Baby names

I also love the name Bliss for a girl. My brother and his wife are about to have their third child and are going to call her Sabrina. I'm liking that a lot as well.

If any kids I have with The Bloke get his surname (Holland) it will rule out some of my favourite names, eg. Molly, Lauren.

Don't call him Michael Holland, Archel. I already know three.

Associated? He'd already be related.

And 'Thurston'? Yuk. I like 'Glass'.

Or is all this 'kids with stupid names get bullied' thing a myth?

Thurston is the one I was least sure about after Tyler.

Austin is a good name.

Ethan, Laurence, Stella, Lily.

Abaddon/Abaddona, Abdia, Abriel, Acheliah, Adirael, Adirah, Adonael, Adriel, Aladiah, Alaliyah, Alphariza, Anael, Atatiyah, Azaziel, Azrael, Baruch, Bathor, Beatiel, Beleth, Cael, Caila, Charciel, Chasmodai, Daeva, Dagon, Dai, Darquiel, Dredekea, Donquel, Exousia, Geviriyah, Gurson, Haim, Haziel, Jetrel, Kalmiya, Kasdaya, Levanah, Mara, Mikail, Mithra, Nehinah, Purusha Rathanael, Rochel, Samhiel, Sar, Shekinah, Sisera, Sorath, Theodonias, Tychagara, Urzla, Varuna, Venibbeth, Xaphon, Zephon, Wynter Grace, Wisteria, Lycia Moon Severina, Shattenjagar, Wennesdae Krisstanamus Zoey Arianna, Winter Agony, Ashe, Izabella, Meesha, Damieon, Ezabel Eyre, Talon Malachai Trueblood, Morrissey Willow, Stormy Dawn, Shannara Rain, Akaysha Sisera, Katarynah Starr, Twilight Epiphany Moonshadow, Layla Rhiannon, Bliss, Darcia, Cleopatra Napeta Gaea Blackthorn, Chloé Miréille, Isabella Winter Grae, Twilight, Chaos, Dawn, Damien, Mercy, Angel, Ophelia, Carmilla, Lillith, Winter, Whisper, Morticia, Akasha, Enil, Magenta, Lucifer, Gabrielle, Ash, Calamity, Chalice, Cinder, Diamanda, Dementia, Eleanore, Elegia, Entropy, Eternity, Hiver, January, Lorelei, Lycia, Lucretia, Malificent, Misericordia, Moon, Moonlight, Mystery, Porcelain, Rain, Rasputina, Raven, Rubella, Sangria, Severina, Siouxsie, Suspiria, Theda, Twilight, Vervain, Willow, Bela, Cloven, Dante, Demian, Draven, Eldritch, Forrest, Gnash, Grendel, Hades, Hamlet, Ragnor, Satan, Valhalla, Victor, Wolf, Broken, Chapel, Charnel, Cloud, Coal, December, Drear, Ember, Envy, Fade, Fallen, Gethsemene, Ghost, Grey, Hallow, Hindley, Hostile, Jinx, Lament, London, Lost, Kindred, Malaise, Malice, Midnight, Mourn, Night, Nightshade, Nothing, October, Pagan, Pallor, Phoenix, Prayer, Salem, Shadow, Sigh, Silence, Solemn, Solitaire, Somber, Sorrow, Storm, Sullen, Velvet, Morgoth, Elvira, Angelique, Bathory, Erzsabet, Valan, Dakhanavar, Lecroix, Zachary Lucius Sexton, Vlad, Cohen, Dario, Lucio, Byron, Antonin, Nivek, Voltaire, Poe, Aleister, Lovecraft, Wednesday, Poppy, Anais, Xena, Fairuza, Winona, Exene, Pola, Acacia, Aconite, Calla, Calyx, Cassandra, Clove, Fleur, Foxglove, Jacaranda, Wolfbane, Zinnia, Absinthe, Alabaster, Amethyst, Autumn, Chartreuse, Chrysalis, Cyan, Jade, Kestral, Kohl, Obsidian, Ocean, Onyx, Sapphire, Silver, Star, Venom, Abilard, Beowulf, Blade, Estragon, Fortinbras, Lestat, Luthien, Zilah, Vittorio, Yseult, Misery, Balthazar, Nefertiti, Anastasia, Deoria, Ryazan, Elyria, Vervain, Jardeau Blue, Zarah, Krysania, Azra Medea, Blixa, Vega, Shiloh, Nova, Mourn, Mime, Xerxes, Ziven.

and Wyndham.

1) A hippy like you should spell it Elanor & ,p>ii) Are you really sure about EleanOR DastoOR?

Most of your boys names have ROCK connotations as well as car ones. And TV ones.

except for Maurice, which is a poof's name.

Boys: Bolton, Tarleton, Galahad, Ethelred

But I am keen to get in family names, as there are some good ones in my family. I like Langley, and Forrest, and Dario, but they'll just be middle names, I guess.

This sounds stupid but "Meg" is good for a guy........if the kid has the right face, it sounds tough when people use it.....when vocalized instead of read it sounds like a small weapon, trust me.

Nick, try Hector, Bally, Duc, Tran, Truong, Inderpaul, Jamal.

ASIATIC Asians are pretty cool. Only half of them can handle booze but they all have perfect toes. Some of the older Chinese people can be really mean when you’re just asking a simple question but that’s just because they are a more confrontational culture. Like the Jews or the French they are just arguing and you shouldn’t take it personal. The Chinese refer to white people (Americans mostly) as “fat and sentimental,” which is basically true. Japanese people are basically the best race. The women are babes and the men are incredibly smart. Want a computer invented? Ask a Japanese guy. Want to see a babe? Ask a Japanese lady.

Koreans are pretty bad, especially the communists. Lots of war has made them ruthless, and it’s perfectly normal to have your ass whipped right off your body for talking in class. Note that the worst Asians are still better than the best Micronesians. One of the few bad things with Asians, especially Chinese, is that they think sleeping is an indulgence and drink tea 24 hours a day to stay awake and that leads to general craziness.

INDIAN These guys are pretty smart and resilient (see Gandhi starring Ben Kingsley). The women are also babes (except for the occasional fuzzy one) and the guys make good doctors. Unlike black people they CAN sunburn, which is a problem because a lot of Canadian ones will go down to Mexico and act all tough and then get fried (they go kind of purple). They used to stink but they don’t anymore.

AFRICAN Blacks tend to have sickle-shaped blood cells, which is fine in hot temperatures where your blood is thin but can lead to trouble in colder places where the thicker blood cells will stick to each other and cause sickle-cell anemia. Another thing about them is that their heels tend to be right angles instead of bulging out at the back like normal.

In 1974 John R. Baker broke down the Africans into two categories: Sanids (Bushmen) and Negrids. This is too complicated. There are way too many different kinds to understand. In America, for example, there are the hard-working, educated ones that are even better than white people. They do all the good things that good white people do but they are less hokey and can party. The bad American ones are fucking scary and are rarely discussed. Abroad the same pattern follows but more exaggerated. In Africa the nice ones are so educated they invent entire cultures. The bad ones, however, would eat the bad American ones alive. If you’ve ever seen how fearless a Zimbabwean gas attendant is during the night shift in the heart of Queens you know what we’re getting at. They are used to watching lions eat their friends so it’s like “bring it on.”

The rest of the places—West Indies, Barbados, Jamaica—are just fun- loving jolly people with rich and interesting accents.

Incidentally, mulattos have an incredible metabolism. The same way a purebred dog is a weak one, mulattos take the best of being white and the best of being black and make a person that is smarter and fitter. The only drawback is the increased metabolism means more B.O. (see any Lenny Kravitz party).

Here’s another weird thing. They have this rule where if you have a drop of black blood you’re black. That means Arabs are black. However, Arabs are Semites like Jews, so Jews are black? They became white after moving to Europe so I guess they’re mulatto.

Mediterranean people like Italians are kind of mulatto too. There should be a new category here called HYBRIDS but fuck it.

AMERICAN INDIAN These people used to be really cool but are basically fucked now. They used to only have to work 15 hours a week for food and shelter and therefore still love sleeping. Another interesting thing about them is that they have weird earwax. It is powdery and not waxy at all. Soon there will be no American Indians because they will have been killed via disease and “culture smushing” by the white man (see bottom of chart). Eskimos also fit into this category. They are capable of much lower temperatures than other races (duh).

POLYNESIAN, MICRONESIAN, MELANESIAN These are basically Spanish Asians. That’s why they’re brown. Polynesians are the lightest of these tropical island people and Melanesians are almost black. So black, in fact, that they used to be considered abbos. These three races include all those island people like Hawaiian and Seychelles people—the ones who wear hula skirts and can kill you with a blow dart. They are incredibly agile (note how all DMC champions are Philippino).

EUROPEAN White people are a funny bunch. Many Asians will note, upon their arrival to America, that “white people smell like hamburger.” They did very well a few hundred years ago but are kind of over now. At best the good ones will own a lawn care company (or something) and like the Who, but they are drastically outnumbered by the bad ones. Unlike other races the bad ones fall into two groups. There are the rich ones: Jack Welch, Dick Cheney, and the like. These men would let the whole world sink into the sea if it meant another SUV for their daughter. The other kind is called white trash. They would sell their baby for crack no problem. Many use the phrase “good while it lasted” when discussing this group.

AUSTRALIAN (ABBO) Not exactly killing shit as far as the babe population goes. Almost extinct thanks to white people, the abbos haven’t been doing well for about 500 years now. One weird characteristic about abbos is that they have this point in their life called a “walkabout” where, sometime around 18 years of age, they will just start walking and walking and walking. They leave all their stuff and start a new life when they get to wherever it is they end up walking to but they all do it and nobody knows why.

CHRISTOPHER PRINCE

Incidentally, what do you think of giving boys the father's surname and girls the mother's?

I don't really like most names, unless they are very old or very silly.

My child will be called Jon Carter Fitzgerald. I've no idea.

Shecky is a great name. Is it short for something?

reshecca

julia is a nice name

Adjust to your people’s chosen names! It’s easy

My first name is Michael and nothing makes me want to murder than when people call me “Mike”, that word is not welcome in my eardrums

i believe that in france one actually has some kind of legal obligation to stick to good ol proper french names (is this true? oughta google it i suppose) but what about everybody else?

I've actually rather heard of Germany having a working list of acceptable names but cannot imagine this working in practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Naming_Committee

I thought Mungo was a nickname of some sort like Shuggie is a nickname for Hugh, but apparently it’s a proper Scottish name

Patron saint of Glasgow!

xpost Lol, I knew a gay couple whose names where Karim and Karim. We used to call them Tall Karim and Short Karim.

To Volapük: Amazing. Love the kind of problems they have in Iceland :D

"Blær and her mother challenged the committee's decision in court, arguing that Blær had been used by Nobel Prize–winning Icelandic author Halldór Laxness as the name of a female character in his 1957 novel The Fish Can Sing. One other woman in Iceland was already registered at the time with the name Blær, and two declensions—one masculine and one feminine—exist for the name.

On 31 January 2013, the Reykjavík district court ruled in the family's favour and overruled the naming committee, finding that Blær could in fact be both a man's and a woman's name and rejecting government claims that it was necessary to deny her request in order to protect the Icelandic language. After the court's decision, Iceland's interior minister confirmed that the government would accept the ruling and would not appeal the case to the country's Supreme Court."

East-Anglia is non-rhotic BTW, this is the big difference with West Country.

I had relatives who were a married couple called Chris & Chris

(-tine and -topher)

reshecca

― petey, pablo & mary (m bison), Wednesday, June 18, 2025 1:35 AM

lols at work

i believe that in france one actually has some kind of legal obligation to stick to good ol proper french names (is this true? oughta google it i suppose) but what about everybody else?

this was true until 1993. now you can name your kid whatever you like, except it still needs to be legally approved and can be rejected if it is determined to be contrary to the interests of the child. examples of rejected names include Babar and Nutella.

I had relatives who were a married couple called Chris & Chris

just attended a wedding where the groom's parents were named Marty and Marti.

if Nutella wasn't a tasty hazelnut spread, I think that would be a great name for a baby girl

When she was very young, my sister had an imaginary friend, a girl called Semolina.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QklXon9lp70

Semolina Jolie and Nutella Lawson

newt ella for the gop jazz lovers

semolina with nutella - nuevo cuisine entry

Maybe of limited interest, but the list of baby names for Quebec is released every year: https://www.retraitequebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/services-en-ligne-outils/banque-de-prenoms/Pages/recherche_par_popularite.aspx?AnRefBp=2024&NbPre=100

Most of these are fine I guess but I am kind of surprised to see names like Jayden, Axel and Maverick in the top 50.

Interesting to see Charlie (#6) so close behind Charlotte (#4) on Quebec's list of girls' names.

Charlotte is also #4 in the U.S., but Charlie is #140. In England and Wales, Charlotte is #23 and Charlie all the way down at #774.

But in France, Charlie (#21) now actually more popular than Charlotte (#43).

(I'm guessing that Charlie is much less popular as a girls' name in the UK because it's a top 20 boys' name. It's not nearly as popular of a boys' name in the US and France.)

there's often a feeling (in the UK) that you name a child the "full" name even if you're going to call them a nickname from birth. my friend has a Frankie but I hadn't realised was actually Francesca on her birth certificate. So I'm not surprised if many are Charlotte with a nickname of Charlie (although my friend's Charlotte is Lottie).

otoh there is also a move towards the cutesy name being the registered name - eg Albie, Teddy. Maybe more for boys.

Just remembered that Alex in NYC's firstborn is named Charlotte, and she must be about 20 now! Don't know what she goes by.

Interesting to see Charlie (#6) so close behind Charlotte (#4) on Quebec's list of girls' names.

I weirdly never even occurred to me that Charlie is a shortened version of Charlotte. People don't tend to do shortened nicknames here for the most part as far as I can tell, if they want their daughter to be called Charlie, they will just name her Charlie.

Many Charlottes are Lottie.

Lotta Lotties.

Not a lotta Lottas though. I guess the comic book character Little Lotta basically finished that name off.

My great aunt's name was Liselotte but her nickname was Lilo.

Lieselotte, opps

How were her floatation skills?

I had to Google that. I didn't know that's what they call pool floats here. I don't think I've ever been in a pool in the UK. When Logan started being called Lilo it did feel weird since it made me think of my giant German chain-smoking aunt. I do like the name though. Apparently it's derived from Elizabeth and Charlotte.

Lohan not gan.

(I'm guessing that Charlie is much less popular as a girls' name in the UK because it's a top 20 boys' name. It's not nearly as popular of a boys' name in the US and France.)

― jaymc, Thursday, June 19, 2025 9:45 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

interesting because the world’s most famous female charli is from the uk

yeah but her name is charlotte

There are loads of Charlies and a few of them coincidentally have music industry dads who spent two decades putting guess what up their noses.

XCX is short for Excelxior

xpost also probably true

My Charlotte goes by ... Charlotte. Also answers to "Char." Some friends of hers from high school (she's a rising college senior, now) still refer to her as "C-Money."

:D

Thought my Theodore would have a good choice of Theo, Ted, maybe even Teddy? But no. His friends at school apparently call him "Tibby" - which is a name for a cat afaic.

ONS latest dataset has been released for England & Wales 2024.
Girls
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesenglandandwalesbabynamesstatisticsgirls

Boys
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesenglandandwalesbabynamesstatisticsboys

Rank Name Count Change in Rank Since 2023 Change in Rank Since 2014
1 Olivia 2,761 0 1
2 Amelia 2,448 0 -1
3 Lily 2,185 1 6
4 Isla 2,056 -1 -1
5 Ivy 1,956 2 49
6 Florence 1,936 2 20
7 Freya 1,929 -2 14
8 Poppy 1,888 3 -3
9 Ava 1,774 -3 -3
10 Elsie 1,727 4 22
11 Isabella 1,708 -1 -4
12 Sofia 1,626 7 16
13 Sophia 1,610 -1 -1
14 Mia 1,609 2 -1
15 Maya 1,592 14 30
16 Bonnie 1,583 10 127*
17 Phoebe 1,549 3 5
18 Daisy 1,548 -1 6
19 Sienna 1,537 -4 1
20 Evelyn 1,512 -7 11

Rank Name Count Change in Rank Since 2023 Change in Rank Since 2014
1 Muhammad 5,721 0 13
2 Noah 4,139 0 9
3 Oliver 3,492 0 -2
4 Arthur 3,368 2 37
5 Leo 3,324 0 11
6 George 3,257 -2 1
7 Luca 2,814 0 51
8 Theodore 2,761 0 51
9 Oscar 2,747 0 -1
10 Archie 2,575 3 7
11 Jude 2,540 4 54
12 Theo 2,387 -1 25
13 Freddie 2,369 -1 7
14 Henry 2,360 -4 1
15 Arlo 2,220 -1 126*
16 Alfie 2,020 0 -4
17 Charlie 1,956 0 -12
18 Finley 1,886 2 18
19 Albie 1,820 3 98*
20 Harry 1,765 1 -17

Pretty much all the boys' names are at our schools except Alfie, Luca and Muhammed (afaik) - including about 8000 Arlos - but I've not met a single little Olivia, Amelia, Florence or Bonnie.

My youngest only had about 35 others with the same name in the year he was born - now there are over 115. My eldest - there were over 3000 with his name when born, now fewer than 950.

'all the boys' names' meaning this top 20 which I've arbitrarily posted here.

Just browsing the lower reaches of the list with all the non-traditional spellings and Legends, Excels etc

have not met a baby Freya yet

It feels 90s to me - my friend has a 9yo Freya but that's the only one I know.

Sofia leapfrogging Sophia is interesting.

Freya is a name that is way more popular in the UK than the US. The US is 5x more populous than the UK overall, but there were more individual Freyas born in the UK last year (1,929 vs. 1,877). (It ranked #149 in the US.)

Other names where the total number of UK children born with that name in 2024 exceeds the number of US children:

Florence
Poppy
Bonnie

Muhammad
Arthur
George
Oscar
Archie
Jude
Alfie
Freddie
Finley
Albie
Harry

Alfie, Freddie, and Albie aren't even in the top 1,000 in the U.S. There were fewer than 100 boys born with each of those names in 2024.

i would’ve assumed all three of those names were nicknames

Short for Alfresco, Geoffred, and Albumen, respectively