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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?
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?
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Funnily enough, in my primary school class of 24 children, we had three DereksDerek 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
I assume 1963 was a good year for that name
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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.
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.
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Christ, I thought you were much younger than that.Marc Meakin wrote:Funnily enough, in my primary school class of 24 children, we had three DereksDerek 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
I assume 1963 was a good year for that name
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.
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Chris Corby seems like a great bloke. He could call me C4Ctosspot and I'd probably still respond.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.
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Fact.Derek Hazell wrote:Chris Corby seems like a great bloke.
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Well, at least you both refrained from saying "he already does"!Jon Corby wrote:with violence?Derek Hazell wrote:He could call me C4Ctosspot and I'd probably still respond.
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You call yourself Ms Matt Morrison?Matt Morrison wrote:I do quite like my name. The alliteration of Ms is nice.
Haha. Your initials look like Bart Simpson's hair.And my middle name is William which gives the rather enjoyable acronym of MWM.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI9CYvz9 ... re=relatedMatt 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.
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I wonder how different that list is from those in the 80s? I hardly know anyone with any of those names.
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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.)
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Kai is growing in popularity, there are 3 Kais at my football club.
And it isn't even listed in ODE2r's name appendix
And it isn't even listed in ODE2r's name appendix
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I played rugby with a Kai, you're the only other one I've heard of.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
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My name isn't even on there . But OWEN is.
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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.
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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!
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So it turns out that maybe this wasn't an error after all...Kieran Child wrote:THE resource for baby names: this.
Check the name after 'esperanza'.
Don't think I'll ever meet anyone called that
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Amusing read - but spotted a major omission; Frank Zappa's daughter..'Moon Unit'Charlie Reams wrote:So it turns out that maybe this wasn't an error after all...Kieran Child wrote:THE resource for baby names: this.
Check the name after 'esperanza'.
Don't think I'll ever meet anyone called that
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Is "named for" the posh way of saying "named after", or is it just the American equivalent?
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If only it were some kind of encyclopaedia that everyone could edit.Sue Sanders wrote: Amusing read - but spotted a major omission; Frank Zappa's daughter..'Moon Unit'
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It's the American equivalent.Derek Hazell wrote:Is "named for" the posh way of saying "named after", or is it just the American equivalent?
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"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"?
She started accusing me of spying on her and her family, and would barely talk to me anymore!"
Was the sister called "Chelsea Hotel"?
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Or Halle Lewyer?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"?
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Bloody hell, I can't get the cocking quotes thing sussed on here. I'm hardly going to start dabbling in Wikipedia stuff!!!Charlie Reams wrote:If only it were some kind of encyclopaedia that everyone could edit.Sue Sanders wrote: Amusing read - but spotted a major omission; Frank Zappa's daughter..'Moon Unit'
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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".Ian Volante wrote:I played rugby with a Kai, you're the only other one I've heard of.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
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Yeh, apparently kai is Hawaiian for the sea, Swedish for chicken, food in New Zealand and a Japanese breed of dog. Mm.Derek Hazell wrote: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".Ian Volante wrote:I played rugby with a Kai, you're the only other one I've heard of.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
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The only other Kai I have heard of is Kai Winding, the Danish trombone player (damn goods he was too.)
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An item on the news tells me that footballer Wayne Rooney now has a child who will be called Kai.
Sorry Kai.
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Bad luck Kai. There will probably be thousands of little Kais now!!!
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Yes, an unfortunate side effect. Apparently it is number 68 for now on the most popular boys' names list.Karen Pearson wrote:Bad luck Kai. There will probably be thousands of little Kais now!!!
Oe good thing about having a name like mine is it would never suffer the "football effect" of somebody "cool" bringing it into fashion.
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Can I call you Kaihuahua, then?Kai Laddiman wrote:... a Japanese breed of dog.