Linguistics & statistics are a hobby of mine, and there’s a section on the CSO website that gives in-depth info about the names of babies born in Ireland in terms of popularity, etc.
Out of pure nosiness I looked up Pearl and Bowie. Less than 20 little Pearls per year have been born since around 2012, and JJ’s Pearl doesn’t seem to have made the name more popular in the subsequent years after her birth. It was ranked roughly 228th in terms of overall popularity.
Less than 3 Bowie’s were born annually for most of the last 10 years, apart from last year when 9 little Bowie’s were born, so it does seem to be slightly more popular now. It’s ranked roughly 896th overall in terms of popularity.
So even though they feel familiar now, both names are actually still really uncommon here. After seeing the statistics and knowing how much she overplans every minute detail I can’t see her picking anything in the top 200 names. It’s going to be something very obscure I think.
It’s actually a really fun website, I looked up stats for the year I was born and it turns out my name was way more popular than I thought