Baby girls you know??

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Hello all 🙂 I’m expecting a girl imminently and am having a wobble over her name. I really love a very common girl’s name (top 10) but I don’t actually know any babies or toddlers with it. I’m just wondering if people could name the baby and toddler girls that you know or that are in your children’s nurseries? I feel like all the babies I know are Isla/Ava/Mya type- names, but I’m yet to hear the one I want to use.

Very torn as I’ve always loved the name, but also have never wanted a common name for my child (I was one of 3 Sophies in my tutor group and it was quite confusing/annoying!!)

Thanks so much for any help x

Both my kids have top 10 names, and neither has ever had another with the same name in nursery / school class / Brownies / Cubs etc. There are two boys with the same name as my son in the school, but different years, and one with the same name as my daughter, again in a different year.

Quite a few people have said "that's my cousin's child's name" or "that's my next-door neighbours' grandchild's name" so if I made a list of all the children we have heard of with the same name, it would be a long list. But we have never met most of these other children and probably never will.

Maggie
Emma
Delilah

Oh yeah, Lily is popular, no getting away from it. Gorgeous though!

Lily is really popular, I work with kids and we see loads of them, sorry! We also have a baby Lily in the family.

It’s a pretty name but I get bored of it being paired with Rose/May/Grace which are the filler middle names for girls currently. So it would be less common to pair Lily with something else for a change.

Lily is a classic so it doesn't matter how popular it is. It's so much more solid than the Luna, Lyra, Lila type names that are everywhere at the moment.

@SummerLew

Lily is a classic so it doesn't matter how popular it is. It's so much more solid than the Luna, Lyra, Lila type names that are everywhere at the moment.

Well, it does matter if you specifically don't want a popular name.

I know plenty Lily's but they are all a bit older. I work in the lower end of a school and know most of the dc in the nursery too so 290 odd dc and there was one Lily but she has left so we have none.

I don’t know any baby or toddlers called Lily, I know lots who are between 9-13 though!

I work jn a school and we currently only have 2 Lily's in Year 8. None in Nursery to Year 7.

Sophie
Meredith
Lola
Margeaux
Imogen X 2
Emily
Eva

There is a 7 month old Lilly in our baby class, along with Sophie, Isla, Callie, Cara, Freya, Elsie.
My son has a name outside of the top 30 and there is another boy with the same name in the class.

I have an Eden, we love it and not terribly common 😊

I know 3 baby Lily’s. It’s popular because it’s a lovely name even if not my cup of tea.

Names of girls at nursery: Violet-Rose, Alisa, Aurora, Jasmine, Daisy, Caroline, Iris, Isabella, Margot, Lucy, Isla, Ava, Amelia, Emilia, Rose, Darcy

Lily is so beautiful - one of my favourites
I know of one locally and one via a friend of a friend. Not many at all.

If you look at the graph of the official statistics of the name Lily, it's been falling in numbers for years- consistently since it's peak in 2011 in fact - the numbers speak for themselves look at the graph of official ONS figures. You might pick a name further down the charts only for it to overtake Lily in a couple of years. Stick with Lily

names.darkgreener.com/#lily

The only girls I know around that age are Erica (3) and Bella (7 months, not short for anything - just Bella).

Also, re: your great grandmother Lily, Lily is my middle name and the only one I know was my grandmother's sister! It's a classic for a reason. I'd say use it.

There was a phase a while ago where there were a lot of hyphenated names with Lily; Lily-May, Lily-Rose etc. So it may be more popular than it looks iyswim if you count all the hyphenated ones too.

I actually don't think I know any baby Lilys though! The only Lily I actually know well is 37.

I wouldn't worry about popularity. I chose a name for my DD which wasn't even in the top 100 and we have still ended up knowing 3 more babies with the same name born within a month of each other!! 🙄🙈 I don't regret it as I also chose her name for sentimental reasons. Lily is a beautiful name. Good luck with your baby girl!

I know a 1 year old Lily. Others from our nct group are Sophie, Ava, Ella, Beatrice, Sienna.

I meet a very large number of babies due to my work. I've not come across a Lily for several years. Where I am the most popular girls' names in the last couple of years have been Penelope, Margot and Ava/Eva/Evelyn (which have been popular for a long time now).

Lola
Ava
Sienna x2
Mila
Ivy
Alannah
Olivia
Amelia

Popularity varies a lot in different areas. If you look on the ONS website you can see names registered last year by area, it's fascinating.

To answer your question, I've got two girls under six and I'm racking my brains but I don't think we've come across a single Lily in any baby group, nursery or school class!

Names I hear more regularly are:

Aria
Margot
Florence
Evie
Grace
Sienna
Emily
Annabel
Sophie/Sophia

But I'm not talking loads of girls with those names, maybe only 2-3. I think the days of a single school class with 4 Sarah's, 3 Katie's, 2 Emma's etc are gone now.

There is a Lily in the toddler group I help run 😊

Other names I can think of from preschool and toddler groups etc

Amelia
Willow
Lyra
Robyn
Eliza
Betsy
Connie
Tessa
Lizzie
Matilda

I know 2 Lilies both born in the last 6 weeks…..one Lily one Lilly.

I don't know any Lilys, but there are lots of Florences in dd's school. Lily seemed popular in young girls around 10 years ago when I worked in family law.