What names are popular in your child's class right now?

[triplechocbrownie]

I'm expecting a baby girl and am interested to know what names are coming up in your child's nursery or class (primary school) a lot at the moment?

I work in a school and multiple names in eyfs are:

Florence
Isabella
Isla
Amelia
Harper

Leo (so many, 4 in one class last year)
Teddy
Theo
Jacob

Is this central London?'

EYFS names…willow, Lily, Amelia, Callie, Florence, Clara, Emma, iris, Bryony, jemima, Perri, orla, Gracie, Nora, Matilda, frankie, Elsie.

No. The poster clarified upthread that this is in midwestern USA.

Girls-Olivia, Grace, Willow, Isla,Lila, Elodie, Faith,Amelia,Cara, Hannah, Ivy, Lily.

Boys-Freddie, Joel, George,William,James,Riley,Harry, Charlie,Archie,Alfie

Year3/1
girls: half the girl’s in DDs class have names that both start and end in A eg the aforementioned Amelia, Amaya, Aria, Anya, Ada, Ava etc
boys: there are Freddies everywhere. By far the most popular name at school. Also Oscar, Theo, Charlie, Toby, Dylan

Girls
Multiples of Rose/Rosie/Rosalie/Rosemary
Poppy
Elizabeth - although all use different short versions
Eve/Evie/Aoife/Ava
Imogen
Harriet
Frances/Francesca/Frankie

Boys
Joseph
Charlie
Alfie
Oliver
Harry/Henry

Freya, Ava, Eva, Evie, Isla, Emily, Amaya and Isabel/Isabelle/Isabella are the most popular for girls in ours.

Theo, Harry, Henry, Freddie, William for boys.

I find there are really noticeable patterns. The most common girls’ pattern is ‘ay’ or ‘i’ + v: Eva, Ivy, Ava, Evie, Maeve, Evelyn - plus Aoife and Ewa as honourable mentions.

Boys:
Lots of Theo’s, Felixes and Caspars.

Girls:
Ada/Ava/Isla/Evie etc
Layla/Lila/Leela etc
Couple of Phoebes, Sofias and Olives in the year as well.

We seem to have escaped the -Mae names, which I am pretty relieved about. And the grandad names (Arthur, Archibald, Cedric, Cuthbert, Edgar, etc).

Emily
Isabella
Oscar
Theo
Ivy
Jack

Isla
Edie
Elsie
Erin
Ava

Freddie (lots)
Frank
Arthur
Max

And of course all the Mia, Miya, Mila, Myla, Maya, Maia homophones...

In 8s and unders, multiples of..

Isla
Mila
Mia
Lucy
Niamh
Zoe
Ellie
Ella
Molly
Rosie
Millie
Sienna
Ava
Sarah
Chloe
Grace
Sofia
Holly

Can I ask the name of your DD? Or would that be outing?

Rémi
Evie x4
Darcey/Darcie
Ivy
Matilda
Florence x5
Eva
Ava x3

DS is two, we know several:

Freya/Lily/Florence

A lot in the old lady theme of Cora/Sadie/Mabel/Olive/Connie/Ada

Maeve seems to be becoming quite popular.

There are 3 Audrey's in my sons year (year2). And a few Indi's - Boys and girls.

Harry & Leo very popular 4-6yo
Ava/Evie/Eva all popular and easy mix up same with
Maya/Mia
Look at published list even those near top number of babies given that name is quite low.
2 withsame name in a class of 30 is still ok

My gd Ava moved from canada...unusual name but very popular in roi..ny gs Max is also popular

I've come across quite a few of these names too. Pretty though! Whereabouts in the country are you?

@triplechocbrownie Probably quite outing given that I’ve listed some of her classmates’ names and it’s a lot more unusual than any of theirs. I’ve mentioned it on other name threads though - fits with the ‘short name ending in a’ trend but lots more consonants/harsher sounding/European influence - very marmite! 🙂

Isla
Maya/Maia
Tabitha/Tabby
Rosie various full names same nickname
Isobel various spellings
Lula various full names same nickname

In my children's classes there aren't that many repetitions. There might be more than one Emma in a year group. Also quite a few Nathaniels which surprised me. I think there were three in my 5yo's EYFS class.

I used to work in a primary and there were a lot of Ava, Freya, Lilah, Lyra, Isla type names for girls. For boys there were a lot of Noahs and Reubens, usually an Oliver per year group at least as well.

Babies I've met recently have been Elsie x 2 and Teddy

I have a two year old and a one year old. We know quite a few Ottilie’s, two Lyra’s, a few Emmy’s with a variety of longer names shortened, lots of Evelyn’s and Elsie’s too!