Different names popular in different regions?

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My children's friends:

Sean
Francesca
Hannah
Rachel
Lucy
Kieran
Liam
Anya
Thomas
David
James
Daniel
Grace
Kalan
Aiden
Ethan
Alexander
Katie

Where do we live?

My friends children are called:

Jade
Sophie
Sasha
Owen
Philip
Shannon
Kai

.... not many of my friends actually have children yet!

are you from ireland

Me LL? Nope, but 3 groups of friends are Catholic (and irish background).

the most common name I found teaching in Basildon Essex - Kayleigh!!

In dd1's kindy class we have a Henry, Tim, hayden, Tiffany and Jordan... at playgroup - Luke, Alana, Arran, Ben, Amy, Zoe, Lara, Anneka, Xander.

No Kylies or Bruces.. although I did hear a little girl being called Kylie the other day - seemed unusual.

I was going to be a kylie when I was born so glad my mum didn't call me that now . I do think its a pretty name though.

Mia Finn Tamzin Jack Samuel Edward Alexander Janacek Jerreh Oliver Matilda Ruby Lucy Joe Hendrikje Charlotte Awni Thomas Madeleine Tess Isabel Lewis Rosario Grace Maisie Rose Rosie Joseph Joshua Aisling Daria Conall Ben Maral

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East Angular!

was going to call dd Noah (if a boy!)...hadn't realised it is so popular.

noah is lovely name? any fav names anyone

drusilla? sounds very made up! my friends 6 month old is called Clejay. Her mum is Cleo and her dad is Jay.... anyone else done this with their children?

sorry no offence beetroot!

laughinglil we have friends with an 18mth old called Eb (E for mums name and B for dads name.
Made up names seem quite popular here, but of the mainstream ones I think the most popular at the moment going on the children I know
Jayden
Jacob
Zoe
Sophie
We are in NZ

Ebbe is a lovely name. there is St Ebbe's St in Oxford, pronounced Eb.

lol at cow names

the new reception girls at dd1s school are called

I kid you not:

jasmine
rosie
blossom
daisy

Noah makes me think of old bearded gent in an ark

My mum heard a girl in the park calling Albert and was most surprised to see a toddler- she was expecting an old man with enormous ears (my grandpa ) She hasn't got over it yet!

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Wow, what am interesting thread. Would like more areas/postcodes though to go with the lists of names. There was a marketing thing (thing? What do I mean, a device) called Moniker where instead of mailing by postcode they did it by name, so you send your fluffy dice leaflets to people called, for example, Wayne (sorry, whatever name I choose someone will be offended).

Lockets and Pruni, sorry if the answer is already in here somewhere and I've missed it, but North London? I know one of you says village which I guess might be stretching it for Muswell Hill...

When ds was born his birth announcement was in the local paper so naturally dh bought a few copies (6 actually ! he was so proud!)

We were very relieved to see the one other baby boy birth announcement. The chav parents (and the mother was in the maternity unit at the same time as me so I confidently use the description quite accurately) had named him "Thai".

Why so relieved ? We heard them discussing it (loudly and at length)in hospital and were worried that either mum or dad's surname might be Curry or Green-Curry as unmarried parents often hyphenate their combined surnames in these parts.

I still felt it was a little cruel though, particularly as they couldn't agree on how to spell it and were writing down all sorts of possible spellings.

(Apologies to anyone with a ds or dd called Thai)

Katef - I could not resist the Christmas theme (it must have been all the mince pies I ate in late pregnancy) and did call dd Holly. Also, my Dad was a teacher in Zambia and had 3 "Teapots" in his class, and too many called "Fly" to count! I was born in Zambia, and am very glad my parents didn't name me after the first thing my Mum saw!