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

[WomenHour]

Mine is fairly common.

When she was born - uncommon

Now - far too common

What a difference 24 years makes.

DS not even in top 100
DD name usually around 60 in name chart- still pretty uncommon judging by how many other people/girls I've met called her name

DDs name is not in the top100. DSs name is in the 50s on the chart

Dd1 uncommon, outside the top 100 but getting closer to it. It’s a name that’s mentioned lots on here.
Dd2 is very uncommon, it’s only just in the top 1000 according to the 2019 ONS data.

DS both have straight forward names that no one can mispronounce or misspell. DH has an unusual name and has considered it a pain and embarrassment all his life. I don’t think it’s that bad tbh but then I haven’t lived with it day in, day out. He was insistent on no unusual names or weird spelling.

I’m right there with your DH @Baggagerack

Having been saddled with an uncommon name I absolutely agree with @baggagerack. Both our dc has classic names with no alternative spellings. Interestingly both have become increasingly popular in the last 20 years.

My dd has a common name, or at least it should be common as it's a top 10 name. However, we've never personally met another child with the same name as her in the past 7 years, and there is only 1 other child in her school of 400+ kids with the same name as her.

My ds has a very uncommon name yet we have met another child with the same name as him 🤷🏻‍♀️

DD's name is common (we named her after my Grandma).
DS1 and DS2's names are not particularly common but not really unusual either.

According to the ONS for her birth year in England & Wales she is one of 14 with her "unusual" spelling and there were 68 with standard spelling.

DS8 - in the top 5, but never had another in his class

DD7 - in the top teens

DS2 - in the top 230's

All very uncommon but one has climbed slightly after someone in the public eye copied.

DS 1 name was in top 100 for several years, in the last century, though as someone said upthread, I've never met another child who has the same given name.
DS 2 name and spelling has only been in top 100 twice since 1904. Alternative spelling top 100 for a few more years, but never top 50. Strangely, I have met several people with his name, usually with the other spelling. Dgs never top 100 with any spelling. I've only ever met one person with his name outside of our family.

Really interested to know what kind of uncommon name could be a pain and embarrassment all someone's life. Just seems quite extreme. Is the name particularly embarrassing or ridiculous?
I only say that as I have a pretty normal name but I have to spell it every time. If someone spells it incorrectly I couldn't care less. It's only important on official documents which is quite rare anyway.
I have one DS with a fairly common name (50ish) and one with an uncommon name (250ish) I wish the common one hadn't risen so much in the charts tbh.

Both DS's have traditional names-one hoovers around top 10 and the other slightly less common but still in the 100.

DD name traditional but more unusual and is not in the top 100.

Both common. One the most popular name for years, which I didn't know about Because I never looked it up because we just went with DH's dad's name. When I did find out I was disappointed.

the second one is in the top 50, but much less so and we've only met two others of his name so far.

@Adelais wondering if your DD and mine have the same name-often mentioned on here and growing in popularity...
what does it begin with?

Uncommon. Never met another

One is really uncommon. We looked it up once on the ONS and joked how the name was in the top 3000 since she was born, just. I didn't know that when we named her, it seemed so similar to another very popular name, but get comments on it regularly.

One is pretty uncommon, top 500, but everyone has heard of it & more commonly shows up on names people hate for being very American.

The other two are common, top 150 and were far more popular when they were born. Both have dropped in popularity, but we've met very few other people in real life with their names (rather than historical figures or people on TV).

Not overly common but certainly not unheard of. Just below the middle of the top 100 range.

@mumsiedarlingrevolta It begins with a C!

Both common. And common in several european countries as at that time we were living between 2 and thinking of moving to a third. We wanted something pronounceable, easily spellable and familiar.

One of each

DC1 quite common in our area, wasn’t even in the top 50 when we chose it.
DC2 very uncommon.

Common in his homeland, uncommon here.