Are you really calling your babies Oliver?

I found a few of those names to be strange, particularly the second- and third- last ones on the male list. I always thought it was spelt 8====D

shadow boxer said :

At least Josh has finally gone, I swear every boy at my kids school is named Josh.

Funny you say that: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1211719/Why-teachers-single-pupils-called-Callum-Chelsea-Connor-Jack-troublemakers.html

I was sure there was an Australian study done but I can’t find it now 😉

Yes really. I reckon anyone with young kids knows a million Olivers – and just as many Olivias. Personally I think Oliver is a bit cutesy but glad to see Jordan, Jayden, Cooper and other usual suspects are absent from the list.

enrique said :

It’s funny over the past few years it has been a common occurrence to see girls names in the top 10 end in the sound ‘ee’

e.g. Emily, Sophie, Lily, Ruby, Chloe

Generally, men’s names in English tend to end in a hard, closed sound, whereas girls are more likely to end in an open vowel sound; only Charlotte and Grace are ‘enclosed’ on the list.

Gender is a funny thing.

Richard Hammond called the 1963 Opel Kadett he rescued from Botswana Oliver, maybe there are more Top Gear fans out there than I thought.

qbngeek said :

They spelt them wrong.

The boys name actually look like this after you add a bit of a bogan-remix:
1 Olyvyr
2 Wyliaym
3 Locklayn
4 Jack
5 Aliyxaendr
6 Eythan
7 James
=8 Leeaym
=8 Tommas
10 Lookus

Its also good to see I did actually choose uncommon names and still managed to spell them the traditional way.

Blimey, the bogans have all gone Latin and Welsh.

I notice though that the bogans are hanging on by a thread with the continued use of ‘Jack’ … a diminutive of ‘John’. On the strength of that I’ll wager there’s a fair swag of ‘Jacks’ out there with double-barrel surnames too – with their parents too bogan to understand that’s what the ‘middle’ name can be used for.

It’s interesting that Oliver and Olivia are both in their respective lists. Olivia seems somehow less old fashioned; perhaps because there was no Olivia Twist?

My name used to be uncommon

What? Holden?

Touche!

At least Josh has finally gone, I swear every boy at my kids school is named Josh.

It’s funny over the past few years it has been a common occurrence to see girls names in the top 10 end in the sound ‘ee’

e.g. Emily, Sophie, Lily, Ruby, Chloe

In the 80s all the boys seemed to get named Andrew, and growing up I was lucky to see my name spelt correctly (not a weird spelling by the by) but now it is available on cups key rings etc and I don’t see the variants I saw growing up.

My name used to be uncommon. It’s not Oliver by the way, but I still look around whenever I hear someone scream at their offspring in the mall, or wherever, thinking “what have I done now”, haha.

They spelt them wrong.

The boys name actually look like this after you add a bit of a bogan-remix:
1 Olyvyr
2 Wyliaym
3 Locklayn
4 Jack
5 Aliyxaendr
6 Eythan
7 James
=8 Leeaym
=8 Tommas
10 Lookus

Its also good to see I did actually choose uncommon names and still managed to spell them the traditional way.