Names you are bored of hearing...

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Please help me....

Ella
Sophie
Isabel
Molly
Emily
Ava
Eva
Olivia
Evie

It's like a factory conveyor belt tagging Generic Child #5663902...

Names I hear a lot:

• Ottilie
• Lucas
• Theo
• Freddie
• Evie / Ava / Eva / Evelyn
• Archie

I always thought I’d go for really unusual names and my potential future girl’s name is but I’m pregnant with a boy and I think I’m now going for a name that’s ended up top 10 in Scotland, always thought it was relatively unusual 🙈 so I feel bad commenting on this at all 😂 but in the last year the name I keep hearing for boys near me is Ollie and the girl’s name seems to be Sophie/Sophia, every second baby here is being called them

Freya, so dull and boring.
Willow
Issac
Jacob
Charlie

Anything with Mae at the end

This, or anything hyphenated where the full name is used every. Single. Time.

I absolutely love most of these names! Are you sure you didn't all hijack my name lists?!😉

My son's name has been mentioned numerous times on this thread and my daughter's at least twice! But they're just so beautiful that I have no regrets, the reason a name becomes popular is because lots of people agree that it's great- fine by me!🤷🏻‍♀️😁

I have a Theo. Wasn’t even top 20.

The next two years it shot up in popularity 😩

Ella, Ellie, Eva/Ava/Evie, Isla, Lily, Olivia, Grace, Mia, Lila/Lilla.

Jack, Freddie, Leo, Max, Oscar, Olly.

Ava/Ada/Eva/Evie/Edie

Charlie. Fucking thousands of them

Luna

I always thought I’d go for really unusual names and my potential future girl’s name is

I picked unusual names- not in top 100 or at the very bottom.

15 years later and one is now very common, the other not quite so much, but common enough to regularly make name suggestion threads.

Fashions change. 20 years ago using an old mans name like alfie would have been highly unusual, now it’s bloody everywhere.

Forgot May and Rae.

Names of children I know lots of:

Charlie
Albie
Alfie
Freddie
Ben
Jacob
Henry (there are 4 in my son’s class of 15!)
Olivia
Evie

Arthur, Arlo, Jayden/Brayden/Kayden, Luna, Lily-Mae/Ellie-mae. Any names like Hunter, Parker, Chase, etc too.

It makes me laugh when parents pick out a name they're convinced is unique because they spell it differently.

George.
I have one, and I'm fed up of hearing myself say it a billion times an hour. I'm like a walking parody of Joyce Grenfell.

In fairness, he's not one of many at school so he's not George S. I don't mind hearing lots of the same popular name, but it's when there's a rush of a fairly uncommon name suddenly used a lot. Like Ted (seems to be dying down a bit), or Ivy. Nothing wrong with either name, it's just that sudden flurry when they're supposed to be 'safely' out of the top 10.

Oh Nevaeh too. And misspelt names like Niamh becoming Neve, Ailbhe becoming Albie. My friend's daughter is called Keeva because Caoimhe sounded too foreign

Thea and Thalia! Always suggested on here and if as many people use them as suggested there must be thousands.

Theo/Albie/Alfie/Archie/Milo/Arlo etc...

Isabelle/Isabella/Isobel

Noah
Archie
Alfie

Olivia
Ava/Eva
Amelia

Oh wow. It’s possible to not want your child to be Amelia something as one of several in their class, but also to not want to call your child Moon Unit. I don’t think OP has asked a patronising question at all, the fact that they’re asking this probably means they defs don’t want something completely off the wall and to outdo people for wackiness, they just want to avoid complete ubiquity.

Mia.
Layla.
George.
Harry.
Archie.

@Edenember

Oh wow. It’s possible to not want your child to be Amelia something as one of several in their class, but also to not want to call your child Moon Unit. I don’t think OP has asked a patronising question at all, the fact that they’re asking this probably means they defs don’t want something completely off the wall and to outdo people for wackiness, they just want to avoid complete ubiquity.

Of course it is But it's also possible to create a post that doesn't use the words boring, common etc about names that may hold real significance to someone for many reasons.

It comes across as mean & smug.

There are at least as many 'mean' posts about unusual names!

Ava
Mia
Ella
Isla
Lila

Kaiden
Jayden
Max

Not sick of but hear alllll the time:

Teddy/Ted/Theo
Amelia/Amelie/Emily
Jack
Oliver/Ollie

Arthur
Harry
Oliver
Archie
Freya
Ella
Olivia

All of the above
This year I've added willow to the list. I've know 5 babies born in 2020, 2 are boys but 2 of the girls are called willow.
I think willow is the new Olivia

Willow is terrible.