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Which names do you predict to be the next big thing?

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Tillysmama · 29/07/2009 23:48

Which names do you predict to be the next big thing?
Those not currently very popular but there'll be loads in a few years?

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ADealingMummy · 03/08/2009 18:45

My tips are
Yolanda
Arlo
Mabel

eastendmummy · 03/08/2009 20:21

my ds (18 months) is Caleb which is a family name and not that popular - yet! I've got a really unusual first name and it's been great although have to always spell it for people which gets on my nerves as it's actually really bloody obvious. I wanted our ds to have an unusual name but one that he could spell/people wouldn't get wrong. I've had a lot of people call him Calem though (hmm).

mslucy · 03/08/2009 20:22

I have a Stanley who would have been a Violet if he'd been a girl.

I also have an Angus. There are lots of boys of his age with Scottish names - Finn/Finlay being the most popular.

Also like names like Lennie, Victor and Reggie.

Vincent is very popular in these parts (NW London).

I see a Vincent revival on its way.

Horton · 03/08/2009 20:38

I think Sylvia, Frances, Phyllis and Jane may all make quite big comebacks soon. For boys, I reckon a return to the old classics like Michael, Andrew and David might be on the cards. Nancy and Vincent could definitely be popular soon. I think things like Violet and Stanley are already pretty popular (at least among people I know).

kittypink · 03/08/2009 20:58

I met a clementine today, also met an edith.
There are a few mollys around. We chose Ava-Rose.

I agree with vincent revival

maggievirgo · 03/08/2009 21:19

I think Victor as well as Vincent... names ending in -er such as caspar, jasper, hector are all quite cool.

NotanOtter · 03/08/2009 21:25

was thinking victor today

when i was teen i met a fit one

total tosser but that appeals when one is 17 he is 22 and gorgeous!!

vincent already on the up!

met a Nelson recently

crankytwanky · 03/08/2009 21:31

Eden is getting more popular round our way- for boys and girls.

There's a Ptolemy too.

I wonder if Clive will get popular soon. I think in the next 10-20 years it will do, as all the baby boomer Clives reach their dotage and people name their LOs after them.

My Dad & fil are Clyve & Kevin, neither of which I like, although my pg hormones are making me warm to Clyve.

rusmum · 03/08/2009 21:33

Do you knowdd would have been vincent if a ds- but i really didnt see it becoming popular- it is a faimily name.

Mind you didnt see ruby as popular (6 years ago) and dd2 (1) is rose so there you go!!

rusmum · 03/08/2009 21:35

my friend had a norah and an ada too

Zoomum · 03/08/2009 21:48

Sylvie is a lovely name, I always liked also Luca for a boy, but now millions of littely boys are called Luca.

What about the name Noam for a boy, it is a hebrew name (I like hebrew names), meaning, gentle (or along those lines)....

NotanOtter · 03/08/2009 21:58

noam was on my shortlist for ds5 - i mentioned it on here

in rl people were vile!

margotandjerry · 03/08/2009 22:49

I think longer more womanly warrior names are coming in as a backlash against all the 2-syllable very pretty girly Daisy, Molly, Lily names and envisage a rise of French names after Angelina Jolie's daughter Vivienne

I tip:

Bellatrix
Boudicca

Clementine
Celestine
Seraphine
Eglantine

Louby3000 · 03/08/2009 23:12

Fergus
Lorcan
Magnus
Bernard
Osian

Astrid
Norah
Maeve
Orla

I am predicting a more regional/celtic embrace of olde names....

I cannot think anyone would really call their kid Boudicca?!!

Tinker · 03/08/2009 23:14

That conductor bloke and his wife [philistine emoticon] who recently went to Switzerland to die had a Boudicca and a Caracatcus.

Tinker · 03/08/2009 23:15

Too many 'a's there

Louby3000 · 03/08/2009 23:17

Caracatcus?? No, plant name surely??

ispyjen · 04/08/2009 13:30

So glad I read this, I had a Vincent 16 months ago, and he's a lovely Vinnie, but he would have been Marianne had he been a girl - so relieved he wasn't as around here it would be shortened to Maz.

ispyjen · 04/08/2009 13:33

Am now expecting no 2 and am considering Catherine for a girl (so many nice short versions) but haven't thought of a boy yet.

Rollergirl1 · 04/08/2009 13:51

mslucy: Finn is an irish name (after irish legend Finn McCool), not scottish.

We went down the irish root and have Aoife for our DD and Finn for DS. Agree lots of gaelic names coming back.

My best friend has a 5 month old Mabel and another friend has just had a Stanley.

And my DD's Nursery class has multiples of the names: Gracie, Lily, Olivia, Erin, Ava, Mia. All pretty but far too popular.

eeyore2 · 04/08/2009 14:07

Hello Zoomum,
Noam is a beautiful Hebrew name which actually means 'pleasantness' although it also has the connotations of 'gentle'. It is best known from the famous biblical saying from Proverbs about wisdom which translates as "her ways are ways of pleasantness and all of her paths are peace". ('Her' refers to 'wisdom').
Sorry if boring, geek alert

Bubbaluv · 04/08/2009 14:23

Fiona? Was soooo popular in the 70s, so might make a comeback?

tummytickler · 04/08/2009 15:16

Also thinking Philip and Dennis.
What do you think of Cedric and Desmond? Do you think that they are due a comeback?

screamingabdab · 04/08/2009 16:07

Nigel, of course

Cocodrillo · 04/08/2009 21:41

Edie, Edith

Rufus seems to be on the up, thought it was unusual but there are a few around, also Vincent.