Is Ruby too common now?

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We both love Ruby... but is it too common now?

And what about Lola? .. And which is better?!

They are both 'popular' names at the moment. However, if you love them use them!

(I prefer Ruby)

I think they're both pretty common, Ruby more so - sure it's in Top 5 this year?.

Both nice names, but the popularity puts me off. Wouldn't put everyone off, though.

Ruby is perhaps overly popular. Lola isnt though, my friend has called her DD Lola and she is a beautiful lovely little girl. I don't know any other Lolas.

Bounty reckon that Ruby has been the 2nd most popular girls name this year. Number 9 overall, including boys. Lola is around the 100 mark. As a name I prefer Ruby but would have a hard time choosing something so popular.

Saying that...I haven't met any of either.

Yes, very common.

Yes, very common.

Ruby is currently the most popular girls name Lola is something like 53. (Goverment website)

We had chosen Lola for dd, but when we mentioned it to a few friends and family they all said they associated it with prostitution . My initial reaction was that I didn't care and found it quite funny, but we did end up calling her something else.

Yep I get the Lola with prostitution link but I dont think it matters ....

Ruby is very common, and I still can't help seeing an elderly woman in a nylon overall! However it is better than Lola which conjures up an entirely different picture!
As you can guess, I don't like either.

I like Lola.
Don't like Ruby (plus its common - around here anyway!)
Lola is cool.

i LOVE ruby- and actually dont know any in RL. know loads of Lolas tho. must depend on where you live!

Yes, and then some.

Ruby is a pretty name but sadly very over used

Love em both....and i dont know any!

yes

loads and loads of Rubys at my ds's school. They are all known as, say Ruby M or Ruby A! You call Ruby and dozens of little heads turn! Don't really love Lola, it's very of the moment so will date, I think.

If I called my DD Lola, I would have "Copacabana" stuck in my head for the rest of my life

I only know one little Ruby, actually.

yes very common but still very pretty

I really don't like lola, it's not really a name anyway

who cares if it is popular? - that doesn't stop people using the name Thomas or Oliver does it?

Does it matter if it is popular?

For some people it does matter, because they don't want to be one of 3 or 4 other Ruby's or Jack's in their class.

I have a very common name (well, common in the 70s) and I hated it.. I would have much preferfed a more unique name.

Also very popular names tend to 'age' more, just like fashion. They become very much associated with a certain time period.

I know a couple of both. I prefer Ruby, although the Barry Manilow connotation with Lola is never a bad thing in my book.

Ruby is a very popular name, i recently stopped workign on a delivery suite and it felt like every other baby born was a ruby or a daisy, so for that reason i avoided those names for my dd (although she still ahs a common name whihc no doubt will be hundreds in her class when she gets to school)

Lola is sweet but i can;t help feeling that it is a bit common as in chavvy

both names popular due to famous people calling their children the same names, charlotte church for ruby and madonna calls lourdes lola and sara cox has a lola.

also i cna;t imagnine a lola as a 68 year old, can you?