It’s back to school time and the mad rush is on for shiny new backpacks and shoes that can take a beating. Does anyone look forward to hearing the names of your childrens’ classmates as much as any other part of the process?
Guilty.
While we are just beginning to think about preschool applications here, I do have a short list of children we’ve met in recent days. Come one come all– ballet class, soccer practice, home room and tai kwon do. Post ‘em! And if you really want to make this fun, don’t be afraid to tell us (roughly) where you’re from.
Here’s mine so far:
Abigail (& Keagan)
Bella
Eva
Michelle
Sadie (& Declan)
Arthur
Declan (& Sadie)
Eliseo (& Itzal)
Felix
Griffin
Itzal (& Eliseo)
Judah
Keagan (& Abigail)
Luca
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Yes! I was so excited to read the names of my daughter’s preschool class. These are 4 year olds in the midwest USA:
Rose (& Henry)
Cora
Sophia
Joslyn
Kiley
Hailey (& Carissa)
Owen (& Carson & Grant (twins))
Michael
Logan
Devin
Garrett
Evan
Tyler
The most interesting name on the list was Mimosa, but it turns out that she’s not in the class anymore.
We visited yesterday and all the children had to say their name. My daughter is Rose and when she said her name, the little girl next to her asked her Mom: “Is that her real name?!?”
Felix & Griffin are pretty cool on your list. Sadie & Declan make a cute sounding pair too.
These are the two nursery classes of a private school (pre-prep) in Surrey, England…
Alexander
Annabel
Benedict
Daniel
Elizabeth
George
Harriet
James
Julius (my DS)
Lucy
Nicholas
Polly
Sarah
Violet
William
Alexander
Blair (boy)
Charlotte
Edward
Eleanor
Grace
Isabella
Jack
Katherine
Lily
Matthew
Oliver
Poppy
Susannah
William
The only one that really stands out to me, is Blair, as I see it as being a very American name. That’s not said in an offensive way, it’s just how I view the name, and part of me wonders if he has an American parent. However, then it is a boy, and correct me if I’m wrong but I though it was more a girl’s name in the US. So perhaps he is named after our former Prime Minister instead!
That’s interesting about Blair… it stood out to me too. I (American) know only one Blair personally, a man in his mid-twenties. It seems like an odd choice for a boy, American or English, and not really common for a girl either.
My best bet is he’s named for the Prime Minister.
It’s always a treat to see the names of your child’s classmates!
MS Gulf Coast:
Noah
Christian
Rhys
Brennan (& Aiden & Lillian)
Sam
Alena
Hunter (& Fisher)
Vivian (& Lillian, twins)
Sean
Ryleigh
Alexis
Teah (& Peyton)
Trenton
Campbell (& Isabella)
Blake
Abby
Juliana
Addison
Presley
Lillian (& Vivian)
Teah is pronounced TAY-uh. My daughter’s 2nd grade:
Anna Beth
Caleb
Lauren
Amera
Nicole
Jadaka
Emma (& Wyatt)
Dylan (& Emily)
Isabella (& Campbell)
Joshua (& Joel)
Victoria
Caroline (& Anna & Warren & Carter)
Alex (& Corbin)
Veronica
Christopher
Nicholas
Sophia
Danielle
Gabriela (& Dominic & Isabella & Alexandra)
Camille (& Estelle)
Maddie (& Emma)
Christian
Brendan
Other names I noticed in the school:
Jax
Donovan
Myles
Novalee
Priscilla
Beau
Asa
LauraJean
Ricardo
Rosalyn
Marina
Sheldon
Russell
Hunter and Fisher as siblings? I don’t like that.
Camille and Estelle, however…
I’ve also heard of twins Camille and Marina. Love that name!
I’ve only noticed a few interesting names in my daughter’s Kindergarten class: Iexa, Zeke, and Camilla. Those are wild for where we live (central CA). The rest of the class is made up of Alex’s (girl), Paytons, Madelines, Lukes and the like.
Loving twins Lillian and Vivian from the comment above.
Forgot two surprisingly good boys names: Harrison and Hudson. There was also an Elijah but he has been sent back down to preschool, poor kid.
My mom’s a teacher and she got her classlist. Her students are: (These are the ones I remember.)
Sadie
Merrit (girl)
Mi’kayla (I can’t explain the ‘)
Kameron (boy)
Lindsay (boy)
Morgan
Armani (girl) This one makes me laugh.
She’s in Georgia.
Peers at day care:
Nikita
Rubina
Ilyas (Jasmine)
Charles “Charlie”
Genevieve (DD)
Josephine (DD)
William
Vishnu
Emma (Maxime)
Amelie
Baby Gym:
Aurora (Stella)
Maxwell (Anthony)
MeiLei prn “Miley”
Braedon
Charlotte “Charlie”
Poppy
Emma x3 (Jack)
Oliver
Bennett (James)
Alexander “Zander” (Avi)
Matthias
Berkley (girl)
George
Ethan
We live in MA
Aurora and Stella are fab. sister names!
My favorite name EVER is in that list! I am really crossing my fingers that it’s going to stay not-too-popular!
you won’t say which one???? I love Genevieve & Josephine as sibs. Gorgeous names!
I live in the Kansas City, MO metro area. Here are some names from my oldest daughter’s pre-school class (3 and 4 year olds):
Norah (my daughter)
Lilli
Rochelle
Alyssa
Jeanne
Addisyn
Nova
Jamie
Martha (the poor girl’s full name is Martha Stewart…thankfully, she goes by Martha Grace)
Cooper
Tyler
Jeremiah
Jacob
Connor
Rahhaf
Alejandro
David
I swear that on one of the other classroom bulletin boards, I saw the name Milkey. Yikes!
Oh, and my youngest daughter (17 months) is in daycare. The kids in her class are:
Lucy (my daughter)
Stella
Dylan
Ty
Brandon
Martha Stewart? Why, why, why would someone do that? I try really hard to be open minded when I read these lists, but come on. If your last name is Stewart find any other name beside Martha. Or Rod.
Love your girls names, also. Norah and Lucy are adorable!
My thoughts exactly on the Martha Stewart name. I mean, if Martha is a family name and you MUST use it, for heaven’s sake use it in the mn spot if you have the last name Stewart!!!
Glad you like Norah and Lucy as a sibset…I think it suits them both perfectly. I only wish I’d realized how popular Lucy was!
some of my DD’s preschool (We’re in Hollywood, CA)
Mazzy (sister Twyla)
Strummer
Bowie
Fenix
Annabelle (sister Ivy)
Pippa (sister Millie)
Mischa
Those are awesome.
I love Pippa & Millie.
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Fenix? Of all the ugh-inducing, fonetik spelling awefulness. . . .
The rest are not too bad — I like Twyla.
Fenix? Of all the ugh-inducing, fonetik spelling awfulness. . . .
The rest are not too bad — I like Twyla.
We live in New York (not the city) and my sister just recently got a job as an art teacher, so of course, I had a peek at her class lists. There were the predictable: 7 Jacobs (two of them were Jakob), 7 Emilys (1 was an Emilee), 4 Ethans, a coupe Ryans, a couple Zacharys. What was surprising was that there were as many Karlies as there were Ethans — All with that spelling. I took notes of the more interesting ones, so I’ll be back with those later. (One memorable one was a little Esperanza! Score one for the home team!)
I adore Felix. The rest are ok. They just don’t jump out at me.
Names from the bohemian artist parent set in downtown NYC:
Malachy
Gigi
Clementine
Scarlet
Isabella
Harrison
Oscar
Tristan
Leandro
Liam
Boomer
Pascal
Marly
Henry
Orlena
Great list! I bet Boomer keeps it real!
Second grade in the south:
Jahneia (juh nay uh)
Breona
Isabella
Taylor (girl)
Kyala (ky-la)
Javarous
Zavi’ya (zah-vee-yay)(boy)
Kaylee
Amy
Nevaeh
Dylan
Bryan
Estefania
Ryan
Micaiah (mih-kai-uh)(boy)
Alyssa
Addison (boy)
Cameron(boy)
Some of the more unique names from the upper midwest:
Anderson
Sutton
Griffen
Asa
Oma
and his teacher’s name is Arrin.
Girls in my granddaughter’s ballet class, age 5-7:
Mariya (kr8tyv spelling of Mariah)
Delaney
Liliana x 2 (don’t know the spelling)
Annalisa (guessing at the spelling)
Emerson
Eve
Rachel
We’re in Central California (Blissfully Caffeinated… I didn’t know we were neighbors)
Last year my son started PreK 3. At the open house, I looked aorund for any listing of all the children’s names. I found a big bulletin board with construction paper fish with names. I looked them over-Christian, Austin, Morgan, Jayden and there in the middle was “Chocolate”! I was surprised, I’d never heard that one! I asked the teacher which child was named Chocolate, and she laughed-it’s the name of the teddy bear mascot for the class!
Nice one! That made me laugh out loud for real.
My daughter age 2 is in a music class in venice beach CA. Some of the more unusaul names are:
Girls:
Georgiana
Georgia
Genevieve
Indigo
Stella and margot(twins)
Luna
Flyn
Persephany
Luella
Pearl
Daylee
Noa
Boys:
Hopper
Java
rufus
Crew
Kai-noa
Jasper
Uh, that isn’t Persephone hidden under that cloak of horrible, is it? And Daylee? That really just proves that for girl names these days, all you have to do is add a letter to -aylee and it’s “OMG thats soooo kyoot and speshul lik da sunshine!!!1!!”
I’m afraid that my daughter’s preschool class has a case of the “-ens/-ons.”
Hayden
Brandon
Peyton
Cece
Kate
Jameson
My 3 yo granddaughter started preschool here in rural Idaho. Here is her class list:
Shyann (granddaughter & Teagan Gregory)
Liliana (& Lane)
Reilly & Mariah (twins & Savannah)
Aubry
Ivy Rose
Hailey (& Jacob & Samantha)
Wyatt
Jaydan
Tarzan (& Titus)
Malachi
Colin (& Justice-girl)
how do you look someone in the eye and keep a straight face once they introduce you to their son “Tarzan”? yikes.
My baby boy is only 7 1/2 months, so not quite ready for school yet, but these are the names of the babies in my mother’s group:
Luca (my little one!)
Wolf
Mackenzie
Charlie
Jayden
Lucinda
Sofia
Marion
Oh, and I’m from Sydney, Australia
Awww, Luca’s a beautiful name!
Thanks!
We also have a Wilhelmina (Wila) who’s just re-joined us. Love that name!
My son’s a bit too young for school yet, but here are some name from his infant cohort in Massachusetts, all under one year:
Antonio (AJ)
Carlos (Charlie)
Dylan (x2, both boys)
Emma
Ezra
Harrison (Harry)
Jack (not sure if it’s a NN or not)
Logan
Löwen
Olivia
Sean (not sure which spelling)
Sydney (a girl)
Zev (my DS)
My daughter’s pre-K class at a Jewish pre-school in the south
Brian
Katie
Sam
Sammy
Samuel
Max
Chase
Noah
Ellie
Julia
Giulia
Charlie
Guy
Yes, 9 boys and 3 of them have the given name at birth of Samuel.
Roseanna’s also too young for any kind of school, but quite a few of our friends here in western Canada have recently had children.
Tamar Sophia
Lukas Cornelius
Danika (& Bronson)
Amy Frances
Evan
Marcus
Constantine Charles
Paul
Rocco
The kids I babysit are 5 year old twingirls(will turn 6 in January) and 4 year old boy/girl twin. Te girlsare in their second year of kindergarten, the b/g in the first year. Mind that we live in the Netherlands and kids start school here at the age of 4. These kids parents are all doctors, lawyers and all those fancy jobs. (Sorry, the lists are long!) Enjoy!
Year 2
Boys:
Kas
Ingmar
Friso
Rens
Simon
Ties
Damian
Milan
Malov
Bas
Lucas
Mart
Girls:
Heleen (twin to Robin)
Robin (twin to Heleen)
Lisette
Britt
Ella
Mathilde
Julia
Roos
Lotte
Yasmin
Eva
Jytte
Sarah
Year 1:
Boys:
Quinten
Joep
Sidney
Robin
Ethan
Thijmen
Luuk
Sem
Lars
Timo
Lucas
Teun
Cas
Ties (twin to Lisa)
Feddo
Vinn
Sil
Guus
Sven
Jesse
Mik
Stijn
Joris
Sjoerd
Jamie
Christian
Thijs
Ruben
Pleun
Girls:
Fenne
Josephine
Noor
Esmee
Femke
Minke
Marit
Lidewij
Lisa (twin to Ties)
Laura
Lola
Lotta
Emma
Elise
Nina
Sylie
Romee
Winneke
Maria
even though I am from Sweden, I thought it might be fun to tell what kind of names we have here. so this is a few names from my 9-year-old brother’s school class:
girls
Hilda
Klara
Tilde
Sara
Alice
Emmeline
Elin
boys
William
Ludvig (my brother, plus atleast two more)
Sander
Dennis
Johan
Elias
Lukas
my daughter is 3, not in any classes but friends names are…
Ruby
Tori
Mackenzie
Tylla
Madison(mine)
Madison
Amelia
Anna
Ella
Emily
Mya
Kalani
Zachary
Lachlan
Brooklyn
Oakleigh
Marleigh
Joe
Blake
Rawiri
Owen
Cody
Ethan
Xander
We’re from Perth Western Australia
Hello! I really love your website, and names. I’m still just a teenager myself, but these are the names in my homeroom. (I live in western PA):
Girls:
Alexis
Hannah
Lexi
Samantha (me)
Merritt
Nicole
Kaitlyn
Briana
Boys:
Stefan
Preston
Isaiah
Chris (probably Christopher)
Gregory
Shaun
Matt
–There are more, but my brain really isn’t working right now.
It’s been awhile since I’ve checked my favorite blog here, but I had to add…
I teach 4th grade in CO. This year I have many of the same names, but one different one is Burgundy. I wasn’t sure how I liked it at first, but I became more defensive of little Burgundy’s name when another parent was making fun of it. It feels like a very strong, rich name. Definitely NOT Madison or Katelyn!
I don’t have a class list but do know someone who works at the maternity ward in a hospital. A recent patient named her daughter “Abcde” prounched ab-sah-day….unbelievable. I thought this was one for the books.
I’ve met an Abcde before! One of those names you’d have no idea what to do with if the mom’s not there to tell you how to pronounce it. I always though it sounded like a weird combination of “abstinence” and “absinthe.”
From British Columbia
my daughter’s kindergarten class:
Girls
Alicia
Yasmeen
Halie (& Beth & Braeden)
Charlize
Lynzee
Jillian (& Rebecca & Holly & Luke)
Abigail (& Julie)
Erica
Jasleen
Valeria
Angel
Riya
Diya (twin to Riya)
Jasmine
Morgan (DD)
Boys
Kyle
Wayne
Riley
Gurjas
Anthony