How popular is your name?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....lar-is-your-name.html

[penelope2]

Not very popular by the looks of it.

[China Doll]

Not massively apparently.

[EcclesCake]

It would appear that 14 babies have been registered with the same name as me since 1996.

[craft1948]

Mine is extremely rare (which I prefer to unpopular). Even at it's highest there were never more than 300 per year in the last 15 years.

[tenrec]

Looking at the chart my real name is extremely rare, but I knew that!

[ChuckFickens]

[i]Broadly, in recent years, girls’ names have become more flowery and old-fashioned, while Biblical boys’ names are out of favour.[i]

Well that explains why my Biblical name has dropped in popularity so much then.

[DTCwordfan]

Is that total births in the UK, or per 100k......

[emmie]

not very, at least not now.

[tenrec]

Mine was .25 in 1996? What the heck does that mean?

[ChuckFickens]

If you use the original site the mail got the info from it's given in percentage of births.

http://names.darkgreener.com/

[gness]

Not popular at all now but if someone calls it out in a big Irish family like mine at least a dozen of us answer.

[DTCwordfan]

I come in at 500 but out of what?

[B00]

Mine (Rachel) peaked at about 2k in 1997, then been downhill ever since...'nuff said!

[Kiki-frog]

Surprisingly popular in 1996, but gone rapidly downhill ever since.

[B00]

total births in that given year I assume DT?

[Frank97]

Mine seems to be getting less popular, it's dropped every year since 1996. I quite like that actually!

[annie0000]

mine not so popular any more, elder sons becoming less popular - not that it was ever above the hundreds, husband has a fairly unusual name that is rapidly shooting up in popularity and my younger sons name has only been registered 9 times in total and not since 2005. These are English records though and both kids have Gaelic names and husbands is Irish (sort of) I think!

[tenrec]

Thanks Chuck, I'm not there at all now!!

[tinkerbell23]

Dont know anyone with the same spelling x

[EcclesCake]

My name is so stupid I still have 3 zero's in front using Chuck's link.

Unusual names are not always fun, novel, amusing etc. Quite frankly they are a pain in the arse.