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?!

Girls

Isla
Amelia
Mya

Boys

Arlo
Cohan
Arthur

I will say, my daughter has a lovely mix of names in her nursery with no two of the same such as:
Honey
Joyce
Rosanna
Scarlet
Gwennan
Lucas
Blair
Noah
Ezra
Millie

I think like many names it must have significant geographical hot spots as nationwide it’s not even in the top 50 and fewer than 1 in 500 boys have that name.

In fact if you look at even the most popular boys names they still only have a prevalence of around 1 in 150 nationwide. If distribution were even there would be relatively few name clashes at schools.

Finn, Jude and Reuben are the boys names I hear most often around me. Leo, Teddy and Luca also popular.

Girls are more varied but often along the Evie/Elsie/Elodie/Amelie line. And quite a lot of double barreling e.g. Amber-Grace or Isabella-Rose.

Arthur, Alfie, Arlo, Reuben
Ruby, Eva, Ava, Evie, variations on Isabelle/isabella

I noticed an Edwin in my sons preschool class a few weeks ago. Not very common. I think they are Nigerian. Nice English name.

I have an Elizabeth. Primary school age.

William is fairly common. A lot of Evie Mae, Ellie Mae etc. 😬

My Dcs are in their teens but babies I have met lately include;

Logan
Hazel
Finn
Ivy
Mabel
Ruby

Love the plant names, always did. However I did hear also of a toddler Beryl. I detest that name- yet Ruby is nice, and DS2 aged 13 has an Emerald in his swimming class. Ruby and Emeralds of course are also gemstones. So it's funny what catches the ear in a positive way and what does not.

🤣 And I have a William -he’s the only one at his primary school and I’ve never met another younger one at various kids groups either (only teenage ones). It just goes to show how area specific naming trends are.

I would say the most common young kids names where I am in Wales are Noah, Leo, Theo, Harry/Harri, Charlie, Ava, Efa, Marnie, Poppy, Lilah/Lyla, Lily. But even then, not many actual repeats, just a lot of similar sounding ones (I give you Theo, Leo, Arlo and Milo all in the same year as well as Ava, Efa, Evie, Elsie, Ellie, Esme etc again in same year). What’s with all these 2 syllable vowely names? 🤣

It's one of those names with several spellings - Jaxon, Jaxson, Jackson etc as well so if it's popular in an area and people are using different spellings, there's going to be quite a few of them.

Evie and Ava still seem to be going strong around here too. I think they’re the equivalent of Sarah and Lauren from my generation where you had at least two in every class at school.

Lots of Elijahs & Ottilies here

Arthur, Charlie and a ton of Henrys. Imogen, Emily, Rose/Rosie, and various forms of Lila/Lyla/Lyra.

Archie Arlo Enzo Olivia Elsie Daisy

Oh and hundreds of Lilys and Kirsten’s

What an odd comment. It's entirely possible to pick a statistically popular name and not actually know anyone else with that name when you pick it. If they meet other people with that name along the way, so be it. That's life. It would be far more unusual to never meet someone with the same name as you (and is impossible for parents to be to predict, especially as trends change).

Personally, I'd find it a lot more 'creepy' to have a 'unique' name (as in truly one of a kind), as it makes you instantly traceable.

There are loads around me too. It's currently 66th in the charts so there are plenty about. Not my style at all, but definitely not just a joke name. They exist in their thousands now.

Oliver, Olivia, Amelia, Frankie, George and Henry are the most popular in my school (with many duplicates in every year group). I have 3 George’s, 2 Frankie’s, 2 Oliver’s, 2 Olivia’s and 2 Amelia’s in my class alone (so that’s almost half my class made up of duplicated names!) In my parallel year group class, there are 2 more Frankie’s, 1 Amelia, 2 Oliver’s, 2 Henry’s and a George.

We do have a lot of Leo’s in school, but funnily enough my year group don’t have any this year (we had 4 last year though) and I’m sure there are none in KS1, so maybe it’s dying out? 🤷‍♀️

Amelia and Olivia have been the top names for about 20 years now. They are nice names but I suppose when you call your child that, you have to expect that they will be one of dozens and will probably have to be known as a nickname to differentiate between them all eg Liv/Livvie etc or simply Amelia H, Amelia P, Amelia D etc at school.

Kirsten . Haven’t heard any of these around my area, and from this thread, doesn’t seem popular elsewhere either.

I have a William too. 👍

Nova
Ada/Ava/isla/eva

Boys: arlo

Florence’s everywhere
Charlie
Lucas
Lily

I’ve never met anyone called Kirsten before! I wasn’t expecting there to be a region in the UK where this is very popular, assuming you are in the UK?

Yes, it would be interesting to hear which age group these Kirsten's are, as there's only been a handful of girls called Kirsten registered in England and Wales since 2019 according to the stats, and only around 70 odd on the last 10 years. It would be highly unusual (although not impossible) for several to be growing up in the same town (and statistically impossible for it to be the quoted 'hundreds')

https://names.darkgreener.com/#kirsten

Although everyone has a different perception of popular I guess. Maybe some people are simply listing names they know more than one of (and possibly from a much bigger age range than young children), rather than names they know lots of currently young children with (and to them, knowing more than one person with that name makes it feel like they know 'hundreds' 😂 ).