[Closed] Hello to all the Amelias and Olivers.

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]

😀

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.

We picked a lovely name for our daughter, not sure how we came about it but perhaps it was because it was the name of my best friend's big sister when I was a kid. Anyway, it wasn't a name either of us heard in our social circles at all. So we went along to the registers, and there was a chart on the wall with the most popular baby names of the year on it, and our choice was right at the top.

Still she's [i]our[/i] Sophie.

Though we'd be much cooler if my first name choice hadn't been over-ruled - I wanted to call her Minnie.

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[url= http://www.babynamespedia.com/ ]US site[/url], but fun, nevetheless.

And it's DaRen as in KaRen, not Darren - easier to spell, or so my mother tells me now. Should have changed it when I went to University 😆 .

EDIT: and an epidemic of Olivers!

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GCHQ (maybe o_O) and I have a wagging tail 😉

I have a friend who named her kid Jinx, it's pretty rare and suits her - she's the most confident 9 year old ever.

I know a Grainne.

It's pronouced Gronyur

Weirder than weird

Me too!
She doesn't work in a factory in Hertfordshire does she?

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.

Mahamuda is the female version of Mohammed.

One of the problems with these surveys is they count all the spelling of Mohammad together but don't take account of many traditional UK/ European names as also being different spellings of the same name.

For instance Jack, John, Ian, Iain, Evan, Shawn, Sean, Eoin, Ifan, Ivan, Jean, Juan, Hans, Yann, Johan, Giovanni, Gino, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Jane, Jayne, Janet, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeane, Jeanne, Jeannie, Hanna, Ivana, Sinead, Seona, Siobhan, Sian are all different spellings of the same name - ?????????? - which is hebrew for 'God is Gracious'

And while Gods might be imaginary (although that very much depends on what you understand the word God to mean) Mohammad was very definitely a real living, breathing, walking, talking bloke. In no sense imaginary and in no sense imagined to be anything other than long dead by even his most devout followers.

There's a difference between names with a common root and names with different spellings.

Sinéad is sufficiently different from John to be considered a different name. Whereas Mohammed and Muhammad are clearly different spellings of the same name. Now if we were talking Jon vs John, they may be counted together (perhaps they are, I dunno). Or Sophie and Sofie, etc etc. I'm happy for common sense to prevail and for Janice to appear in the girls' list and Ivan to appear in the boys'.

We have mates whose surname begins with'E' who were thinking of calling their kid Aoife.

At school I was one of many Michaels and my wife was one of many Sarahs, and now our eldest is one of many Ellies.

Hercules and Apollo where they not the Dobermans from magnum pi.

Whilst backpacking in Rome along time ago I met an American called CJ,
Stood for Charles junior, his dad was Charles senior and his younger brother was also called Charles but was known in the family by his second name which escapes me.

I understood Charles senior and junior but why would you call both your children charles.

He said his dad was an accountant , he was studying to be an accountant and his brother was studying law and his parents decided Charles was a good trustworthy name for business.

I have never met another man with my name but have met a few women.

My sister thought that gabriel would be a unique name for her son. I hated to point out that two of my friends had already had that idea.

Which meant she tried even harder for her second. He is still the only otis I know.

Have recently acquired an Isaiah for a nephew, I think it sounds like one of the dingles,
No one agrees.