Most common (overused?) names among infants & toddlers in this area?

[Anonymous]

I don't know too many babies IRL, but all of my friends on FB seem to have given their children the same name:
Lucy, London, Elijah, Dylan, Maya, Ella, Gavin

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Anonymous wrote:I so love the name Cooper and wanted to name my son that. But, my husband wanted a more common name that has made the lists of most the PP.

There are 2 Coopers in DDs very small daycare, so you never know.

[Anonymous]

My DS is a William and I know several others ranging in age from 5-newborn. We knew it was a popular name but didn't care because it's a family name and we felt that it's classic.

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Lucy, Henry, Jack, Charlie (boy or girl. seriously), Finn, Elle/Ellie/Ella

[Anonymous]

Finn, Finnegan, Phineaus.

[Anonymous]

I know of four Finns born in the same month of this year.

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Olivia and Aidan

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Anonymous wrote:Most popular in DC:

1 William Allison
2 Michael Sophia
3 James Ashley
4 Alexander Katherine
5 Daniel Abigail
6 Christopher Elizabeth
7 John Taylor
8 Joshua Charlotte
9 Elijah Zoe
10 Jacob Anna

That list of names for DC sounds odd to me. Isn't DC majority African American? The AA families I know do NOT name their girls Ashley, Katherine and Zoe.

[Anonymous]

Also, nobody names their babies "Allison" anymore.

[Anonymous]

Wait, maybe "Allison" is popular among Latino families? Anybody know?

[Anonymous]

Go with a timeless name, maybe Jesus?

[Anonymous]

I have an Alex and am surprised at how few other Alexes we meet - we've never had another Alex in the same class. We're in close in MoCo, so maybe all the NW DC Alexes truly are a neighborhood phenomenon (or maybe we'll meet the influx of Alexes in middle school.)

Hands down the most overused names we know are Jack and Sophia. Love both names, but boy it gets tiring to ask which one, especially since you pretty quickly get duplicates of last name initials (two Sophia C's etc).

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I know there are 4 Liams in DC's school.

[Anonymous]

In the group of babies under 12 months we spend time with, 2 girls are Olivia, 2 girls are Evelyn, and 2 are Annabelle.

I also check the register at the pediatrician's office and see that apparently lots of Indian people around here are naming their baby Akash, which makes me breathe a sigh of relief that we had a girl, since I had chosen that name for a son.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most popular in DC:

1 William Allison
2 Michael Sophia
3 James Ashley
4 Alexander Katherine
5 Daniel Abigail
6 Christopher Elizabeth
7 John Taylor
8 Joshua Charlotte
9 Elijah Zoe
10 Jacob Anna

That list of names for DC sounds odd to me. Isn't DC majority African American? The AA families I know do NOT name their girls Ashley, Katherine and Zoe.

Allison looks like it's on the rise in DC: #40 in 2007, #13 in 2008, then #1 in 2009. Total numbers of babies born in DC are small though--that's 41 Allisons versus 40 Sophias for 2009.

Also, the most popular names do not necessary represent the majority population--just group think that may be occurring in a smaller population. If you look at the top 100 list, you might see more names that suggest the large African-American population that DC has, but I'm not personally in a position to label particular names as white or African-American.

That said, I some of the names listed are more race neutral--Ashley comes to mind. In "Beyond Jennifer and Jason" (a book that is a bit dated), "many of the same names—Taylor and Ashley for girls, for instance, and Christopher and Michael for boys—are most popular for children of all races."