[Closed] Hello to all the Amelias and Olivers.

In our NCT group there were 4 girls born (circa 2010) - 3 emilys and an amelie...

Not wanting to feel left out, our son Emily will soon see the funny side...

DrP

We seriously considered 'Isaac' as a name for Nem Jnr (now 6). Glad we didn't as they're everywhere! 🙂

It is funny how names go in and out of fashion. When I was a kid I never met anyone else with the same name. Now there are loads of kids with it and given that I never met anyone with the name previously, I can't help but respond every time it's called.

I don't think my children's names have ever featured in a Top 10 list. 😆

Interesting to see that MUHAMMAD and MOHAMMED appear in the Boys list but there doesn't appear to be any Muslim girls names in the list.

My daughters name isn't even in the top 100 🙂

My first name is Chris - I'm one of 4 in about 20 people in the office I work in, we are legion!

My first name is Chris - I'm one of 4 in about 20 people in the office I work in, we are legion!

Wait? What? So you're not called Toby?

I make childrens gifts e.g. bunting, pumpbags. When personalizing them I Like to keep up to date with the latest name list. However I'm always amazed at the weird spellings that some parents have for perfectly normal sounding names.
As always if you pick a slighty unusual name e.g Ethel, the chances are it will become popular again.

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My 6 month old niece is called Amelia.

Christ, hadn't realised how unorigninal we were naming our daughter this January, that's what happens when you let a six year help choose the name I guess 🙂

I work in engineering. There are 4 Nigels in our office. Two Malcolms.

I'm a Chris.

Just a point - why have Scotland and Northern Ireland been excluded? Discrimination, that's what it is. 😐

You don't get a lot of Cliffords these days!

My nephew is called Oliver and my niece Emily 🙂 Always wonder how much thought they put into that.

Just a point - why have Scotland and Northern Ireland been excluded? Discrimination, that's what it is.

Scotland:

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Penelope, John, Harold and Charles are lovely names.

However, surely Poppy, Jack, Harry and Charlie are more suitable for a hamster or a budgerigar?
😉

Our eldest is registered as William, but has always been and will always be Billy. Thought it was the right thing to do at the time, but now considering changing it officially, never called him William or Will, even when cross.

At least he has the choice.
He might want to be a Billy when he's older, might want to be a William, Will or Willie.

Billy is the name of a bookcase. 🙂

cinnamon_girl - Member

I don't think my children's names have ever featured in a Top 10 list

Same here. Much to the relief of Chardonnay and Mercedes. They wouldn't want to appear common

Our eldest is registered as William, but has always been and will always be Billy. Thought it was the right thing to do at the time, but now considering changing it officially, never called him William or Will, even when cross.

I was christened James, my family then promptly called me Jamie from day 1.

I really should change all my official documentation, but I really can't be bothered with the hassle.

...or I reclaim the less androgynous name, James.

...or just make a sandwich.

Same here. Much to the relief of Chardonnay and Mercedes

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I didn't know that "Ava" was a name, let alone a popular one.

"Lettuce" was quite a popular girls name in Victorian times, apparently.

Lutece, not Lettuce. Tsk.

The popularity of Mohammed would be explained by the fact that quite a lot of people are followers of that imaginary character, whereas there isn't really a female equivalent for them to idolise, so Muslim girls' names are a lot more varied.

A corruption of Letitia, I believe.

Ava is a nice name.
Nowt wrong with a nice Ava.
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I think she's been touched up.

Wait? What? So you're not called Toby?

Sorry Jamie, my surname is also a firstname (or more commonly a Dog's name).

😕

He might want to be a Billy when he's older, might want to be a William, Will or Willie

Or Will.I.Am, although that may mean expulsion from the family.

Sorry Jamie, my surname is also a firstname (or more commonly a Dog's name).

Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy?

You are! Yes you are!

I'm a bona-fide, on the birth certificate, Jamie. Lots of blokes, especially the older types, insist on calling me James, even after I correct them. Mildy irritating...

Your name is Chris Rover?

Good section in Freakonomics about naming cycles, very interesting how names fall in and out of favour.

Or Will.I.Am, although that may mean expulsion from the family.

No judge, no jury, straight to execution.

My mother is a bit of a traditionalist ( some may say a name snob). When we discovered we were having boy/girl twins we took great delight in telling her they were going to be called Wayne Sheridan and Chelsea Shivaun. Several weeks of disapprovingly pursed lips later she was immensely relieved to hear they had been named after family grandparents, James and Emily!

My Beckhamesque choices of Moab and Bali were overridden, although that's where they would have been conceived if we hadn't had to spend all that money on IVF thanks to my bike smash.......... 😕

One of my colleagues children are called Jack and Emily.
Another's is called Toby.
But then there's also Augustus, Fi and Charlie.

Good section in Freakonomics about naming cycles, very interesting how names fall in and out of favour.

Oddly, I was only listening to that the other day. Here it is for others:

Freakonomics Radio.

How Much Does Your Name Matter? (Rebroadcast)

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freakonomicsradio/~5/PuKn9ss2rp8/freakonomics_podcast073114.mp3

Rather pleased to see in the girls' list that none of my my daughter's names feature.

Rather worried that Mrs North's first name appears in the boys' list....

I've got an Oliver and an Emily.

We are dead common.

my surname is also a firstname

you people aren't even trying;

This couple called their daughters Perpetua, Clarendon and Helvetica

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I expect they wanted some Comic Sons too.

...or just make a sandwich

Or get yourself a torch and an Old English Sheepdog.

Or get yourself a torch and an Old English Sheepdog.

I do like helter skelters.

My girl is now 10 and clearly we started the Amelia trend 10 years ago, now will people stop copying us!

For those about to have kids the next trends will be Anastacia or Gabriella, twins born 12 weeks ago so in ten years time ...

I'm an Oliver, and I never met another one until I was about 15. When I was born the fact that my parents had called me that was a bit of a scandal in the village. Apparently it was a bit of an outrage that my parents had given me such an unusual and old fashioned name. How things change.

Does a top 10 dog names list exist? Bet that'll be entertaining. 😉

Bit pissed off about that list. When my eldest was born in 2005 we called her Amelia. Never heard anyone else younger than 60 called it at the time and we thought we were being different. She was named after my Gran and I thought the name was a bit too twee at the time.

I can categorically say that my name will never make it on that list. Even searching on google only comes up with me and one other worldwide.

ti_pin_man - Member

For those about to have kids the next trends will be Anastacia or Gabriella, twins born 12 weeks ago so in ten years time ...

Anastasia/Anastacia is a lovely name - if I ever meet you remind me to buy you a pint for not calling her Stacey. 🙂

Gabriella's a cracker too - you get to sing her this 'till she's old enough to beg you to stop:

I can categorically say that my name will never make it on that list. Even searching on google only comes up with me and one other worldwide.

Rumpelstiltskin?

Oliver is not my first name...

Our two kids are the only ones in their 400 strong primary school with their first names, though LittleMissMC has Amelia as a middle name after her great nan.

Oliver is not my first name...

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my cousin has 2 girls and a boy. likes to keep up the well-to-do image,
Amelia, Olivia and Charlie.

Common as muck. 😛

Christ, hadn't realised how unorigninal we were naming our daughter this January,

I don't know, seems pretty original to me, mind you, school could be pretty tough going, what with you calling her 'This January'

[i]I can categorically say that my[/i] son's [i]name will never make it on that list.[/i]

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you work at gchq don't you?

That or he's a character from a Joseph Heller book.

I expect they wanted some Comic Sons too.

Where's that monkey boom tish gif? Nicely done!

In my class of 30 at school there were 4 Andrews and an Andrea. Also 2 Neils and a Niall. (but no Neileas) It gets old tbh.

It was much the same at uni. But weirdly, we're all now in our 30s and I can't remember the last time I met a new Andrew. Are we dying out? Are we being hunted?

How do you pronounce Aoife?? ❓

So glad that we went for strong names [b]Hercules[/b] and [b]Apollo[/b] .

([i]That's Herc and Pol to thier mates[/i])

Seem to be a lot of Sam's arround at the moment, irritating as for most of my life I've not met another one! I guess fireman Sam killed it.

However, surely Poppy, Jack, Harry and Charlie are more suitable for a hamster or a budgerigar?

We've got a Hercules that works for us sometimes, he looks about 8 stone. Got to be careful with a name like that. He tries to get people to call him Eric and to be fair, he is totally an Eric but no. As soon as you discover he's a Hercules, it's an irresistable force.

How about Ebola as a girl's name?

What...? Oh.

Are we dying out? Are we being hunted?

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globalti - Member

How about Ebola as a girl's name?

Sensemilia's nice for a girl.
Boddington for a boy.

You'll never meet another.....

I don't believe that Scottish top names - all our kids mates at school are Murdo, Fraser, Archie, Angus, Finlay Hamish and Ruraidh/Rory...

Our kids are on that list, but a decade previously. Ahead of the fashion, clearly. 8)

Lutece, not Lettuce. Tsk.

That lass on Britain's Got Talent who fiddled with herself on stage was called Lettice.

https://twitter.com/Letticemusic

How do you pronounce Aoife??

It's vaguely similar to "Eva". Mate of mine's anklebiter is called Aoife.

Sensemilia's nice for a girl.

I read that as 'Semolina' for a moment.

[sighs]

I'm also Amelia, and I'm going with my mum's text to me this morning which said:

Knew you'd popular eventually

Thanks mum 😆 🙄

I'd like to say that I've always had a bit of a love/hate with it. It was unusual enough for lots of people to comment on. It did make me feel like some Victorian Dramatic dying heroine/ or large plant that won't survive a harsh winter.

Now it turns out, I'm just common.

Perfect end to my week

😆

Perfect end to my week

You are our generations Sharon/Tracey.

well, thanks....good to know. 😆

Sorry, Emsz. I would like to talk to you, but your a bit too common now.

*wanders off muttering about who let the riffraff in here*

riffraff?!?!?

[sniffs pits]

yeah fair enough 😆

anyway mr Jammy, err that's not exactly a rarity is it?

Jamie = 68th.

So I can only assume that makes me...erm....68% less common than yoo! 😛

go away, I haven't got time for your nonsense, I've got much more importants and grown up things to do than debate with you about how, because of me, the name Amelia is the best, and how Jamie (because of you) is really unpopular.

stop bothering me now

Aoife is not quite "Eva" (considering that a couple we know insist on "Eva" being pronounced similarly to "Ever"...it's a bloody minefield these days with popular names with multiple pronunciations!). It is an "ee" sound to begin, with a sound somewhere between a "fe" and an "fa" on the end, with the emphasis on the "ee". Gaelic names as a rule are a bloody nightmare...speaking from experience.

I've got much more importants and grown up things to do

Those loom bands won't *insert whatever loom bands do here* themselves.

I know a Grainne.

It's pronouced Gronyur

Weirder than weird 🙄

which reminds me, I need to do a MLP one later

Boy1's name has now become more popular in recent years. We were given very raised eyebrows when he was a baby, but at the time, 16 years ago, it was very unusual. Boy2 doesn't and hasn't appeared in the lists. Probably would if if it was just the Welsh names though.

I'm another Andrew. Around my age group it was quite popular, at one point there were 3 of us at collage together, bit I think it was a name of a particular time. I've been known by my nickname longer than by Andrew, or variations of it.