S/O Favorite names outside the top 200

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like:
Thea (293) nn of Theodora or Dorothea (both out of the top 1,000).
Hattie (451) nn Harriet (983)
Helen (427)
Gloria (556)
Priscilla (575)
Ellen (797)
Arden (952) -- Ive seen this one used by a few preppy families I know, potential to become the next Sloane

I really loved Hattie as a nn but I refuse to name a kid a nn and thought Harriet was too dowdy, even though I loved Harriet the Spy as a kid. We went with Caroline.

Is Sloane really all that popular? I see people reference it as a love-it-or-hate-it preppy name. But I don’t know anyone who named their daughter Sloane, and it’s not one of the most popular baby names on the SSA list.

[Anonymous]

Here’s my list, starting at 200, of names I like:
Lauren
Georgia
Elise
Paige
Nicole
Catherine
Maeve
Malia
Julianna
Delaney
Phoebe
Brynn
Madeleine
Jacqueline
Helen
Daphne
Frances
Erin
Francesca
Maren
Christina
Cecelia
Mallory
Anne
Mara
Louisa
Emmeline
Jillian
Elsa
Clare
Christine
Kathleen
Harriet

Patrick
Felix
Simon
Jorge
Atticus
Garrett
Solomon
Keegan
Conrad
Samson
Reece
Brendan
Mitchell
Eugene
Anders

My favorites are Patrick, Maeve, Jillian, and Georgia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like:
Thea (293) nn of Theodora or Dorothea (both out of the top 1,000).
Hattie (451) nn Harriet (983)
Helen (427)
Gloria (556)
Priscilla (575)
Ellen (797)
Arden (952) -- Ive seen this one used by a few preppy families I know, potential to become the next Sloane

I really loved Hattie as a nn but I refuse to name a kid a nn and thought Harriet was too dowdy, even though I loved Harriet the Spy as a kid. We went with Caroline.

Is Sloane really all that popular? I see people reference it as a love-it-or-hate-it preppy name. But I don’t know anyone who named their daughter Sloane, and it’s not one of the most popular baby names on the SSA list.

It's climbed up the charts a lot lately, from out of the top 1000 to actually top 200 now (currently #191).

I think because of the emphasis on having an original name, you see a lot more discussion and debate about names much further down the list. More people consider them, whereas it used to be that everyone gave their kids the same 30 names, and then anything else was "unusual". Now most names are relatively unusual. Last year, the top 10 girls names went to a total of 136,261 babies. That sounds like a lot, until you find out that the just the top 4 names in 1980 went to 159,762 babies in 1980. And almost 60,000 of those babies were just named Jennifer.

So yeah, people talk about a lot wider selection of names now, because there is just more diversity overall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like:
Thea (293) nn of Theodora or Dorothea (both out of the top 1,000).
Hattie (451) nn Harriet (983)
Helen (427)
Gloria (556)
Priscilla (575)
Ellen (797)
Arden (952) -- Ive seen this one used by a few preppy families I know, potential to become the next Sloane

I really loved Hattie as a nn but I refuse to name a kid a nn and thought Harriet was too dowdy, even though I loved Harriet the Spy as a kid. We went with Caroline.

Is Sloane really all that popular? I see people reference it as a love-it-or-hate-it preppy name. But I don’t know anyone who named their daughter Sloane, and it’s not one of the most popular baby names on the SSA list.

It's climbed up the charts a lot lately, from out of the top 1000 to actually top 200 now (currently #191).

I think because of the emphasis on having an original name, you see a lot more discussion and debate about names much further down the list. More people consider them, whereas it used to be that everyone gave their kids the same 30 names, and then anything else was "unusual". Now most names are relatively unusual. Last year, the top 10 girls names went to a total of 136,261 babies. That sounds like a lot, until you find out that the just the top 4 names in 1980 went to 159,762 babies in 1980. And almost 60,000 of those babies were just named Jennifer.

So yeah, people talk about a lot wider selection of names now, because there is just more diversity overall.

You’re technically correct, but the numbers would be very different if certain trendy names were lumped together.

Sophia/Sofia/Sophie
Isabella/Isabel/Isabelle/Bella(as a fn)
Ellie/Elle/Ella/related-fns
Amelia/Emilia/Emily

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like:
Thea (293) nn of Theodora or Dorothea (both out of the top 1,000).
Hattie (451) nn Harriet (983)
Helen (427)
Gloria (556)
Priscilla (575)
Ellen (797)
Arden (952) -- Ive seen this one used by a few preppy families I know, potential to become the next Sloane

I really loved Hattie as a nn but I refuse to name a kid a nn and thought Harriet was too dowdy, even though I loved Harriet the Spy as a kid. We went with Caroline.

Is Sloane really all that popular? I see people reference it as a love-it-or-hate-it preppy name. But I don’t know anyone who named their daughter Sloane, and it’s not one of the most popular baby names on the SSA list.

It's climbed up the charts a lot lately, from out of the top 1000 to actually top 200 now (currently #191).

I think because of the emphasis on having an original name, you see a lot more discussion and debate about names much further down the list. More people consider them, whereas it used to be that everyone gave their kids the same 30 names, and then anything else was "unusual". Now most names are relatively unusual. Last year, the top 10 girls names went to a total of 136,261 babies. That sounds like a lot, until you find out that the just the top 4 names in 1980 went to 159,762 babies in 1980. And almost 60,000 of those babies were just named Jennifer.

So yeah, people talk about a lot wider selection of names now, because there is just more diversity overall.

You’re technically correct, but the numbers would be very different if certain trendy names were lumped together.

Sophia/Sofia/Sophie
Isabella/Isabel/Isabelle/Bella(as a fn)
Ellie/Elle/Ella/related-fns
Amelia/Emilia/Emily

Yeah, but that's always true (Jennifer, Jenny, Jennie, Jena, Jenifer). There are still fewer children with any one family of names now than there were then.

Fun fact: there were 211 boys named Jennifer in 1980. It was #599 on the top boy names list that year.

[Anonymous]

Biker

[Anonymous]

This was actually one of my requirements for naming my daughter.

These were the finalist names:
Paloma
Georgia
Celeste
Vivienne
Margot
Simone
Helena

[Anonymous]

I like a lot of these names. We talked about Desmond and Martin but chickened out. Our boys have very plain, perennial top-10 names.

[Anonymous]

I found that the boys’ names beyond 200 seemed a lot odder to us than the girls’ names. The universe of boys’ names just seems smaller. We picked two names up in the 70s/80s in the list and very rarely encounter another boy with those names.

[Anonymous]

Reid, Noel, and Archer (which is my son's name) are the only ones I actually really like between 200-500 for boys.

I don't have a girl, and my taste is all over the board, but I like Shelby, Wren, Carolina, and Joy from 200-500 on the list. Someone upthread said Arden, which was actually on my girl name list when I was pregnant.

[Anonymous]

Patrick, Peter, Felix, Arlo (tried to convince DH to name DS this)

Georgia (my fave girls name ever), Maisie, Evie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like:
Thea (293) nn of Theodora or Dorothea (both out of the top 1,000).
Hattie (451) nn Harriet (983)
Helen (427)
Gloria (556)
Priscilla (575)
Ellen (797)
Arden (952) -- Ive seen this one used by a few preppy families I know, potential to become the next Sloane

I really loved Hattie as a nn but I refuse to name a kid a nn and thought Harriet was too dowdy, even though I loved Harriet the Spy as a kid. We went with Caroline.

Is Sloane really all that popular? I see people reference it as a love-it-or-hate-it preppy name. But I don’t know anyone who named their daughter Sloane, and it’s not one of the most popular baby names on the SSA list.

I am PP. I mentioned Sloane bc of how quickly its jumped up the rankings. After never being ranked, it was #885 in 2009 and rose steadily to #181/190 in 2018/19.

Its probably much more popular in preppy communities in certain states/regions than nationally. I know 2 Sloanes under age 5 among my preppy high school friends/acquaintances. And I know 1 Sloane here in DC that is the child of a colleague. Meanwhile I know zero young Sophias, Emmas or Harpers.