Most overused first name?

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Chloe

Alfie, all the Alfies

In my area Jack and Ava

alfie and archie and teddy noah by the bucket load
Sienna Eva evie isla Amelia for girls

Anything with May, or Mae.

Ottilie is moving up the ranks.

Thing is, though Mohammed is the most popular name nationwide, it doesn’t seem so because I think the majority of Mohammeds go by a second name instead. I’m a supply teacher and have taught in lots of classes which I would have expected from the religious/ethnic make up might have had a few Mohammeds, but there very rarely is one.

Olivia, Ava, Arthur, Evie on the other hand…

Isla

Ella Olivia Jack.

@AnneKipankitoo 🤣🤣🤣🤣

In north London, shout Theo, Isabella, Lily, Finn, Mia or Jack and the whole playground comes running.

I know loads of grown ups called:

Brian
David
Stephen
James
John
Niamh
Aoife
Sarah
Emma
Louise

and loads of children called:

Oscar
James
Leo
Grace
Eva/Ava etc
Sophia
Jack
Isabel

Oscar

amelia

My DD's name is one of those mentioned but I don't care, I love it (she's 15)! I'd already decided that if I ever had another daughter after my first that she would have that name 23 years ago...

Ada, Ottilie, Evelyn, Tilly, Sophie, Sophia

Albie, Alfie, James, Jack, Henry, Theo, George, Louie, Freddie

Freddie, they’re absolutely everywhere around here - go anywhere with under-7s and there is definitely a Fred there.

Girls, bit less cut and dry IMO. A lot of L names and endless vowel names.

Anything with May/Mae. Lily. Ava/Eva. Olivia. Amelia. Harry, Theo, Jack, Alfie, Hayden/Kayden/Jaden. Jamie

Isla and Ava.

They aren’t ‘overused’ names. They’re quite rightly popular names because parents like them for their children.

Could have been worse (Doug and Dinsdale).

Ava, Mia, Olivia, Leo, Albie, George, Henry, harry, Louis/lewis. I detest when the girls names are followed up by names. I.e, Elsie Mae, Ava Mae, Ronnie Mae, Mia Hannah etc. It's been done to death and sounds so common now.

It truly shocks me that people are still using Olivia and Jack in 2025 and yet their popularity endures, especially Olivia.

They’re nice names, but they’re not that nice.

I do wonder how the amalgamation of numbers for Theodore/Theo/Teddy would look because there are so very many of them, mostly under 10 years of age.

But that would be a transgression of the Unwritten Law.
I personally am dying for time to cycle around and give us Jane, Janet, Carol, Margaret, Susan, John, David, Stephen, Paul, Andrew, RIchard, Geoff and wild crazy eccentric names like those!

OMG, both my boys names are mentioned...... I shall hang my head in shame....

This thread feels goady. We've all got feelings about names,many personal.

You never know if the person you're communicating with has a loved one with those names. I'm sure plenty will be happy with the name they've given their child.

Perhaps get a hobby?

A family member has just had a Paul. 👍

But if they have a second son, I think Mike could be a 60s name too far...

Oscar, Oliver, Fin/Finley, Arthur, Teddy/Theo/Ted.
Lily, Evie, Esme, Isla, Aria - any girls name ending in -ie or -ia round here.