Without saying your first name ,is your name common/uncommon?

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Common as in well used

I would say fairly common

mines was very uncommon with humans but popular with poodle and labrador owners, have heard a couple of under 10s called it recently

Uncommon, it's an old fashioned Welsh name

Really common but now it's kinda aging me...no one under 30 is called it :(

Uncommon went through school, university and work without meeting another. Bizarrely, there seems to be a lot of mutual friends with my name on SM of late. They all appear to be younger than me but I don't recall anyone amongst my siblings peer groups.

Very uncommon. When I was younger, it made me very uncomfortable, now I can see advantage in not needing to explain who I am over the phone to some old friend- I only need to say my name and they remember me!

Quite common amongst women of an uncertain age. It has connotations of a Scottish housekeeper and is deeply unglamorous. No one names babies with my name anymore.

Very uncommon but seems to be a fairly common surname in USA.

Very unusual when I was growing up in 70s and 80s; I only knew of one other, who was named after me (). Less unusual in last 25 years. Often mentioned on mn baby name boards. Usually favourably. 🙃

Mine can be dated to 2-3 years late 50s / early 60s. Nothing before other than a character in a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. Saw on a thread a few months back, it might be making a comeback - nearly fell off my chair. Had 3 girls of same name in primary (same initials as well) and 5 in secondary. After that not so many - thank God.

Don't like it. Neither does DP as he calls me by my surname, which is now a first name as well. Interestingly when people get my name wrong, I'm frequently called Dawn.......

I've met four in my lifetime.

Definitely not a name that people would say "Oh, that's an unusual name!" but you don't meet many.

Uncommon

Hated my name as a child/teen but OK with it now I'm an old gimmer

Uncommon. One or two youngsters have now got it, but still rare.

Common for my age - I was one of 4 in my high school year.

Very 60s/early 70s (I was born in 1970).

It's not common in the UK.
However, there's an infamous person has my name and people all over the world seem to know it.
When I introduce myself to people, they always ask, "Oh, like the woman who...?"
Yeah, she's sort of ruined it for a lot of us.

Very uncommon. I've only ever met two people with the same name as me in 40+ years. I love it now but people always spell it/pronounce it wrong.

Common-ish, more familiar. It's most peoples middle name if they were born in the 80's !!

Usually one other at various places I've worked depending on company size. I've mainly worked in big offices. It just depends on the age you work with.

I don't bump into loads of me though.

Extremely uncommon, often misheard/misspelt or people’s brains automatically replace it with similar-sounding common names. I’ve only met one other person with it, and it was a little girl who spotted my name tag at work. Didn’t know who was more excited, her or I!

As a kid was envious of the others finding their bookmark/keychain in the gift shop.

Mine is common, consistently in the top 100 in the past 20 years or so, was pretty close to the top of the list when I was born in the 80s.

Uncommon in the country I was born/grew up/currently live. Apparently very common in the country the name originated from.

Uncommon for my age group, then quite common now definitely uncommon..
and according to mn, unpopular! I don't mind it 🤷‍♀️

Not commonly used but a well known name. There are common versions and shortenings of it but I have only met one other irl that I can think of. Two very famous American Celebrities share my name though.

Despite it being a well known name, it's on my Facebook and written clearly on Christmas and birthday cards etc my neighbour's will not fucking get it right!

Imagine it is Maria. They call me Marie. It's not Marie. It has never been Marie. They know us very well. I have corrected them. My husband says my name all the time. They just... won't say it!

My 8 year old son has caught on and called me a further shortening of my name (let's say, 'Mar') last week in front of them. I said, "What did you just call me? It's MARI-A! MA-REE-AH! And mum to you, young man!"

I realised a little later he was trying to get me to correct him in front of the neighbours. Clever wee lad.

Didn't work though. It's bloody ignorant!

I hate my name, it's popularity was at its height about 10 years before I was born. I know a few my age but most are much older, I think it ages me. I always think of this when someone in a name thread says, "popular about 10 years ago but not any more, use it!" It makes me cringe.

@cctvrec my neighbour shortens my name which I bloody hate. My name is commonly shortened in the US but rarely is here, so I'm not sure where she gets it from. My dh and dc thinks it's hilarious and will follow me out of the house just to hear her using it.

Very uncommon. Not even in top 1,000 girls' names.

Very uncommon - I’ve never met another one, or anyone who knows another one.

Some years it’s not in the baby name charts at all.

It’s is a real name though...