Names that are destined to become very popular

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I am racking my brains for a name for DD3. So far I have had Claudia, Camille, Esme, Francesca and Louisa.

We cannot make our minds up totally and out of the above names I think Claudia, Esme and Louisa are going to become popular over the next few years and want to avoid anything that will become the next "Grace" - DD1 is Grace and I love it but sick to the back teeth of hearing it every 5 minutes.

Anyone have any names which are destined to become the next Top 5 for the 2010's thus I should avoid!

I think Diana is lovely - bet people have been avoiding it for last decade or so but one day the obvious connotation won't be there any more ...

Jemima lovely imho!
Don't see many either...in fact,have only met one other...

Loads of Esmes around here. I also know a Luisa.

hi pg

i like claudia the best.

Lots of

Grace
Sophie
Megan
Esme
Isabel (or variants)
Jessica
Lauren (maybe moving on from this though)
Olivia
Eve/Evie
Imogen
Ruby
Charlotte

I think that Eleanor is increasing in popularity also - with lots of the little girls being shortened to Ellie.

If you wanted to end in an 'a' and not be popular there is always Linda. DD is Caitlin and I know it is supposed to be very popular but she is the only one in the school -small school with single class intake - but that is right through from nursery to year 5. The same cannot be said for DS's name - there are at least two others.

Vronsky - why not go around telling everyone that Kitty is going to be in the Top 10 names list this year.....that should put anyone seriously thinking of using it right off! I seriously don't think it will be the next Freya - at least I hope not. Mine is almost 8 anyway so she's well ahead of the trend if it is! Mind you, lots of people comment of how 'unusual' her name is........I've always taken that to mean they didn't like it!!!!

Isla and Iona is also quite poplular here. And there are masses of Ruby's and Ellie's and tons of Eva/Ava's/Eve's.
I also know a few Leila's - which I would have thought unusual but apparently not.

pg - do you like Annabel or Jemima - I think they are similar to the 'Claudia' type names but unlikely to become over-commonly used (IYSWIM). Also Camilla is nice (shortened to Milly or Cammie) but also unlikely to be very well used.
Or Felicity?

Names I love are:

Larissa (DD's name)
Imogen
Lydia
Camille
Evelyn
Morwenna

Popular names around here are:

Ruby
Jessica/Jessika
Abbie
Ellie
Megan
Isabel
Milly

Info from the office of national statistics shows the following trends

It looks as if names creep up the charts a little as people avoid the most popular and choose one from further down hence that one moves up and so on.
For example Grace in 2003=13th, 2004 =11th, 2005=7th, 2006=2nd, 2007=First.

Also watch out for X factor/big brother etc competitors names and other reality TV shows as they creep in as well.

top 100 girls names in England/Wales

I've added the link for boys as well in case anyone wants a look.
top 100 boys names in England/Wales

Don't forget to Google your babes name before deciding on it - you never know what might pop up?

I think you are able to download the info for Scotland and Ireland as well have a nosey round the ONS site.

HTH otherwise a Crystal ball is all you need

Love Annabel and especially Jemima
Jemima classic,pretty and still unusual.
But I am biased!

Oh drat, thought we'd been different in shortlisting Esme and Eloise, and both have been mentioned on here! Those who know lots of Esmes/Eloises - where abouts do you live? I don't know any, but do live in deepest darkest Yorkshire so wonder how long they'll take to reach the sticks?

We are in Surrey so quite a way from you.

Names which have (IMO) peaked are

Lola
Grace
Ellie
Isobel/Isobella

I predict

Claudia
Ruby
Edith
Talulah

Will become very popular.

Belive me; I am very "on trend" with names and have 3 DC's whose names shot up in popularity once I'd used them.

I live in the South.

There is a most annoying man with a daughter who's an Eloise who has a dance lesson at the same time as my older Eloise does. He WILL NOT SHUT UP when she is trying to get changed. 'Do this... No, other shoe... Eloise! No, you need to do that... DOn't do that, Eloise! Eloise!' The poor little thing isn't allowed to sort herself out without a barrage of commands.

My Eloise and I just exchange amused looks.

I think it is very difficult to predict. ds has a name we considered unusual (not that that is the reason we chose it) but a year or so after he was born an Eastenders baby had the shortening, and so it shot up the list. dd's short name is perennially popular, but her long name is more unusual. Neither have yet had any child with the same name in their class or circle of friends, so it doesn't really matter. Every now and then I wish we'd called them something more unusual (I have a very unusual name, which I enjoy) but mostly not as their names are just right for them. dh has the no1 name for his birth year, but apart from at university when there were tons of them (we knew seven or eight) it's never been an issue. His wider family thought his name was outrageous, so you never can tell!

I think the simpler, more classic names are a good bet at the moment, as are names from our parents generations (we tend to pick names from the generation before in the UK - ie after Grannies rather than Aunts IYSWIM).

Esme and Eloise were both on our list for ds2 if he'd been a she.

I know of 2 Esmes (and an Emmy) and 1 Eloise.

Am in SE.

Asher is one to watch for boys.

Wonder if the name Gloria will ever come back?

I'm so annoyed that Kitty is becoming popular- though not enough to change my mind if this bump turns out to be a girl. I've known since I was about 13 that if I ever had a girl that she would be Kathleen, Kitty for short. It was my granny's name, and I really don't want to not name my child after her just because it's a bit trendy at the moment.

I wanted Camille on our shortlist when I was pg with DC1 but DP is German and he said his family would think we had called the baby Camel, like the animal. Not sure I believe him totally.

I wanted Constance for DD but when she arrived she was a Lucy but now seems to be called Lulu.

I keep hearing how popular Ava is but I don't know any new babies with that name - I'm in the north - is it a north / south divide thing?

Anything beginning with an I and usually ending in a Y-i.e. Immy, Izzie, Imo-anything a v thin woman would shout whilst air-kissing at ballet . Loads of Lucy's our way too. Ooh, Ava is gorgeous!