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I accidentally named ds a top name, but it's super traditional and common that it wasn't one of the trendy ones. So far we've been lucky that's he's the only one in his class.

This next LO is off any list I've seen roll out. But, it's common to where everyone has heard it and she can get a mug at the tourist shop, lol. I'm quite proud of that accomplishment. Of course, probably next year there will be a boom for it.

it did but to the extent that i was checking if the names we came up with were on the top 100 lists. it was more like i stayed away from extremely popular ones that i knew of without looking at lists (e.g., Jacob, Isabella, Emma, Aiden etc), and when i came up with a name i liked, i then looked it up and was just happy to see it was not in the top anything since the 40s or 50s i think. i don't think i would have vetoed it if i discovered it was more popular though.

My name was pretty consistently in the top 5 for at least 15 years, and I was Sarah D. in almost all of my classes growing up. I still have 4 friends named Sarah. It bothered me growing up, but not now.

But because it did bother me then we made a point to stay out of the Top 25. I think if we had really really loved a name lower on the list than that we would have considered it, especially if it was a family name, but E's name is in the 40s somewhere. Still pretty popular, but I don't think he'll be Evan M in school.

I absolutely DID NOT want a popular name. So it was very important to us. We went with Mavrick and Sienna (those are rare where we live as in only 10 in our province (state)