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It doesn't matter too much to me. If it's a name you really
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I don't want it to be the Jennifer or Ashley of their generation, but other than that popular names are ok. We do have a very common last name, so I try to avoid super popular names (top 30 or 50) if we can, but it comes down to what we like!
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@WinterBee: Have you looked at the SSA website to see how popular the name Clara is in your state? SSA has recently updated their website to provide more specific data about the popularity of each name. Anyway, it's interesting to look because it might not be as popular as you think based on its national ranking.
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When we were naming DD1, I didn't care that much about popularity, but we ended up naming her something outside the top 1000, so for DD2, I wanted something that sort of "matched" popularity- and style-wise. Oddly enough, although DD2's name was actually much less common in recent years, I come across it way more frequently than dd1's name.
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Didn't care with our son, he was always going to be named after my grandfather, and it worked out well that in this generation his name is reasonably rare (haven't met anyone under the age of 5 with his name since he was born, know a few people my age, and a few more in the older generations). For #2 if we ever get there, we have a for sure girl name (also a family name) but if its a boy I guess we'll decide then. Popularity doesn't really come into my thought process actually.
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@Pancakes: I'm in Canada, I don't know about the official rating, I just know people who have used the name, and I see a lot of kids that are Claire/Clara (I'm a teacher) in our area.
I think I'm 'over' the name anyways haha, the problem is there is toooo many beautiful names out there! -
I definitely didn't want trendy, and I preferred it to not be too popular either. But I was also not going for unique. I wanted a name that would be easily recognizable and not cause questions, but that LO would hopefully be the only person in her class to have.
Unfortunately, since choosing her name, it seems to be popping up everywhere! So it may be more popular than what I was hoping for.
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I didn't want a name that was so popular he'd always have another one in his class. But I wanted it to be familiar and easy to pronounce. We went with Declan because I really liked it and thought it sounded trendy without actually being trendy, and I thought it would be easily recognized. Turns out less people are familiar with it than I would've thought and we've had people spell and pronounce it wrong. *sigh* oh well.
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DH and I were both given familiar but relatively uncommon names, so that's my preference. But honestly, for practical reasons, popularity only matters to me insomuch as I'd like my kids not to be one of 4-5 kids in their class with the same name...which unfortunately means that one family name (currently #1 in our state) is probably out.
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It's hard to say no to trendy, but ok to popular, not sure there's truly a difference. Anyhow, not a fan of popular names, as a concept/ theory because I hail from the great lakes region where everyone was sarah, kaitlyn, amanda, or kristin. Maybe it is just the 80s names that I got burnt out on.
I like classic names, European popular names, and unique names with meaning.
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We went with names that were classic but not trendy/popular. We wanted our children's names to be easy to spell/say but hard to forget. They must pass a resume test for us to use the name.
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@Greentea: I think the idea is its okay if it is a popular/common name, as long as it isn't due to a recent upshot in popularity. Like John is always going to be in the top 20, but Aiden won't be forever.
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I prefer less-common, but not out there. It was important to me that both of our girls' names not be anywhere near the top 100, and they weren't/ aren't.
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Both kids are mid 300s, almost exact in rankings which is so crazy because I didn't look it up until after they were born.
DS has a unique name but traditional and not common at the same time. Dd has a what I would say is a classic name, but you don't hear it often at all. -
I like uncommon, but not "weird" names. I think both my DS's names fit the bill.
I am also not on board with unisex names (for us personally, I like a lot of the names), so my boys both have definitely masculine names.
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I prefer names on the less common side - out of the top 100 would be ideal - but if I really love a name, only being in the top 10/20 would be a disqualifying factor.
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I didn't feel too strongly about popularity but DH has a very common name and is always 1 of 3-4 others with his first name in any given room/group/class etc. He really wanted our kids to have something more unique. The thing about names is that even if you want to avoid "trendy", check out baby name wizard's name voyager if you haven't already - I bet most of the names on your shortlist are spiking. That was the case for us but when we figured out how rare some of these names really are, we realized it wasn't an issue - for example, my name spiked around the time I was born with 260 babies per million having the same name. However I have met less than 10 others with my name in my lifetime so that degree of trendiness was acceptable to us.
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Only 25ish girls in the U.S. born in 2013 share a name with our daughter. I preferred names that were out of the top 500- but were familiar feeling- easy to say and spell. I just wanted something we both loved and could agree on.
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I'm fine with popular names, but I don't like trendy names. Personally though I pick unique names as my favorites and avoid popular names. I have a unique name and I always liked standing out and not being 1 of 10 Ashleys or Brittanys in school. Although mine commonly gets misspelled or incorrectly pronounced so I made sure when I picked T's name that it was unique but easily recognizable, easy to spell, and not "out there" like mine is.
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