Baby names in your area

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Curious what reoccurring names people are hearing where they live? I personally hadn’t heard of many Ottilies until recently and now seems to be quite popular likewise Margot, Maeve and Esme. I live just outside London.

We’re in London and names of young children include Arlo, Stanley, Quentin, Margot, Edith, Mabel - lots of ‘granny names’!

In South London and I've heard of five baby Sadie/Zadie's in the past couple of months!

I went to a baby class with my 6 month old last week, the babies were:

• Harry
• Rosie
• Isla
• Bonnie
• Otis
• Maisie
• Layla
• Eric
• Jude

This is up North

Where I live (east mids) there are lots of:

harper
eden
olive
ruby
rowan
noah
alexander
finley
elodie
aurora

Rafferty and Jasper are in vogue here, naice village not far from Bristol.

Esme Evelyn are my friends daughters twin girls name's

What do you think are the names Esme and Evelyn old fashioned?

Loads of Amelies and Arthurs popping up here in East Anglia.

Surrey:
Hugo, Arthur, George, Ralph, Albie, Theo

Ottilie, Matilda, Freya, Felicity, Violet

More Lenny’s than the stats would suggest. But as I’ve said before, really any 2 syllable name ending in “oh” (especially Theo, Leo, Arlo and Willow) and any 2 syllable name ending in “ee” and “ah” (too many to mention but Ava, Marnie, Lily, Poppy, Noah, Charlie, Harry and Alfie seem especially popular) - this type of name accounts for about three quarters of the kids in DS primary/preschool.

Of the ones you mention OP, I know two Esme’s and Maeve’s but only one Margot and Ottilie. I think some name trends tend to hit a little later where I am in North Wales.

East Mids here

Isla
Freya
Matilda
Harper

Arthur - so many Arthur's
Archie
Miles / Myles unexpectedly
Oscar
Theo

I don't know many folks with babies tbh but among the dds friends in various parts of the UK we have:
Arthur
Dominic
Archie
Isla
Theo

I can’t believe how popular Theo still seems to be. We know sooo many Theos aged 15 and under that to me it feels so dull and overused.

In our area:

Sienna
Isla
Lily
Freya
Emily
Olivia
Ava

Oliver
Leo
Harry

It's strange - all these names are (more or less) the same name very popular when my children were born 15-18 years ago. Ottilie seems a newbie but all the Avas, Freyas, Theos etc have been around for many years.

If you go to Baby names for girls in England and Wales - Office for National Statistics, you can download the data set for 2024. One of the tabs is:

Table 7: Most popular name for baby girls by area of usual residence of mother, England and Wales, 2024

The most popular name in your region might not be in the top 30 names. E.g. In Hackney it's Sarah (#130), in Sefton it's Jessica (#95), in Blackburn with Darwen
it's Aaminah (#565).

Any made up name beginning with K

Babies I’ve known recently:
Etta
Esme
Autumn
Opal
Alexander
Isla
Harry
River

We’re in South Wales - still lots of Arlo, Jude, Noah, Elsie, Ivy etc.

I don't think baby names have changed much since mine were little in the noughties. Recent names I've heard are Sid (X2), Esther, Edith, Annie, Zadie

repeated boys name in my circle are:

theo
freddie
harry
arlo
George - so so many.

evie - again lots.
ava
maya
isabel
isla
freya
ottilie

Arlo
Ophelia
Amelia
Oliver

I'm in the north east and along with the ottilies, monty's, archies, oliver/olivia and mabels we also have a good smattering of catherines, lucy's, sophie's, rachel's, emily's, christopher's, joshua's, david's etc. Feel like I'm half in my own childhood and the class mimics mine from the 90's!

Isla, Orla, Elsie, Finley and Arthur wall-to-wall up here in Scotland

Oliver
Archer

Poppy
Evie