Calling all teachers/child minders ect

[Pops55]

Which girls and boys names should I avoid due to being too popular?
First time mam so not around children that often.

I once taught a class with 7 Megans / Meghans. I don't think there were any others in the rest of the Primary school. That group will be able 20 now!

I think it’s quite regional.
SW here and I would say
Florence
Arthur
Teddy
Theo
Logan
Boys names ending in IE
Olivia
Amelia/Emilia

Willow
Girls names starting with a vowel
Darcy/Darcey/Darcie

Oh and Mia

Thankyou. We seem to prefer classic names that are easy to pronounce/spell and won't date badly, so far these names are all in the top 100 so I guess there will be a chance of meeting/going to school with others with the same name, however I do agree its more important to pick a name we love.

I agree, it varies lots by region. Our London school has Layla, Freya, Iris, Erin, Niamh, Maya, Max, Leo and Arthur strongly represented. I've not come across one Oliver, Harry, Charlie or Emily. The odd Olivia or Isabelle, but both are more rare than Olive and Eliza. There are more babies called Otis in the area than you would expect.

For me, Isla is the most popular girls name in my setting. Followed by Amelia, Olivia, Isabella (or other combinations). Imogen is also very popular

Boys are Oliver, Alfie, Freddie, Finley.

It definitely depends on the area too, I’ve never looked after an Evie, Willow, Theo or Arlo which seem to be mentioned as too popular on here. Where as in my current setting we have 4 Islas in the toddler room and 3 in the baby room (it’s a big nursery)

Just pick a name you love. DS is in a class of 27 and there are no repetitions even though there are children with very popular names like Theo, Ava, Sophie, Grace, Jack, Evie. There seems to be more diversity now than my class in the early 90s where we had 4 Lauras, 3 Emmas and 3 Sarahs!

Just pick the name you like?
I've had two dc, I could never get worked up about this.
I'm a teacher as well!!

There's loads of names outside the top 100 that fit your criteria @Pops55

Laurence
Louisa
Peter
Lucy (inside top 100 but falling)
Margaret
Matthew
Audrey
Seth
Nathan
Miles
Clementine

Loads more obviously. Just a few examples

Around here toddler names I hear repeated a lot are Noah, Alfie, Finn, Theo, Arlo, Reggie, Arthur, Jack, Oliver, Freya, Evie, Isla, Ava, Mia, Florence

But I think just go for a name you like. As someone else said there’s so much more diversity with names now it won’t be like when we were at school! I think now the most popular boys name (Oliver) had around 5000 named it in the year where as 20 years ago it was more like 10,000 (Jack). So even the most popular name has half the repeats it used to have!

One year group had 5 Olivers out of 60 kids at my school.
Harry is popular and Charlie. Louis, Leo, Max.

For girls I know tons of Amys, flower names are really done to death too.
Olivias I know about 3 thousand of.

Theres loads of Logans and Zak,Zac,Zack where i am.
Also Leon seems quite popular.

Just pick the name you like. Otherwise it will annoy you.

In my school we are overrun with Emily, Charlotte, Sophie, Sophia, Genevieve, Ella, Isabelle, Olivia, Lily, Amelia, Freya, Chloe etc names...all the usual ones really.

@SionnachRua Genevieve isn’t exactly popular is it? ^

@Thefaceofboe weirdly enough we have a rake of them - not quite one in every class but not far off that at all! Some of the classes have more than one...I sometimes wonder if it annoys any of the parents.

Charlie
Alfie
Theodore/Teddy/Theo

Olivia
Evie
Sophie/Sophia

Seriously, there are so many Olivias about at the moment, I’m sick of them 😉😆

@SionnachRua how funny I don’t know 1 Genevieve and always thought it was a really unusual name (it’s actually on my list that’s why I asked). Where abouts are you?

Amelia
Emmy
Ella
Ana Annie
Ava
Evie
Ellie
Ella
Etc
All that vowelly stuff
Sophie
Matilda
Lily
Ivy
Florence
Flora
Beatrice
Esme
Etc
Old lady stuff

Archie
Alfie
Fin Finn
Noah
Josh
Jacob
Dylan
Kian
James
Connor
Etc

[quote Thefaceofboe]@SionnachRua how funny I don’t know 1 Genevieve and always thought it was a really unusual name (it’s actually on my list that’s why I asked). Where abouts are you?[/quote]
Dublin! We may be an oddity of a school though 🙃

Isabella
Isabel
Bella
Ella
Eva
Evelyn
Olivia
Isla
Isla
Isla
Isla
Isla

My oldest is 4 now, but I joined a baby music class, there were 10 babies, two called Heidi. A friend from school had a baby and also called it Heidi that same year. Never met any before or since.

In my son's class two Ellie's, two Sophias, but I think that isn't as popular now. No duplicates on the boys.

Trying to think of any duplicates within my friends. Couple of Islas, couple of Harry's. I know children with many of the names mentioned, but not more than one. What names do you like @Pops55 ?

@SionnachRua im in Dublin as well.i have never heard a child never mind multiples called Genevieve.

@BorderlineHappy you should see my school then - we have loads! I'd never met a Genevieve before I started working here.