The most common names for babies in your area

[RubyBirdy]

I recently moved to a different country in the U.K. to a village and of the new mums I’ve met 4 (!!!) of their little girls are called Olivia nn Liv or Livvy. Where I used to live there were 7 boys called Felix in my daughter’s nursery. What are the names you keep hearing on babies/toddlers recently and think oh my gosh another one?!

Jude
Jackson
Ava
Lily-May (and lots of other spellings)

Names I hear a lot from my sons nursery:

Amelia, Lily, Isabelle/Isabella

And so many Leo's, Theo's, Freddie's.

Oscar, Penny, Alex, Chloe

Isabella / Isabel / Isobel
Olivia

Henry
Oliver

Mia
George
Freya

Where are you from?

Isabelle Isobel Isabella etc
theodore/Theo

Jude is so common around here for boys and Chloe seems even more common. There seems quite a few of each in my son’s school.

Arlo seems to be everywhere all of a sudden

Around me, the most popular boys names (for years) have been Archie, Oscar and Teddy. I also know quite a few boys called Oliver, Noah, Lucas, Leo, Jacob and Thomas, although most of these are 8+ now so not really young children. Arlo, Jude, Reuben, Roman and Hudson seem very up and coming in the under 5s around me. David is super popular at my school, although I feel this is quite an anomaly when you look at national stats (we're in a very multicultural area and most of them are of African or Eastern European heritage).

For girls, Isla, Olivia and Sophia/Sofia have been popular for years. I know lots of girls called Sienna, Evie and Maya, although again these tend to be older girls now so not as many young ones. In the under 5s, it's all about Ivy, Harper, Mila and Aria right now. Poppy, Phoebe and Mabel are cropping up more too.

Anomalies in terms of names which are popular in the national stats, but seemingly not around me at this point in time:-

Theo/Theodore, George, Henry, Ava, Amelia, Lily, Isabella/Isabelle, Florence, Margot and Maeve.

Robin or Robyn seems to be having a mini surge here , along with the usual George, Henry, Oliver etc. Also Rupert.

Girls - Penelope, Rose/Rosa/Rosie and Olivia.

Girls: Ada, Gracie, Elsie
Boys: Noah, Jude, Eli/Elijah

Our DD is 3 so that's really her age group

Oscar, Harry, Alexander, freddie

elodie, Olive, Ruby, Rosie, Esme, harper

Lots of Noahs, Theos and made up names beginning with K for boys

Girls - Ava, Harper, anything hyphenated ending in -May, -Mai or -Mae

People tend to stick with actual names rather than diminutives. I've known a lot of Olivias but they've never been Liv or Livvy.

Multiple Ottilies and Harrisons at DD’s nursery.

Arthur, Henry, George, Harry, Finley, tons of Freddies. Oh lots of Rowan and Robin too.

Evie, Erin, Eden… all the Es basically. Girls seems to have more variety but always very vowelly.
Florence

Lots of Judes, Theo, Noah, Finley, Frankie, Oscar

Girls it’s short names ending in ‘a’ I’ve noticed eg Maya, Mia,Thea, Isla

Tommy/Ronnie/Reggie/Finley/Arlo/Albie/Oakley for every little boy lately. Jude starting to appear a lot too

Leo and Theo and then lots of A's...Arthur, Alfie, Albie, Archie etc

Florence, Ivy, Lily, Poppy, Isla for the girls. In the pre-school there were 3 Gracie's and a Macy and a Lacey...which made me chuckle.

Lots of Arthur, Jude, Amelia, Olivia, Ellie, Theo, Freddie, Jackson, Ava, Lily.

I work in retail and meet a lot of kids

Arlo
George
Teddy
Noah
Alfie
Ronnie
Arthur
Ernie
Ernest
Lennie

Something-may/mae
Florence
Mabel
Olivia
Sophie/Sophia
Grace/gracie
Poppy
Ivy
Nancy
Elsa
Elsie

All names that when I was naming my dc years ago,just didnt come up as they where 'old fashioned' or 'too out there'

Funny how fashions change-i work with a lady who is calling her baby Hazel-it's a lovely name but I remember saying (when I was pregnant with pfb 29 years ago) that it was 'just not a name you'd call a baby' and I wanted to call her (should she have been a boy) after my grandad (leonard) which everyone turned their noses up at because 'it's an old man's name'

Now every second baby is lennie/len

Three Judes in the baby group.

I work in a small village school. We have 3 Harriets (all in the same KS2 class), 2 Sebs, 2 Alfies, 2 Jacks, 2 Olivers, 2 Theos, 2 Henrys and 2 Sophias.

When my teen dd was a toddler, the boys were all Harry and Theo.
I’m not sure if that has changed or not

Mohammed theres about 5 Mohammed in my son's class

Theo, Leo, Alfie, Archie, Harry, Jack

Amelia, Olivia, Evie, Ava, Ellie, Lily