Repeats in my 9yr olds classes in school...Catherine/Katherine, which go by Kate, Katie & Winnie (my DD--lol). Weirdly enough there are 2 Mallorys. Of course there are Jacks, Alexandras & Sophias too.
In my 7yr olds class the only repeat I know of is Catherine/Katherine & one actually left. So they are referred to as "old Catherine" and "new Catherine"
In my 4yr olds class I can't think of any except Caroline...but I can barely name 5 students period. Lol
Post by SallySparrow on Feb 15, 2014 15:58:46 GMT -5
DD is an Amelia. I've worked with kids forever and only knew one young Amelia. Now I'm worried it's going to be super popular. I was born In the 80's and have a clearly 80's name. I was hoping to avoid that for her. Boo.
I do hear a lot of Harper, Hadley, Eleanor, Emery, Sophia, and Isabelle around here. We have a lot of Aidan/Braydon, Grayson, Lucas boys around. And William.
Post by schrodinger on Feb 15, 2014 16:13:30 GMT -5
"K" names are strangely popular among girls here. Kailey, Kylie, Kalia, Kahlea, Kallie. Also popular are "son" names for girls and boys. Grayson, Gracyn, Mason, Jackson, Jaxon.
Post by curbsideprophet on Feb 15, 2014 17:14:13 GMT -5
I am happy to see no one has mentioned DDs name so far. Although this does confirm my suspicions that Jack/Jackson is probably too popular for my taste for this LO.
DD does have an Ava in her class at daycare. They only names that are really close to repeating are Colin and Collins (girl).
Post by imojoebunny on Feb 15, 2014 17:23:23 GMT -5
Amelia is very common in my kids classes, which is funny because it is my moms name, and I only met two growing up, and only random older women. Olivia and Sofia and also very common. I know a dozen Sofia's. My son doesn't have any duplicates of any names yet in his classes.
Post by nancybotwin on Feb 15, 2014 19:25:07 GMT -5
In DDs class there are two Zoe/Zoeys and two Mayas. Otherwise a lot of the trendy names mentioned on here aren't around a lot (there is one Ava and one Ella but there are lots of unique names too, like Sienna, Abby and Spencer).
I am surprised to see Jack on so many people's lists. My son is the only one I have met in person. There is a Jackson in his class but he goes by his full name. I guess my Jack can always go by his full name, John, if it gets more popular in his schools. He goes by his nickname because John is a family name so it's easier to keep him distinct from his dad and his dad had a million Johns in his classes so we thought Jack would be less popular, apparently everyone else thought so too!
Liam Jack/Jackson Emma Ava Ella/Ellie/Eloise Addie/Addison Tess/Tessa (top of our list, but I'm hearing it left and right now) William Henry Jayden, etc. Audrey/Aubrey Riley Wyatt Peyton Maddox Liam Harper Charlotte Avery
I am happy to see no one has mentioned DDs name so far. Although this does confirm my suspicions that Jack/Jackson is probably too popular for my taste for this LO.
DD does have an Ava in her class at daycare. They only names that are really close to repeating are Colin and Collins (girl).
I was just going to post that I was happy not to see DS's name so far too. And then I read the rest of your post and you said Colin. Damn. lol
There were 3 Tyler's in B's music class the other week. I also know a lot of Masons.
And every single girl I know that's been born in the last year has Mia/Mya/Maya as a first or middle name.
ETA: This post makes me sad for my own Benjamin. I knew his name wasn't unpopular, but I dont know any others... I have an uber-popular name and sometimes it's annoying!