Which boy names are you hearing the most of?

[Jenna277]

Anyone who works in a nursery, school setting.. please give me some name inspiration

2 weeks to go and we are going around in circles with names

Freddie, Theo, Leo, Dylan, Charlie, Wilf. But mainly Freddie. Millions of them.

Louis/Louie is everywhere round here.
Also Noah, Freddie, Theo, Reuben, Oscar, George, Oliver, Alexander, Thomas, Harry.

Max Ben and George.

I’m a registrar.
Theodore, Theo, Teddy, Albie, Arlo, George, Oliver, Harry, Luca all very popular at the moment

Archie, Teddy, Oscar, Noah, Arlo, Oliver, Leo, Roman and Lucas remain very popular around me and have been for a long long time now (15 years plus for all except maybe Teddy, Arlo and Roman). Names which are very popular around me, but not so much in the national stats, are David, Caleb, Jaxon, Jayden and Mason.

For under 5s, I'm starting to hear Jude, Albie, Rory, Frankie and Reuben quite a lot.

Jude, Felix, Sid/Sidney, Leo, Teddie, Mylo, Arlo, Freddie, Alfie

Kit, Hugo, Albie, Otto, Max

I think Christopher with Kit as a nn is a great choice.
Also Will! Not enough Wills, imo.

love!

Will? That’s a verb and a noun, someone’s last will…
Imagine saying “Will’s will will be here”

When will Simon become popular again? It’s a great name and massively underused currently.

Oh please!!! Hope not.

Whaaat! But it’s so dashing! And (showing my age here) when I was an impressionable tween all my friend’s hot older brothers were called Simon. We will have to agree to disagree!

Yes 18 years with a controlling gas lighter did it for me!

Jude, Theo, Ollie, Noah

Archie, Albie, Alfie, Teddy (for children and dogs), Jax/Jackson/Jack, Tom, Bill, Bobby.

I love Ned, short for Edward.

Theo, Arlo, Teddy, Albie, Freddie, Louis, Reuben, Felix, Beau, Arthur, Kit, Hugo, Isaac, Jude, Rory and Finn are all overused at the moment

My two adult sons on the classic list too. Never tire of those names.
Heard a boy called Gavin recently..not heard for a long time. Also Robbie

I don't like the sound of George. It is classic, it is popular but to me it's very ugly and I am mystified by its popularity. Ja-oORj !

my son has 4 Finns in his preschool room, a different one at football and two new babies at our church; Finn!

we also know multiple Freddie’s, a lot of Romans, Ruairidh & Reüben,

so many Freddie’s.

Slightly off topic but further to some PPs I know under 10s called:

Donnie
Desmond x2
Peter
David
Derrick
Mark

It’s like the Americans who call their popular All-American sons things like Kevin and Trevor… used to be weird to me but now clearly they’re just ahead of the curve and all the new parents are naming their kids after their grandparents. David Mitchell’s kid is called Barbara and that Irish loose woman who is married to the footballer has a kid called Pamela.

But ones I’m hearing all the time, and so therefore names to avoid OP, are:

Freddie (absolutely everywhere has at least 2 Freddies)
Anything vowelly - Theo, Leo, Louie/s, Arlo, Ewan/Euan weirdly, Rory
The boring classics - Charlie, Harry, Tom, George, Henry
The too-obvious ‘cool’ names - Rowan, River, Axel. Never actually met a Bodhi.

Slightly off topic but further to some PPs I know under 10s called:

Donnie
Desmond x2
Peter
David
Derrick
Mark

It’s like the Americans who call their popular All-American sons things like Kevin and Trevor… used to be weird to me but now clearly they’re just ahead of the curve and all the new parents are naming their kids after their grandparents. David Mitchell’s kid is called Barbara and that Irish loose woman who is married to the footballer has a kid called Pamela.

But ones I’m hearing all the time, and so therefore names to avoid OP, are:

Freddie (absolutely everywhere has at least 2 Freddies)
Anything vowelly - Theo, Leo, Louie/s, Arlo, Ewan/Euan weirdly, Rory
The boring classics - Charlie, Harry, Tom, George, Henry
The too-obvious ‘cool’ names - Rowan, River, Axel. Never actually met a Bodhi.

Another one I cannot imagine returning is Timothy.

I work in a school and it's mainly still - Harry, Henry, Alfie, Jack, Oliver (Ollie) and James that I hear a lot. To be honest any name in the top 10, wouldn't be something I'd choose, simply because you can be sure there will be at least one other child in the class by the same name!!

There’s a Timothy in my daughter’s class (primary school)!