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Is your first name going out of Fashion?

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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

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Carmen

entropi

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Ha, here is a trivial pursuit thing re names for ya....

There is a girl's name. And if anyone knows a girl/woman with this name you can near enough guarantee their DOB to within two or three years.

It begins with a C.

Anyone have a guess?

(it's not recent, but not too distant past either, maybe a Mammy's name??)

Caoimhe? I quite like that name.

Contessa Raven

Larianne wrote: »

Your name is Phyllis?

No but close! Starts with 'Phil'!

My name is actually in the downloadable spreadsheet in the article, just not in the drop down menu for the most popular names. Took me a while to notice!

Contessa Raven

xper wrote: »

Found a couple of names that have only appeared in the last couple of years:
11 "Arya"s have joined us - clearly Game of Thrones fans.
I can't explain the 5 "TJ"s though!

I always wanted to call my daughter Arya. I read it in a book when I was in my early teens (not the GoT books though) and I fell in love with it. I'd never heard it before and for years I never heard or read it again. I don't think I'd call my child that now though. Ever since GoT I've noticed it being used a lot and now it's no longer interesting. To me anyway!

Venus In Furs

It was never ever in fashion. It's an old lady name - I was named after my nana!

ballsymchugh

what sort of a name is jaxon??

also, few people called flynn registered in 2012.... when did breaking bad really take off here?

[Deleted User]

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Ha, here is a trivial pursuit thing re names for ya....

There is a girl's name. And if anyone knows a girl/woman with this name you can near enough guarantee their DOB to within two or three years.

It begins with a C.

Anyone have a guess?

(it's not recent, but not too distant past either, maybe a Mammy's name??)

Cliona?
Charlotte?
Caoimhe?
Cait?
Caitlyn?
Claudia?
Cathy?
Colletee?

C'monnn!

Ihatecuddles

I had a son in 2010, it says there was nobody born with his name that year. Strange!

SadieSue

Caoilinn? Ceibhfhionn? Nah bet its Cleena

Contessa Raven

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

I had a son in 2010, it says there was nobody born with his name that year. Strange!

If there were 3 or less children registered with any given name, its not put on the chart. Only if 4 or more are registered with the same name, is a record made. Strange but it's there somewhere in the article.

FueledbyCoffee

Cora
Concepta
Clara
Cindy

KerranJast

I've only ever met 1 other Aodh and now it looks like there could be a few more of us

No more acceptance of terrible pronunciation of our incredibly simple to pronounce name.

Spanish Eyes

OK OK, I'll kind of take you out of your misery.

Lia Lia got it in post 128, but spelled it incorrectly.

Keep going!!

r93kaey5p2izun

Venus In Furs wrote: »

It was never ever in fashion. It's an old lady name - I was named after my nana!

Same!

Hate my name. Though according to that list it's still of low popularity but possibly starting to make a comeback. I have noticed it turning up a couple of times on US tv and films recently too.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Colette.

My name was never in fashion I don't think. I don't know any other people that's got my full first name.

Spanish Eyes

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Colette.

My name was never in fashion I don't think. I don't know any other people that's got my full first name.

Yes, it's Colette.

If you know anyone called this, there is a good chance they were born in the mid fifties. A member of my family is one and was born in 1957. Anyone I came across with that name was of a similar age.

It must have been high fashion back in the day!

shalalala

Only 47 last year... wow I feel so uncool right now

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I know one Colette and she was born in 1989

Corruptedmorals

Still getting 40+ registrations every year in and around, but it went into such decline after the 60's that they mentioned it in the article...Catherine, not Mary.

Gmol

Mink wrote: »

Neither my name nor my sister's is on that list. Only met one other person with my name and never heard of anyone with my sisters name, and mine is a name from a song back in the 50's and her name was in the title of a movie a few years back.

Dallas?

[Deleted User]

Sorry for about the incorrect spelling! I was a bit tipsy. Nice name!

Edit: How on earth did I think that was the correct spelling.

Spanish Eyes

Lia_lia wrote: »

Sorry for about the incorrect spelling! I was a bit tipsy. Nice name!

Edit: How on earth did I think that was the correct spelling.

Yes I like the name Colette too. Reminds me of France and the writer Colette. Although Colette was her surname!

It has gone right out of fashion now though, but I think it's Chic!

[Deleted User]

Scrotes like to give their kids surnames as first names nowadays.

Examples include Harrison, Brady, Mason, Taylor, Lennon.
Please stop reproducing.

KatW4

I hate my name. It's such a granny name. No one ever had the same name as me but it's pretty common in the older generations.

23 poor children were given that name in 2013.

Darkglasses

Peaked in 2009 with 225 and been gradually declining since.

Always particularly liked my name, despite being fairly common.

Venus In Furs

Donovan Old-fashioned Tack wrote: »

Same!

Hate my name. Though according to that list it's still of low popularity but possibly starting to make a comeback.

Yeh seems to be the case with mine too.

KatW4 wrote: »

I hate my name. It's such a granny name. No one ever had the same name as me but it's pretty common in the older generations.

23 poor children were given that name in 2013.

Kathleen? You can shorten it to Kathy or Kath, which are lovely though IMO.

Inventive User Name

Three boys were named 'Baby' in 2004!:eek:

osarusan

11 kids called AJ in 2012-13.

Thank you Sopranos.

osarusan

120 kids called Alfie.

Jaysus.

Actually, scrolling through that would probably put me in an awfully bad mood.

osarusan

8 Fletchers.

15 Shreyas.

16 Skylers.

34 Harpers.

Ok, time to stop.