots of Harlows, Noah's, Amelia's and Eva's/Evie's/ Edies

I see Isla is very popular on Mumsnet, but I don't know a single one. It's my girls name should I fall pregnant with one

In my baby group

Ava
Sophie
Sofia
Laura
Aurora
Emma
Heidi

Frank
Kaiden

Why, just why, would anyone call a human being Jaxon??? Jaxon the Klaxon? WTAF?

I totally agree with this . It’s unfortunately quite popular. I thought Jackson was bad enough but the x takes the piss.

Jayden is still doing the rounds too and Noah, think Logan is still popular as well.

Jackson would be bad enough, but Jaxon is on a different planet of awfulness.

It's even worse than Jayden. It says it all, when Logan starts to sound verging on reasonable.

A names (Arthur, Arlo, Amelie, Amelia, Ava)
E names (Emily, Eva, Evie)
I names (Isla, Isabelle, Imogen, Isabella)
O names (Olivia, Olive, Olivia, Oscar)

But not U names!

Also names ending in vowels, especially ‘ie/y’ and ‘a’

So Emily/Amelie/Amelia end up sounding used a lot because they’re similar.

Ha my colleague just named his baby Jaxon. American though, so perhaps that goes some way to explain it?! I can’t say I have anything positive to say about it.

Most of the british babies I know are called Arthur, Albert, Edward/Theodore/Teddy, Amelie/Amelia/Mia/Mila, or Eva/Eve/Evie/Ava.

@PlantPotting so in 2018 with DD1 her name was declining in popularity so I didn’t expect to encounter that many. There was one other at every BF group/baby sensory etc and she’s one of two at her nursery. I love her name and don’t regret it but we deliberately avoided the UK top 10 for that reason.

The irony being that I’ve not encountered too many Sophias, Avas etc. So it’s just helpful to know what’s actually around x

@PlantPotting oh and also our surname is very common (dare I say boring?)

Eliza
Vivienne
Teddy
Marnie
Freya
Kit
Ellis
Sophie

Ok understood @mamablondie

I’m not sure these responses will help you all that much then as we are all based in different regions of the country try. If you go to office national statistics and look at the top 100 for your own region maybe you will find the name you picked is higher up the charts in your part of the uk than the uk as a whole and that’ll help explain why you’ve come across so many more than you were expecting

I also find the same thing by the way. I live near 2 little boys called Fox (which is waaaay outside the top 100) but haven’t met an Oliver yet