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

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Mine is fairly common.

Both very uncommon - although some classic names are beautiful I wanted something really different almost so that the surname isn’t needed

Deliberately top 50 but not top 10

Both are well used, 1 is more common in the other.

Two fairly classic names.. top 100 but not top 20 as a guess. One very uncommon, as in he was the only one born in Scotland with that name that year! (Although there are much more popular variants of it out there.)

Both fairly uncommon I think. I can think of one two other children who share each of their names- none of which they're likely to cross paths with.

DS1 - pretty uncommon. We have never met another one and in the ONS list for the year of his birth there were around 150 with that name.

DS2 - so rare that his name didn’t feature in the ONS list at all.

19 babies with his name in England in 2018 (only year I can find searchy thing for). None in Scotland or Ireland.

Yet somehow 20 babies with my guilty pleasure name, which is Zephyr So I somehow managed to give him a more out-there name than Zephyr, it seems!

I dont know any other children with my kids names.

They arent made up or trendy, just old Celtic names. Some might think my dd name is chavy but I have never met anyone with that name and I dint know any one ever with any of my kids names. Except some ageing actors

My DS's name is very common, if you google first name and surname there are thousands of men of South Indian origin with the same name. His first name is also pretty popular for UK kids, it's one of those grandad names that has made a comeback.

DD's name is fairly unusual, she has only ever once met someone with the same name. If you google her first name and surname there's only one other person that comes up, an American of Indian origin.

DD1 - very uncommon. No one share her name in school or college and even at Uni (RG London so large) there was only one other with a different spelling.

DD2 - uncommon when named 18 years ago but now becoming more popular. Again no one named the same at school and only 1 other at college.

Uncommon, common as muck, somewhere in between.

DD1 was outside top 100, DS in top 3, DD2 top 50 ( for the years they were born)

I've just looked DS1's name up. It's the 4946th most popular name in the UK. I'm going with uncommon!

Common, which was the plan. Being the son of a senior teacher (which they’re very likely to be) is quite tough enough without having an unusual name.

Ooh I don’t know. They’re all in the top 100 (I think) but I’ve only met a few with the same name and never one with DS2’s name. DS4 to be’s name is unusual I’d say

My 2 are both top 100 but around the 80ish mark rather than top 10. DD1s I know 3 of them, DD2 I don't know any personally but think its becoming more popular. They're named after my grandmothers though so I wouldn't give a hoot if everyone in England decided to use them - theyre special to me

Very uncommon. Have never met another one, and yet it is a perfectly normal name! I dont know why it isnt used more, but I love that it isnt!

Pretty uncommon.

Common in that everyone knows the name; uncommon in that she was the only child in nursery with that name, the only infant, the only junior, the only brownie, the only guide. Yet everyone knows the name, but no-one seems to be using it. Fine by me.

Around #40 in the charts now, but was top 10 about 20 years ago.

1 fairly common, top 100. 1 never heard another child called it

DC1 and DC2 are outside of the top 100. Can't find an exact number. DC3 has a variation of a top 20 name.

Uncommon. Not as unusual now though as when I used it. When he was a child he was the only one at school with his name. Now there would be several.

Common. It's very usual that we'll go somewhere and another child will also have that same name.

Ds1 Uncommon- outside of top 200
Ds2 Uncommon- outside of top 2000
DS3 Uncommon - can't find it even listed

There were three girls (total) given her name in the year she was born; either side of that it ranges from none to four, although there was a bit of a spike ten years ago (nine girls, I think) for reasons I can't fathom (no books or tv to the best of my knowledge).
No one else in the UK has ever been given my name, as far as I can tell, although Google shows two or three of us worldwide over the past 30-40 years.