Names in your kids class

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Obviously not anything too outing, but thought it would be interesting to see names in kids classes/teams..

I will post mine

Year 1

Archie, Arlo, Arthur, Cai, Carter, Dylan, Ethan, Frankie, George, Ieuan, Isaac, Jake, Max, Nico, Parker, Reuben, Rory, Teddy, Tomos, William

Alys, Ayla, Beatrice, Charlotte, Darcie, Eden, Emily, Evelyn, Ffion, Francesca, Hallie, Isabelle, Isla, Jessica, Lily, Maisie, Olivia, Penelope, Phoebe, Poppy, Rose, Seren, Sophia, Willow

Secondary so I don't know all their year groups, but half DDs friendship group sèm to be called a variation of Bella. The others being Gracie and Beth.

Ok....and the problem is that everyone at that school now knows that someone else from that school uses Mumsnet?! Is that an issue?

Shocker isn't it?!

I won't be posting a class list but I know lots of Ethan, Jack, Josh and Louies.

There's more to it than that.

I'd love to hear what it is?

not child’s class as such but in their school we have a…

Amarachi
Bambi
Binky
Delta
Flossy
Melvina
Ophelia
Sunday
Troy
Truevine
Vogue
Zeus

My child is in preschool and the names I hear are: Freddie, Arlo, Albie, Charlotte, Theo

The info on here could be available indefinitely.
The set of names could identify the school and the individuals.

There’s a little girl called Lolita in my daughter’s class, surprised me when I heard it

Quinn, margot, maia, Arthur, Freddie, Jackson, jasmine, rosa, rory, kaia, otis, Edith, Clara, bo

Exactly. Just typical of some of the types you get on here - getting themselves worked up over absolutely nothing! 🙄🙄🙄🙄

And then what might happen?

And that's a problem because...

Exactly!! It's not 😅

In my kids primary school we have

seraphina
horace
joanna
christina
minerva
jeanie
leonie
frank
austin
mary
winter

@Whateverwillwedonowthought it was a bit like Gary. Don’t get many of them these days. Was honestly surprised to hear it.

Impressively, over the 4 classes and multiple intervention groups I've had, there have only been 2 names from the entire thread (I've checked carefully, too). I'm quite surprised!

*Jake and Luca/s

Don’t want to be too outing, but apart from my DS almost all the boys names either end in a O sound (think Theo, Leo, Arlo, Milo…) or a 2 syllable “ee” ending sound (Charlie, Harry, Alfie, Lenny etc). My sons name is of the classic/traditional sort (Alexander, William, James etc) and it seems to stand out at school far more than it would have 20/30 years ago.

For girls there does seem to be slightly more variety - but there are still a lot of 2 syllable vowel heavy names ending an “ah” (Ava, Isla, Lyla, Mia etc) or 2 syllable names ending in an “ee” sound similar to the boys (Evie, Lily, Phoebe, Poppy etc).

Even though there are no doubles as such, imo the sounds of the names tend to blend together quite a lot. Personally I think that if you want your kids name not to blend in then you need to avoid a 2 syllable, vowel heavy name - whatever the actual popularity of the individual name (for example there are no Olivers or Olivias in DS class).

Not an entire year group but lots of

Theo
Leo
Hugo
type names

Girls
Martha
Betsy
Clara

And?

Also here to ask - what is the real world problem of posting names? What harm will this create in the real world other than outing the OP? Interesting how no one has explained!

Because there is no problem. Social media sent everyone loopy

Which name is so unusual? I am intrigued as they all seem quite normal names.

Across current classes and various clubs/nursery/playgroups and people we know etc
Fox x2
Athena
Giovanna
Hugo x3
Otis
Otto
Julia
Alice
Ever
Jemima
Allegra
Xevi
Maeve
Adeline
Florence x2
Effie
Emmie
Saul
Atlas
Ivy x2
Addison
Parker
Mabel x2
Darla
Clay
Percival