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Is your first name going out of Fashion?

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  • 06-02-2015 4:32pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭


    Here's an interesting little interactive poll yokey-ma-bob from the Irish Times website where you can look up the frequency of first names given to kids in the last ten years.

    A quick check shows that we have now gotten past the bleak, bleak years of naming young wans Britney and Shakira, also the number of Rihannas have been falling since there 2007-08 peak. The name Mary appears to be in serious decline

    As for the boys, I'm truly horrified that any one would call their young fella Brooklyn or Braxton!!! The number of Johns remains relatively constant, but David is in sharp decline.


    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/is-your-name-going-out-of-fashion-1.2089357

    No Nutella's have yet been recorded in Ireland


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,648 ✭✭✭Zippie84


    Yeah it's been yonks since I've heard of anyone else called Zippie tbh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 728 ✭✭✭9bred4


    As far as I'm aware, Odhran seems to be coming into fashion! :cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    My name is not even on the list - it's never on any feckin' list (except the list of names that are never on any list)!


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    My name isn't even listed… oh well. I guess I'm the only Zohan in the village.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Other risers are Lexi, Poppy and Fiadh and Sienna, none of which made the top 500 back in 2004 but all of which are now in the top 100.

    FUCK. OFF!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 47 dante2015


    damn my name isnt there either


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Mine has always been really popular, seems to be slowly on the decline!! We picked a girls name for this baby, thought it was fairly unusual but seems to be on the rise :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,802 ✭✭✭beks101


    No, it's steadily going out of fashion.
    Hopefully by the time I'm an aul wan I'll be the only one left.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Mine was never in fashion.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Iranoutofideas


    Some amount of dreadful names on there.

    Alfred
    Archie
    Ashton
    Beau
    Bence
    Bernie
    Bentley
    Braxton
    Brayden
    Brodie

    The poor poor bastards.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 33,021 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Only three Emmas in the last 10 years? Not sure that's accurate....

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    Only three Emmas in the last 10 years? Not sure that's accurate....

    You're doing it wrong


  • Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I can't see "Mistake" anywhere. :(






    *sniff*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Annalise wtf.
    Annalise this, followed by a punch.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,142 ✭✭✭Katgurl


    I have gone from being very unusual to completely dime-a-dozen over the last decade or so.


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    My name reached the zenith of its popularity in 2011, but has since fallen by a whopping 28%.

    It's still a reasonably uncommon name, having an average annual registration rate of 175 between 2004-2013. I wouldn't like it to become too popular.


  • Registered Users Posts: 455 ✭✭Leogirl


    My name is not even on the list - it's never on any feckin' list (except the list of names that are never on any list)!


    Same here- have only met one other person with my name.


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Mine a very well known Irish name but not particularly common, I'd imagine it was more popular years and years and yeeeeaaaars ago. Not so much now, but I like it :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭Anonymagician


    When I was born my parents put a different name on my birth cert to what they call me because what they wanted to call me wasn't "appropriate" and more of a nickname. Seems like it's rising in popularity now :O


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,021 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Mine a very well known Irish name but not particularly common, I'd imagine it was more popular years and years and yeeeeaaaars ago. Not so much now, but I like it :)

    It's either Mary or Cait. Or Peig.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    It's either Mary or Cait. Or Peig.

    Or Deichtine.


  • Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Gobnait appears to have left the radar entirely, with no registrations over the ten-year period.

    There were, however, 13 girls named Jewel, three named Letitia, and 90 girls named Magdalen, which is mildly ominous. There were 71 Princesses, as against seven 'Queen's (all girls, thankfully), nine 'Tallulah's, and three lucky girls were named Success! (sans exclamation mark)

    Continuing the regal theme amongst the boys, we had 7 Kings and 61 Princes. Bible references also abounded, with and 71 'Cain's and 48 'Abel's, although we are not told how many were brothers. In the morto stakes, there were seven little boys named Armani, three named Chesney, 22 named Axel. There were 39 Divines and three Blessings. encouragingly, there were also 56 'Byron's, indicating that we really are quite a literary bunch.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    It was kinda cool for a few months back in the winter of 1992.

    Ebenezer.



  • Registered Users Posts: 28,394 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    I'm convinced the name Gobnaith originated on boards...only place I have come across it.

    My son was born in 2013 and his name isn't an option.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    I love the name Madeleine but it has connotations when you hear it, it's really sad because it's such a lovely name.


  • Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    My name has gone into steep decline it would seem


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,074 ✭✭✭✭Duke O Smiley


    I have an absolutely terrible Irish name, it isn't listed but even the English version is on a rapid decline, not that it was ever popular.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    I have an absolutely terrible Irish name, it isn't listed but even the English version is on a rapid decline, not that it was ever popular.

    Well now you've got me curious!!


  • Registered Users Posts: 18 Ara ararauna


    My name is one of the most common around, my surname on the other hand you'd be pushed to find outside my townland!

    I don't understand this thing of giving children "original" names, its not like I feel any less of an individual for having a good and honest forename


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,744 ✭✭✭raze_them_all_


    11 of my full name, 5 of the shortened, thank ****


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