Annual survey of boys and girls names

[Gromit]

// Some 39 babies were given the name Fenton, the name of a runaway dog which featured in a viral Youtube clip late last year.
The mini surge took the name up more than 200 places in the rankings from 996 to 781. //

Other high movers include Jensen (as in Button) and characters from the Twight films (Bella and Jacob I think).

Any other recent additions you have heard of?

[anotheoldgit]

News? now come on Gromit don't you think this thread would be more at home in ChatterBank?

[jno]

the Times runs a survey of popular names every year and is still a newspaper, I think.

Maybe there will be lots of little boys named Mo next year, and lots of lilttle girls named Farah (like Fawcett-Major).

[LoftyLottie]

Already lots of little boys called Mo(hammed) jno!! I wonder if people will realise that this is what Mo is short for when they name their sons!!!

[Gromit]

AOG. Here is a Daily Mail link to help convince you it is News.

http://www.dailymail....pular-baby-names.html

[sandyRoe]

Bella features prominently in that story. Could that be a belated tribute to Bella Emberg?

[jake-the-peg]

No big surge in "Boris" then?

[sandyRoe]

Though I'd bet there'll be a surge in Sebastians next may

[woofgang]

When boys start being called Christian then i will worry......

[jno]

are there many Usains about? Or is it just a sneaky form of Hussein?

[Gromit]

Jno

Possibly. It is allegedly from arabic.

http://www.babynology...eaning-usain-m84.html

[andy-hughes]

Sadly, there are girls about to hit high scool saddled with being called Fallon, after the Dynasty character, although I don't think Alexis was that hip.

I always recount the time my youngest was in hospital, and I was listening to the mother of the little one in the next bed - this was twenty-three years ago.

She told her companion - "i wanted the christen her Dallas Ewing but the vicar refused, so i named her Joan Rachel instead, so I can call her JR ..."

Scary isn't it!

[excelsior-1]

i wonder if anyone will have the idea of calling their child 'wenlock'

[sunny-dave]

'Stratford', surely excel

[tenrec]

or Stoke Mandy

[andy-hughes]

There was a footballer called Mark Stein and headlines were made when a local couple named their little boy Stein after the Stoke player.

The following season Stoke sold him!

[EcclesCake]

My name will never appear in a survey of popular names. I've never met another me in human form but a dog and a horse do share my name :-)

[albaqwerty]

Eccles, that prompts an idea for a thread!!!
Go for it girl :-D

[tenrec]

Shergar?

[sunny-dave]

Aha - eccles exposed as "Shergar Cake"

[tenrec]

Incidentally, my name is the same as 3 people in the world and one World War II minesweeper!