How popular is your first name?

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[Harrowby Hall]

My name is not very common and I was teased about it when I was an adolescent. Apparently, I was named after a footballer. I count myself lucky that I was not named after the whole bloody team!

[Robbie]

My first name is a timeless classic, has taken a dip recently but still reasonably popular & has been so for centuries!   My second name is something I only come across occasionally, usually on TV;  my parents gave me my second name after my mum's dear friend,now deceased, who was a French-Canadian journo.  When I went 'up' to school aged 11 there where a lot of people who had my first name (E) with dimunitives, my form teacher asked if anyone had a second name they would like to be used & I eagerly put hand up and said "D".   It has stuck with some friends and my sister, including diminutives, but much prefer my first name.  However I don't care that much although I only ever come across the D name nowadays on TV.

At work I am known as "Robbie",which I like.

I gave my two girls ordinary but charming names.

[SusanDoris]

I think my first name is fairly common, but my second was my mother's name, and, coincidentally, was the first name of my ex-mother-in-law too!
I have always preferred to be called by the whole name (Susan) rather than Sue, but do not bother as there are some people who have ignored my request since way bak when!

[floo]

I think my first name is fairly common, but my second was my mother's name, and, coincidentally, was the first name of my ex-mother-in-law too!
I have always preferred to be called by the whole name (Susan) rather than Sue, but do not bother as there are some people who have ignored my request since way bak when!

Whilst Susan was a very popular name when I was young, I haven't come across any youngsters called Susan.

I correct anyone who doesn't call me by my full name, I don't like the popular shortened version of it. However I have no problem with the one I was called by my father when I was a kid, and used by husband, siblings and grandchildren, with Granny inserted first of course.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

My name was almost unknown when I was born, it became popular in the nineties but less so in recent years.

[Robbie]

I think my first name is fairly common, but my second was my mother's name, and, coincidentally, was the first name of my ex-mother-in-law too!
I have always preferred to be called by the whole name (Susan) rather than Sue, but do not bother as there are some people who have ignored my request since way bak when!

I think Susan is a lovely name, likewise Suzanne, I have a friend of each, both known as Sue.  It's true you don't hear of many Susans now amongst children but I think that will change, names go in and out of vogue.  I'm looking forward to more Susans in the future.

Thinking about it, Angela and Margaret are names that seems to have gone out of fashion recently, both lovely names.

[Harrowby Hall]

Apparently, Throne of Kings (I've never watched it) is a considerable generator of children's names.

[SteveH]

My first name is Stephen (that, by the way, is the correct spelling). It's not the name I'd have chosen for myself, but I can live with it. It's one of those names that are moderately popular at any time, and don't seem to go in and out of fashion, unlike Harold, my father's name, which was very popular between about 1890 and 1930 (my dad was born in 1916), but then went severely out of fashion, and is now very rare, since most Harolds have died. On the female side, Vera and Edith were once very popular - at about the same time that Harold was - but have now disappeared.

[Rhiannon]

My name is not very common and I was teased about it when I was an adolescent. Apparently, I was named after a footballer. I count myself lucky that I was not named after the whole bloody team!

Nobby?

[ippy]

Nobby?

Quite Stylish.

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[Robbie]

My first name is Stephen (that, by the way, is the correct spelling). It's not the name I'd have chosen for myself, but I can live with it. It's one of those names that are moderately popular at any time, and don't seem to go in and out of fashion, unlike Harold, my father's name, which was very popular between about 1890 and 1930 (my dad was born in 1916), but then went severely out of fashion, and is now very rare, since most Harolds have died. On the female side, Vera and Edith were once very popular - at about the same time that Harold was - but have now disappeared.

Stephen is a smashing name!  Who would ever complain about being called Stephen?  A timeless name.

I was thinking the other day that very few people now call me by my second name - which was common when I was at school & couple of ex schoolfriends still use it + sister sometimes - maybe I should insist on first name but there again, it doesn't seem that important.  Except my second name appears to be most common amongst soap actors and sports people.  Yet - who cares really?  It's not that bad. 

(My linitials before taking my husband's name when I married, were EDL!)

[Sebastian Toe]

True story.
I knew a girl whose first name was Patricia. She was not fond of it at all and insisted that she was to be called Pat.

That was until she found the love of her life!
Once they were engaged, she had to suddenly find an appreciation for her given name and we all had to revert to calling her Patricia. Not easy after so many years.
Why?
Her married name was to be Hiscock!
You couldn't make it up.....

[torridon]

a rather nice data vis on the changing popularity of first names over time, England and Wales :

http://names.darkgreener.com/

[Harrowby Hall]

Interesting. My name results in a zero response.   

[floo]

My first name is Stephen (that, by the way, is the correct spelling). It's not the name I'd have chosen for myself, but I can live with it. It's one of those names that are moderately popular at any time, and don't seem to go in and out of fashion, unlike Harold, my father's name, which was very popular between about 1890 and 1930 (my dad was born in 1916), but then went severely out of fashion, and is now very rare, since most Harolds have died. On the female side, Vera and Edith were once very popular - at about the same time that Harold was - but have now disappeared.

I don't see anything wrong with Stephen, quite a nice name, in fact, even though it has been spoilt for me having a relative by that name, whom I can't stand.

As for Harold, my maternal grandfather who died before I was born, had that first name. He had an interesting claim to fame.

[SteveH]

Stephen's an ok name, just not what I'd've chosen myself.

[Robbie]

My first name ranked 26 in 1996 and 38 in 2016.
My second name, which I've said I use, ranked 848 in 1996 and 4763 2016!  It figures.

Some of the most popular names now, at least the top ten, are really quite pretty.  I like Ava, Emily, Oliver.