Please rate my girls shortlist

[cheshiremama90]

Hello :-) i'm trying to decide on the perfect name for my baby girl. I already have a little boy called Noah. I love his name but he is one of 3 in his class and i'd like to avoid her being one of several. Problem is i do like popular names so its a tough one! Which combo do you think works best?
Noah and...
Sophia
Mia
Alice
Grace
Isabella
Olivia

Thank you x

I like Mia and Alice best. I don't know where they fall on the popularity list.

If you want to avoid common names they are 7th, 5th, 8th, 25th, 6th and 1st respectively. All are very popular names where she is likely to share a class, club or team with at least one other. My preference is Alice. It's the least popular too.

They're all popular names, so there's every chance they will be one of several in their class or social group.

You’ve chosen lovely but very popular names! I’d choose Alice for both relative non-popularity and as my fave.

Sorry, popularity (In England and Wales) is:
Sophia - 7th
Mia - 5th
Alice - 25th
Grace - 8th
Isabella - 6th
Olivia - 1st

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I like Isabella and Olivia best from that list, but they are all popular.

They are all really popular though. If you like them then go for one but if you don't want a popular name choose something else.

Sophia
Olivia
Isabella
They are all lovely names

Can I put Sarah on the list?

But failing that Grace or Olivia.

Sophia - very popular, but so is Noah
Mia - very popular, not keen
Alice - would pick
Grace - ok
Isabella - nice but too long
Olivia - overused

The only one I don't like is Mia

Sophia!

I would say avoid all of them if you don’t want another one to be in her class.

I find Grace really dull as it’s used as a middle/hyphenated name for almost every girl at the minute. And I really don’t like Gracie as it’s too twee.

Isabella is nice but I don’t like Bella. Really dislike Mia.

Olivia is nice but immensely popular.

Alice and Sophia are lovely, not keen on the others. Agree that Gracie is a horrible nn for Grace

They’re all nice names but very popular and have been for twenty years.

I like Alice the best

Alice. Don't like the sound of Noah and Mia....

You can look on ONS to see which of the names are least popular in your particular area, as it may well not be the same as the national statistics.

But I'd say avoid Olivia (no 1 name so likely to be popular everywhere), Grace (thousands of girls with it as a middle name too, sometimes hyphenated so feels even more commonplace than it is) and Sophia (as Sophie and Sofia are also high in the tables so again feels more popular than it is). Equally Isabella could well have an Isabelle in her class.

My fave of your other choices is Alice, but Mia works well with Noah too.

What about Leah? Has the Mia vibe but less popular

Alice

If you really DON'T want her to be one of two or more in her class, you probably need to avoid all of them, OP. They are all popular names.

If you really do want one of the above, I would go for Alice. It's less common than the others, and is a fairly timeless name. I know Alices of all ages.

I really like Mia and Sophia not fussed on others

As posters have said these are all top 10 most popular names.

Noah and Delilah
Noah and Cosima
Noah and Talitha
Noah and Matilda
Noah and Beatrice
Noah and Honor