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My mom's name is quite unusual and she has hated it all her life, so her philosophy on naming kids is "the more normal and popular, the better." My name was very high on the popularity list for my birth year, and my brother's name is one of the classics that never goes out of style. I'm not sure my dad had such strong feelings about it, but I know he really likes both names.

DH likes unique names, but not in the spelling way -- more in the "I'm not sure I've ever heard of anyone else with that name" way. Add in that these names are all in his first language, and they become VERY unusual around here, indeed. I'm in the middle, as I like names that are a little uncommon but not so much so that the kids will get teased or have a hard time later in life because of it. My mom will probably be horrified by our name choices, but they're really not that out there...she'll just be afraid of the fact that they're nowhere near the Top 100.

I think we're about the same. My parents liked trendy names, but not crazy names. Also, they like the idea of naming after someone, in some cases. But, me and my siblings all have timeless names, too, if that makes any sense.

DS's name is pretty timeless, too, so I guess we do have that in common.

My mom named my sister and I very unique names...and then my little sisters is super common.
I want to give my children unique names too. I've always loved having one.

She doesn't like my name I've picked out for my son though!

"Most of them are yooooneek though" <-- That made me LOL!

both my brother and I have very classic and common names, though some of the names my mom liked that my dad vetoed are a bit wacky (like, my mom wanted to name my brother Robin...not my taste). I like names that are still classic but a little more unusual, like in the top 200-500 rather than top 50.

my mom likes our name choices though! she has already approved, haha

My mom picked pretty classic names for my sister and I. We also went with a traditional name for DS so I guess our styles are similar.

In theory we have similar tastes (liking classic but not TOO popular names) but our favorites are always different.

@Mrs. Champagne: Probably not. We'll use DH's name as a Jr. if it's a boy but our possible girl name is totally different.