The name I like is top 3?

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Walkietalkie7 · 16/12/2025 08:36

The name we have chosen is the 3rd most popular name in our country for girls.

244 babies with this name were born in our country last year.

People with popular names, is it really so bad and should we choose something else? What about popularity now vs when I was growing up in the 90s? I read that the year I was born Emma was given to 3% of babies and Olivia which is no1 now was given to 1.4% last year.

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TheBirdintheCave · 18/12/2025 15:55

amy480 · 18/12/2025 11:30

Freya is a really pretty name and I like that it can’t be shortened. I think with popular names you are expecting to encounter a few people with the same name at some stage but you’d be very unlucky to have 4 in a class like years ago. I had the name Savannah (outside top 100) on my baby name list - didn’t use it but just yesterday met a baby 6 weeks old (same as my dd) with that very name who lives close to us so every chance they could be in the same class at school! My ds has a popular name, we have encountered a few out and about but honestly never been an issue and he totally owns his name!!

My daughter’s little friend is a Freya and gets called ‘Frey’ 😅

Calliopespa · 18/12/2025 22:34

Walkietalkie7 · 16/12/2025 09:47

Thanks @Mumofteenandtween the name we want to use is Freya. But it’s still only 244 babies out of 22k births, around 1%, so I’d hope it wouldn’t be like when I was younger and there were 4 Chloe’s in one class.

I actually only know one well and she is late 50's!

But my dc are a bit older than the current "tranche" of children so perhaps that's why.

I'd far rather a popular name than a yoonique clanger.

And it is generally luck as to who else turns up in their class. Specific social microcosm is more relevant to that than national stats.

Thatcannotberight · 18/12/2025 23:50

The three Freyas I know are all teenagers.

MayaPinion · 19/12/2025 05:39

My DD and DS both have names that are top 10. My DS knows one other with his name and DD knows two - though they both go by perfectly lovely nicknames (think Olivia - Liv - Livvy). They’re great names, easy to spell, and recognisable - names that will be suitable regardless of the career they choose or where they live. As someone with an unusual name that isn’t spelt how it sounds I was keen to make sure that my own kids’ names weren’t the most interesting thing about them.

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