I have only ever heard of 40+ year old men called Nigel, the name is quite literally dying out >The father of a rare baby Nigel says he hopes the name can make a comeback. >The name, according to latest figures, is on the brink of extinction in England and Wales, with fewer than three Nigels born in 2016. >The way data is recorded means it is not known whether there are two babies keeping the name alive, or just 13-month-old Nigel Ball, of Willenhall, West Midlands bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-41430087
So next time you call a British poster Nigel, remember it's highly improbable a 20 something is named Nigel
Pffft, all the traditional names in Europe are disappearing. No young people in France are named Jacques or Michel anymore, no young Germans are Otto or Hans, no young Poles are Wladimir or Boleslaw, etc, etc.
Tyler Moore
don't know a single person with that name either
Connor Morgan
It's a cool name owned by cool dudes like pic related.
The Wild Thornberries ruined that name forever. Fuck that show.
Liam Moore
Fuck you nigger that show was great for an early 2000s cartoon.
Chase Cook
>no young Poles are Wladimir or Boleslaw BTW, in the 90s when everyone was obsessed with American culture in Eastern Europe, lots of people start giving kids American names like Amy or Derek or Taylor. Eventually the Polish government started requiring parents to use Polish spellings of names, so you had to name your kid Dzrzrek or Tzrzrzrzlr or something like that.
Logan Diaz
I know a native guy named Nigel lmao
Noah Roberts
We get called Sven but it was not even in the top 100 for newborn in Sweden. I have only met two guys with that name.
>I have only met two guys with that name how old though? I've only ever known 2 people callled Nigel and both were fathers of friends
Owen Walker
One old guy and one the same age as me (20).
Still doesn't change that it's not common at all nowadays.
Chase Allen
>Dzrzrek or Tzrzrzrzlr Those are black american names though
Wyatt Kelly
In most of those cases it's just globalization/Americanization that made the traditional names seem stuffy and out of date. In Germany's case of course it's too nationalistic and German to name a child Otto or Hans. Nowadays they like giving kids Jewish names like Jacob or Sarah out of guilt.
Gabriel Adams
not to the same extent as nigel though is it? read the article in the OP, only 1 or 2 babies called Nigel in the whole UK in 2016
William Barnes
I've never met someone named Bruce but that's what everyone calls Australians. Get over yourself, man, and roll with the punches.
Jayden Stewart
>No young people in France are named Jacques or Michel anymore Wrong
Owen Edwards
>Boleslaw lel
Alexander Smith
>yourself, man, and
fucking state of your grammar. Bogan trash
Connor Wood
I never met a frenchman named frog
Evan Robinson
most common baby names 2016
girls >1. Sofia 480 >2. Alma 447 >3. Emma 439 >4. Ella 438 >5. Ida 428 >6. Freja 427 >7. Clara 426 >8. Anna 402 >9. Laura 396 >10. Alberte 386
boys >1. Noah 538 >2. Victor 531 >3. Oliver 523 >4. Oscar 521 >5. William 520 >6. Lucas 509 >7. Carl 483 >8. Malthe 451 >9. Emil 445 >10. Alfred 433
yet everyone call us mehmet or hans
Easton Lewis
It doesn't really matter, some names just bring some stereotypes, if you met an Englishman named Sven wouldn't you think of Sweden?
There is nothing more annoying than an ESL who doesn't have experience with actual spoken English in transcription.
Hudson Green
At least on the girl side there's some overlap with American naming trends since 2000, in particular Sofia and Emma have popular. No sign of 1930s grandma names like Alma and Ida coming back though.
Austin Fisher
>AHHH GOONSACK WAHHHH
Do us a favour and neck yourself
John Anderson
sven is a traditional swedish name that has been popular for 1000 years en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven look at all of those current relevant people with the name sven today considering sweden has a much smaller population
as I mentioned in and you can see in pic related, Nigel isn't a traditional English name and was only ever popular for a brief period in time
Alma and Ida are so ugly sounding I can't imagine they'll ever be rediscovered. Some old-fashioned names come back but they're usually ones like Grace or Hazel that are easier on the ears.
Brody Miller
Alma means sol in spanish. I don't think it's common in hispanic countries, but it's a pretty name in my opinion.
Aaron Smith
>sol soul* also check em dubs
Carson Anderson
As of right now it's popular for the upper class to name their children old danish or french names. The middle class goes for short normal names
Alma and Ida are considered young names here. Never heard anyone above the age of 25 with those names
Zachary Jenkins
Good for you because absolutely no babies in this country have been named Alma or Ida since Coolidge was president.
Noah Jenkins
>Emma >Ella >Anna >Laura >Oliver >William >Carl >Marie >Sophie >Maria >Hannah >Johanna >Alexander >Paul >Louis >Ben not sure if you care but these are the only names in your lists that are popular in Britain too
Cameron James
thinking I'm gonna sneak and obscure roman emperor's name into my kid's middle names thoughts?
Blake Sanchez
>improbable
Isn't Muhammed the most common baby name in Britain though?
Daniel Martin
Names always shift in popularity, pic related our most common names, all 20 of them are traditional here.
Oliver Parker
I know two Augustin's, my grandpa was Julius
WE
Ryan Myers
improbable to posting an Sup Forums while pakis make up 4% (I think?) of UK population the ratio of them posting on Sup Forums would be lower there's definitely a couple pakis posting here under our flag but just to be posting here they'd tend to be more moderate or no longer religious
Easton Campbell
my folklore prof's first name's Augustus
WUZ
Gavin Lewis
>chinese guy goes to england >starts talking to black guy >hello nige-
Leo Thompson
eh I know a lot of pakistani diaspora that post here, myself included
I think being an Sup Forumsernational board we are over-represented
Jacob Richardson
Alma and Ida were popular mostly in the last two decades of the 19th century; by the 1920s already nobody was still giving those names to kids.
Jonathan Miller
Roman emperor names used to be pretty common in Europe particularly with upper class families.
Dylan Allen
>pakistani diaspora that post here, myself included rare for america but I would say the experience of a paki in the UK compared to USA is very different there's enough of them here to form their own insular communities and have little contact with real British people I doubt you have that privilege and are just another brown yank
Benjamin Moore
Yes we share a lot of names apparently the more danish names within top 50. there's a lot of danish boy names so I didn't bother listing them 6. Freja 427 15. Lærke 316 20. Mathilde 279 22. Emilie 268 23. Liva 266 30. Mille 234 32. Frida 223 38. Vigga 187 (lol) 36. Signe 146 48. Johanne 141
No, even if you combine all the different spellings it's 8th. Most popular male name is Oliver and for females it's Olivia
Josiah Roberts
Depends, official census data puts it at like 8th but some sources combine all iterations of it and other names and some don't (Like Oliver, Oli, Harry and Henry etc) though there are arguments against that as well (Which you'll no doubt see on here) so you're bound to get different answers from both people and data.
Olivia has been popular in the US recently but not Oliver. I don't think Oliver has ever been common here.
Isaac Cooper
>>The name, according to latest figures, is on the brink of extinction in England and Wales That suits the character and reality of English people very well. Sorry Nigerl, I am sticking with it
Sebastian White
It's a recent thing, it was all about Amelia a couple of years ago and before that it was Chloe. Incidentally I've never met a Chloe that wasn't a massive slag.
Nathan Torres
Honestly, names like Emma, Madison, and Sophia are also white trash core.
Tyler Scott
Assumedly that's because those are "standard" white people names, so they're quite popular overall.
Adrian Diaz
>even the brownest neighborhood in Bradford isn't nearly as racially insular as american neighborhoods are m8 probably true but I seriously doubt there's enough pakis in Maryland to form a real paki neighbourhood for the record I live in Birmingham and there's differently a few areas in this city which are american ghetto tier (demographics wise)
difference being is they're a lot less dangerous to be in, definitely fucking grim and ugly and unpleasant to walk through but I don't really feel intimidated or have to worry about getting shot
Kevin Watson
why did you delete your post you paki bastard?
Joshua Turner
Not at all, Oliver has been very popular since 2010. But it had been rarely seen in the US since the 19th century.
Cameron Flores
Probably to do with all the Irish
Kayden Perez
>by the 1920s already nobody was still giving those names to kids At that time, Betty was huge, but it was just a fad for about 7-8 years after which the name vanished and has never come back. I think it's too cheesy-sounding and associated with cartoon characters to ever be revived.
Gavin Sullivan
Yes, Ida has been a popular baby name in Northern Europe lately but I'll eat my hat if it ever sees the light of day again here.
Josiah Wood
Fair enough Chauncey
Justin Rivera
What's with noah's popularity?
Ayden Reed
I have literally never heard someone call an australian "bruce"
Aaron Myers
alri omar
Alexander Howard
Nora has come back but not Norma.
Kevin Cox
Ah ha ha ha ha ha.
Logan Davis
noice, gonna go with this one
William Jones
Not only have i never met anyone named "Pajeet", i've never ever even heard of that name, google doesn't show any list where the name "Pajeet" exists. It's fucking BS.
Nolan Long
Kinda sounds like "Baljeet"
Joseph Morris
No you're thinking of that story where they only collected users from one specific site. Official sources, from the Office of National Statistics, it's not.
