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The top names of last year have just been announced.

The boys' list was Jack, Oliver, Thomas, Harry, Joshua, Alfie, Charlie, Daniel, James and William and
The girl's list was Olivia, Ruby, Emily, Grace, Jessica, Chloe, Sophie, Lily, Amelia and Evie

So, not that many names that are shared by people on here, although we have at least one of each of the top three, and of course our one and only number 7! Plus a few derivatives of James. We have a few Matthews and Michaels here, but we're mostly quite a varied lot. It's strange how names come and go in and out of fashion. At my work there are loads of people called Simon and Sue.

I went all through school without knowing anyone else with my name, and I haven't met many people with it since either. I don't mind it too much, as I like being different, and sometimes your middle name is even worse. So what do you think of your name? Do you like, or have you just got used to it, or do you prefer to use a nickname?

Derek Hazell wrote:The top names of last year have just been announced.

The boys' list was Jack, Oliver, Thomas, Harry, Joshua, Alfie, Charlie, Daniel, James and William and
The girl's list was Olivia, Ruby, Emily, Grace, Jessica, Chloe, Sophie, Lily, Amelia and Evie

So, not that many names that are shared by people on here, although we have at least one of each of the top three, and of course our one and only number 7! Plus a few derivatives of James. We have a few Matthews and Michaels here, but we're mostly quite a varied lot. It's strange how names come and go in and out of fashion. At my work there are loads of people called Simon and Sue.

I went all through school without knowing anyone else with my name

Funnily enough, in my primary school class of 24 children, we had three Dereks
I assume 1963 was a good year for that name

I do quite like my name. The alliteration of Ms is nice. And my middle name is William which gives the rather enjoyable acronym of MWM.

My brother is Seb which remains pretty rarely used in England, and my sister is Grace, which was fairly rare too until I just saw it published on your list. It's one of those names that has a real sense of something special attached to it as a word. My sister carries it well, being pretty much the most important and wonderful thing in the world to me, I just hope with its new found popularity we don't soon see swathes of dirty young pikies pushing prams around and smoking at the age of 15 inappropriately called Grace.

Marc Meakin wrote:

Derek Hazell wrote:The top names of last year have just been announced.

The boys' list was Jack, Oliver, Thomas, Harry, Joshua, Alfie, Charlie, Daniel, James and William and
The girl's list was Olivia, Ruby, Emily, Grace, Jessica, Chloe, Sophie, Lily, Amelia and Evie

So, not that many names that are shared by people on here, although we have at least one of each of the top three, and of course our one and only number 7! Plus a few derivatives of James. We have a few Matthews and Michaels here, but we're mostly quite a varied lot. It's strange how names come and go in and out of fashion. At my work there are loads of people called Simon and Sue.

I went all through school without knowing anyone else with my name

Funnily enough, in my primary school class of 24 children, we had three Dereks
I assume 1963 was a good year for that name

Christ, I thought you were much younger than that.

My name is actually Jonathan, which is right mouthful so I've been Jon to all and sundry for as long as I can remember (I do really like not having the H.) My parents are the only ones who ever say 'Jonathan' (or Pod), it sounds weird if anyone else says it; likewise it's very weird when my parents call me (or refer to me as) Jon.

Jon Corby wrote:My parents are the only ones who ever say 'Jonathan' (or Pod), it sounds weird if anyone else says it; likewise it's very weird when my parents call me (or refer to me as) Jon.

Chris Corby seems like a great bloke. He could call me C4Ctosspot and I'd probably still respond.

Derek Hazell wrote:Chris Corby seems like a great bloke.

Fact.

Derek Hazell wrote:He could call me C4Ctosspot and I'd probably still respond.

with violence?

Jon Corby wrote:

Derek Hazell wrote:He could call me C4Ctosspot and I'd probably still respond.

with violence?

Well, at least you both refrained from saying "he already does"!

Matt Morrison wrote:I do quite like my name. The alliteration of Ms is nice.

You call yourself Ms Matt Morrison?

And my middle name is William which gives the rather enjoyable acronym of MWM.

Haha. Your initials look like Bart Simpson's hair.

Matt Morrison wrote:I just hope with its new found popularity we don't soon see swathes of dirty young pikies pushing prams around and smoking at the age of 15 inappropriately called Grace.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI9CYvz9 ... re=related

I wonder how different that list is from those in the 80s? I hardly know anyone with any of those names.

Jennifer is alright I suppose. I'm the right age for the choice of name to have been influenced by the massive success of "Love Story", though my parents deny that was behind it. (Actually, I don't think they would have chosen to name me after a character who snuffs it in her 20s. They're not that twisted... so where I got my twistedness from remains a mystery.)

Kai is growing in popularity, there are 3 Kais at my football club.

And it isn't even listed in ODE2r's name appendix

Paul was one of the most popular names when I was born but has since plummeted well down the list.

So I'm going to have an old man name like Horace or Wilbur

Kai Laddiman wrote:Kai is growing in popularity, there are 3 Kais at my football club.

And it isn't even listed in ODE2r's name appendix

I played rugby with a Kai, you're the only other one I've heard of.

10 or 15 minutes of fun:

http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager

THE resource for baby names: this.
Check the name after 'esperanza'.
Don't think I'll ever meet anyone called that

Kieran Child wrote:THE resource for baby names: this.
Check the name after 'esperanza'.
Don't think I'll ever meet anyone called that

Good grief - although "Espen" is a reasonable enough name from Norway.....

My name isn't even on there . But OWEN is.

SUSAN was the top girls name in both 1954 and 1964. I was born in 1964. There were 3 of us in my class - all of us with the middle name JANE...and one Suzanne.

I freaked a girl out when I was temping for a while. She was a fellow temp, and her name was Suzanne. One day she mentioned her sister, so I said "was she named after a Leonard Cohen song as well?".
She started accusing me of spying on her and her family, and would barely talk to me anymore!

Kieran Child wrote:THE resource for baby names: this.
Check the name after 'esperanza'.
Don't think I'll ever meet anyone called that

So it turns out that maybe this wasn't an error after all...

Charlie Reams wrote:

Kieran Child wrote:THE resource for baby names: this.
Check the name after 'esperanza'.
Don't think I'll ever meet anyone called that

So it turns out that maybe this wasn't an error after all...

Amusing read - but spotted a major omission; Frank Zappa's daughter..'Moon Unit'

Is "named for" the posh way of saying "named after", or is it just the American equivalent?

Sue Sanders wrote: Amusing read - but spotted a major omission; Frank Zappa's daughter..'Moon Unit'

If only it were some kind of encyclopaedia that everyone could edit.

Derek Hazell wrote:Is "named for" the posh way of saying "named after", or is it just the American equivalent?

It's the American equivalent.

"I freaked a girl out when I was temping for a while. She was a fellow temp, and her name was Suzanne. One day she mentioned her sister, so I said "was she named after a Leonard Cohen song as well?".
She started accusing me of spying on her and her family, and would barely talk to me anymore!"

Was the sister called "Chelsea Hotel"?

Kevin Thurlow wrote:"I freaked a girl out when I was temping for a while. She was a fellow temp, and her name was Suzanne. One day she mentioned her sister, so I said "was she named after a Leonard Cohen song as well?".
She started accusing me of spying on her and her family, and would barely talk to me anymore!"

Was the sister called "Chelsea Hotel"?

Or Halle Lewyer?

Charlie Reams wrote:

Sue Sanders wrote: Amusing read - but spotted a major omission; Frank Zappa's daughter..'Moon Unit'

If only it were some kind of encyclopaedia that everyone could edit.

Bloody hell, I can't get the cocking quotes thing sussed on here. I'm hardly going to start dabbling in Wikipedia stuff!!!

Ian Volante wrote:

Kai Laddiman wrote:Kai is growing in popularity, there are 3 Kais at my football club.

And it isn't even listed in ODE2r's name appendix

I played rugby with a Kai, you're the only other one I've heard of.

Movie beauty Jennifer Connelly's son from her relationship with photographer David Dugan is called Kai. Apparently "parents had planned on naming him Liam when he was born, but he looked so exotic they chose Kai, a Hawaiian name".

Derek Hazell wrote:

Ian Volante wrote:

Kai Laddiman wrote:Kai is growing in popularity, there are 3 Kais at my football club.

And it isn't even listed in ODE2r's name appendix

I played rugby with a Kai, you're the only other one I've heard of.

Movie beauty Jennifer Connelly's son from her relationship with photographer David Dugan is called Kai. Apparently "parents had planned on naming him Liam when he was born, but he looked so exotic they chose Kai, a Hawaiian name".

Yeh, apparently kai is Hawaiian for the sea, Swedish for chicken, food in New Zealand and a Japanese breed of dog. Mm.

The only other Kai I have heard of is Kai Winding, the Danish trombone player (damn goods he was too.)

An item on the news tells me that footballer Wayne Rooney now has a child who will be called Kai.
Sorry Kai.

Bad luck Kai. There will probably be thousands of little Kais now!!!

Karen Pearson wrote:Bad luck Kai. There will probably be thousands of little Kais now!!!

Yes, an unfortunate side effect. Apparently it is number 68 for now on the most popular boys' names list.

Oe good thing about having a name like mine is it would never suffer the "football effect" of somebody "cool" bringing it into fashion.

Kai Laddiman wrote:... a Japanese breed of dog.

Can I call you Kaihuahua, then?