Popular children’s names causing chaos at school nurseries

On-trend children’s names are causing significant problems for nursery staff thanks to an influx of new attendees with the same moniker.

Now the children born in 2016 are old enough to attend nursery, and with several parents selecting the same name for their new family addition, staff are struggling to ensure that the right belongings go home with the right child or that lunchboxes are given to the correct owner.

Looking back to 2016, the most popular boy’s names for that year included Harry, Oscar, George and Oliver showing a clear trend for more traditional names. For the girls born in 2016, a similar pattern can be seen with plenty of Olivias, Sophias, Lilies, Amelias and Emilies being registered.

Many nursery staff have noted that there can be as many as five children with the same name in any one group, making it tricky to distinguish between their belongings if parents are using standard sew in clothing labels or just writing their name on drinks bottles and other belongings.

This can cause significant problems should a child have allergies or food sensitivities and many lunchboxes that prove to be popular with children of nursery age often carry the same colours or cartoon characters. This makes it even harder for nursery staff to match the right box with the right child which can cause issues if the wrong lunch is ingested.

To help nursery staff connect the right belongings and lunches with the right child, Raw Labels is promoting the use of its colourful iron-on clothing name labels for sweaters and coats plus their range of stick-on name labels that show an image of the child in question.

Not only are the iron clothing labels colourful and carry the first name of the child, but parents can choose from an array of cute cartoon style graphics such as teddy bears and butterflies so that children of all ages are able to identify their items of clothing by the child-friendly image.

For items such as drinks bottles and lunchboxes, each sticker comes complete with the child’s name and their photograph so that nursery staff will instantly be able to recognise to whom the item belongs.

To find out more about the range of photograph sticker labels and iron-on clothing labels from Raw Labels, visit https://www.rawlabels.co.uk/