what is the most over-rated name in your opinion?

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Yes, I think you must be right Lulu. There seem to be lots of Caitlans where I'm from but I have moved temporarily to London and I haven't met any here (yet) although I haven't come into contact with as many children as I do back home.

Every other kid here in the US is Ava, Jake, Emma/Emily, or something ending in -son or -den/don.

No, there aren't tons of Olives or anything (I mentioned that name earlier) but I have a few friends who really like it. And it's a sleb baby isn't? Isla Fisher's. I just don't get the appeal of that name.

is Ava said Ave-ah? or Ahv-ah?

I thought it was Ay-va.

What Crackfox said. You can't go anywhere without hearing "Ava Grace (or occasionally Ava Marie), get back here right now!"

And then there's Jayden, Kaiden, Brodyn, Landon, Madison and Addison.

Edward

Just because there are so many and I seem to be the only one who has noticed...

Please make it stop!

And yes, there are so many nicknames... but everyone uses the same ones!

Breathe.

I like Edward. I don't think I know any...

As an aside, I think the OP is being remarkably sanguine and good-humoured ...

It's the drugs...

we're the same froggie, am fed up telling people that you might be triping over Isabella's down in the south but DD1 is the only one we know of and she was named after my beloved great aunt

Imarriedafrog no, not like Simba, I would think that is another pet name.

Our names are just proper names, that's all. Nothing wrong with that!

But it does mystify me when something as big as Harry Potter comes along and everyone gets sucked in and actually uses the names from it. Is it really that hard to just decide to think of something else?

not sure all the Harrys are after Harry Potter...? I could be wrong!

Grace or Gracie .. boring!

Quite like Albus actually...but not Albus Severus. Ghastly!

Sophie and Emma have been mentioned a few times.

I think Megan is more overrated than these two and know only one other Sophie around these parts. No Emma's apart from my own. Megans' are everywhere! they're taking over I tell you ;)Still like the name though.

Ahh overrated is the wrong word. I mean highly used.

Most Megans I know are lurvely, fantastic people. Or maybe just me... I love my name!

There are a lot of Megans in the US around my age (28) but not too many littl'uns.

the name damien makes me think of the omen ! lol , its quite popular in glasgow just now .

SwanandDuck- well said (page 6) This was getting ridicuous.

I won't name names because I don't want to upset anyone, but I don't like unusual names chosen by middle class parents to show how original and intelligent and posh they are, but unfortunately shout 'pretentious' at everyone else!

I really don't understand why people are so fragile and precious about the names that they themselves have chosen for their DC's. Is it a lack of self esteem?
I'm sure that a lot of people don't like the names I've chosen for my DDs. I seriously don't give a fuck. In fact a couple of my friends have said that they don't like the name Lucia (my DD2's name). So what? I don't like fish, I'm damn sure that people who do like it, don't take offence when I refuse to eat it. It's personal taste FFS!

Well said, Gunther. I think some people just like to be offended, and should have more courage in their convictions!

In defence of this thread, if you were pg and browsing these threads and a name you had in mind was mentioned repeatedly as being very popular or chavvy, you may well reconsider. You wouldn't HAVE to, because you should choose what you like, but I wish someone had told my mum when she was pg in the 70s that my name was waaay overused, because although I like it, it was so common in school that I stopped hearing it as pretty and just thought of it as boring and felt like one of many.