Without naming your child , is your child's name common or uncommon?

[WomenHour]

Mine is fairly common.

I have one of each (not really by design)

both classical names that don't seem to date, so never top of the list but always in top 20

Do you mean uncommon as is not in the top 100?
If so, dds name is uncommon.

Both uncommon but one much more uncommon than the other.

StrumpersPlunkett

I’d say top 20 is definitely common.

I thought it was uncommon. Until she went to school

My dc's name was used 30 times last year.

Is that uncommon?

One is a common name, though not a Top 20 name. One is not common. Neither were by design, it just happened to be the case.

Both of my dds have names that are always referred to as being common every time they are mentioned on name threads. I've not met another child with either name in the 15 years since my eldest dd was born and I work in a nursery, if they were that common I would be meeting them 😂 must be regional I think.

First one was uncommon when I named her in 1986. Now that name is everywhere.

Second one was uncommon and old fashionws when born in 1991 and is still uncommon.

We need to define 'common'. Used more than 50 times last year?

Uncommon - there were about 90 babies with his name born last year, and another 90 or so with an alternative spelling of it.

That said, I've seen it suggested loads on here over the last few weeks, so it might be about to explode in popularity

DD1 - common
DD2 - very uncommon
DD3 - quite uncommon maybe just top 100
DS - common

DD - very uncommon. It’s an old lady name but not of the Mabel, Elsie, Kitty ilk.

DS - uncommon, but wouldn’t have been in 1970

Dd: around 150 per year in E/wales. DS, around 15 per year. I'd say common is anything in the top 100, but uncommon doesn't mean you wont share a class group with another, and common doesnt mean you will IYSWIM.

As it happens we know 2 of the girls named the same as my DD in the same year as her. And we also know one of the boys with DS'S name, from same birth year. And one born a couple of years prior. Total coincidence.

Really common, but not commonly used for young children at the moment.

DS’s name is a classic and reasonable popular, always in the top 20-30

DD’s Name isn’t in the top 100. It’s been a more popular name in the past (It’s my mum’s name too) but you don’t meet many children with her name

I'd say both mine have classic, often used names.

Common, in the sense that lots of people have the name and always have. I chose it for that reason (& like it of course), wanted something classic so there would never be any mick taking. My offspring thinks it's a 'cool' name and thinks all kids should be called that; naturally has always had many friends called the same :-).

One very, one not at all!

Teen DD‘s name was probably top 30, now maybe top 100 at a push for new babies.

Primary school DS was probably too 50 of the year he was born, it’s become top 10 popular now.

1 extremely common, 4 off-the-charts uncommon.

Neither of mine in the top 100.

My own name very uncommon, have only met 2 others in my life -usually spelt differently - and only one famous person (from TV) has it spelt the same way.

DD1's name - fairly common but no others in her year in primary or secondary.

DD2's name (chosen by DD1) - very common. Six alone in her year in primary, 4 in her class.

At least DD1 and 2 don't get sniggered at for their name in secondary, as I did as it was unusual, and people don't ask them how to spell it and still get it wrong!

DS1: Maybe top50
DS2: SUPER common. We lived abroad when he was born and had no idea his name was the trendiest in our language.