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Anonymous wrote:Both of these names have been within the top 100 or 200 names for over 100 years. That's the opposite of a fad. A baby Charlotte or Sophie is likely to run into children with her name, as well as adults and older relatives. She is likely to encounter children with her name even once she is an adult. This is the experience of millions of people all over the world every day. People are very into using different names right now. One could argue that that is the trend. Giving your kid one of these names is literally never trendy.
If OP was thinking about naming her child after a Game of Thrones character, maybe I get the "concern". But she's not. These are classic names that have been popular in English-speaking countries for over a century (probably longer, but I could only look them up on the SSA site going back to 1900). Cautioning someone against naming their kid Charlotte or Sophie is deranged.
My name is Sophie. I was named for my father's aunt, who was named for her grandmother. Hardly a fad!
Oh, come on! If you’re old enough to post here, it wasn’t a fad when you were born. That’s really not a hard concept to grasp, PP. If you are a Susan born in 1960, your name was part of the fad. If you’re baby is named Susan today, you’re clearly not.
No, you are the one who is not grasping. Go look at the SSA history for Sophie and Charlotte. These are not fad names. They have been popular forever.
Sophie is currently ranked #75. But Sophie has been in the top 200 since the 90s. It was ranked #136 one hundred years ago, which is barely less popular than today.
Oh, you want to look at Sophia instead? Okay. It's #5 now. In 1983 it was #210. In 1921 it was #299. These names didn't come out of nowhere and suddenly get trendy. Are they peaking in popularity? Maybe. But keep in mind the most popular names now are nowhere near as popular as they used to be. There are fewer Sophias today than there were Marys and Susan in the 50s. These names are classics. Eternal.
Charlotte is even more obvious. The highest it's ranked on the SSA list in the last 121 years is #308, in the 80s. But it's ranked in the top 200 for most of the last century, and in the top 100 for (eyeballing here) about half that time.
Calling these names "fads" is like saying it's a fad for women to wear pants, or that eating salad is a fad, or that living in California is a fad. Look up the words "fad" and "trendy". You are using them incorrectly.