The new Sharon and Kevin?

[lumpasmelly]

Just wondering what all you MNers think are going to be the new "Sharon/Kevin" type names for our kids generation (i.e. names that will become dreadfully common in the future, and the subject of sketch show stereotypes!)

BTW - please don't take offence if you are a Sharon or a Kevin....there are lots in my family and none of them are common, but they DO get a lot of stick for their names!!!

gutted to see you all consider my ds name chavvy, he's adopted and i didn't get to choose it, i suspected it was chavvy but still that you all think that and wonder if he is going to be judged by people because of his name his whole life !!

i live in a quite nice area btw and do not own a single addidas or nike item !!

I didnt think Alfie was chavvy until I read this! I remember it being a trendy name a few years ago for people who had kids and worked in the media / music etc - along with Stanley and Marley. Don't worry about it xxx

Here in the states you can't swing a cat without hitting a Jayden/Kayden/Zayden/Kaiden/blah blah blah...what irritates me is that it has ruined Aidan for me, which is a great name IMO.

Also Madison and Addison. What's next, I ask you? I'm going to place bets on Cadison, with some "clever" soul spelling it Kadysin.

ocdgirl - I have never judged anyone I have actually met in RL on their name, and I bet that the majority of people here never have either, so don't worry

I know a Sharon and a Tracy now I think about it, and they are both well educated, well adjusted and very likable women. I've never even thought about their names until now

my boy's called Oscar.
unusual 6 years ago , then someone on Eastenders nicked it... i'm gutted

ocdgirl we open our big fat mouths and opine on proposed names on here but we are sweetness itself in RL. And I'm the one who has already said I have a cousin Tracy and a daughter Ellie. (I also have two nephews Oscar and Victor - their (foreign, tsk wouldn't you know!) mother gets rather irritated when I call her other two boys Tango and Foxtrot)

Tango, love it. Milo and Jago have been done to death! (only joking, I like those names).

I'm only in a critical gear on here. in real life, people could call their children Ellie-may and rupert (brother and sister) and i'd just let it wash over me you know?

Alfie's not bad at all! It's the same as Freddie, Archie, Billy, Robbie.. It's common as in popular!

One of my faves Dylan sometimes gets slated as being chav but I don't care as I like it and I disagree. Just because it's not James or Edward .. doesn't mean it's CHAV!

and breathe..

I think people are picking more and more 'old' names like Arthur, Evie, etc and there are tons of Daisys, Poppys and Isabellas on my street. Common just means popular and the only shame is having to add your last initial when you go to school. I was Sarah P. for years since there were another 3 Sarahs in my class (born 1979 obviously!). I have an Annabel which I suppose is semi-common, but also a Dominy and I bet she'll be the only one in her class at school!

I've just had a thought, you don't think Harry's going to be the next Gary or Barry do you??

Kyle and Jayden without a doubt

Well, Getorf it was actually a mum at our pre school a few years ago.

Between looking at me despisingly for mentioning breastfeeding (urgh I could never do that)
she was complaining that another mum had 'stolen' her child's unique name, also calling her son 'Lee-jay', when in fact this was totally wrong because her Lee-jay was named after his dad who had EXACTLY the same name and therefore it was important.

I am unsure whether to add that this was especially important due to the fact that Lee-jay senior was currently banged up for GBH.

I promise this is completely true.

[not judging]

I'm a Tracy who grew up in the 70s and it was naff even then . When I was in primary school one year five out of eleven girls in the class were called Tracy, so we were known as Big Tracy, Little Tracy, Fat Tracy, Posh Tracy and Smelly Tracy. .

I was determined my own kid wouldn't have the same fate so I have given him an unusual yet classic name which hasn't become trendy yet, even though it is shared by a fairly famous and attractive actor. I'm not saying what it is though.

Harry is so hideous as a name. It's not a real name, it's a form of Henry!

Jack and Chloe are obviosuly going to massively date and Alfie..... >

I'm just surprised that people still choose names like Jack - last year alone over 8000 babies were named Jack !

Especially when there are so, so many lovely names to choose from!

There are lots of names like Jack, Evie, Alfie, Chloe etc which are being used a lot now, but they will be the Simon, John, Rachel and Sarahs of the future.

In order to get the future Tracy, Sharon, Wayne and Kevin, you need another vital ingredient along with frequency.

Flight, maybe that mum should have called her DS Gee-Bee-Haitch to have been both apt and unusual.

(Re Alfie BTW, I think it's a gorgeous name but very babyish. You could at least name him Alfred, call him Alfie from Day 1 but if he grows up to be a judge he will have a name with a bit of gravitas.)

I want to know which Tracy glastocat was!

I was Little Tracy.

Not so little now though!

Aw go on poppity!

A lucky escape there, glastocat. Poor Smelly Tracy.

Def. Rubeh and Alfeh as they're all pronounced round here.

Everyone called my Grandad Harry and there was nothing "hideous" about him I suppose the thing with Henry is "Horrid Henry"....heard that a few times from kids, but there will always be something. My Grandad was actually called James Henry......my DS is named after him (James) even though everyone always called him Harry lol. DS's middle name is Eadric, that's unusal but we're not pompus . DH is a History teacher so that was one of the mild ones he came up with

and lol at puffling......I am guessing you are in the North west?

I only knew one Jack growing up; a lad the same age as my brother, he was witty, funny, cute and the cleverest person I knew (he did end up going to Oxford.) I always had Jack (John on the BC) as my favourite boys name, till the millennium explosion of Jacks and Jakes. I was gutted!
I think there are too many names being used now for any one to be singled out- rather that a whole raft of 'chavvy' sounding names are going to be looked down on.
Double-barrelling any first name with -Mae, -Leigh, -Jade etc. Changing the spelling so your precious snowflake will be correcting people their whole life until they change it to the normal spelling themselves.
Or just making shit up- I know someone with a Raidon and a Kitana. I thought they were a noble gas and a samurai sword...