Cannot pick between these two names for daughter

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of women like me avoid the trendy-overused names of this generation because we have one of the trendy-overused names of our generation (and HATE it).

My name is Emily. It was the #1 name in the US for most of my childhood. I remember asking my mom once why she gave me such a popular name and she was kind of sheepish and said "I didn't realize it was popular! No one I knew had that name." And of course she was right -- she had no way of knowing that it would become so popular.

Now, posters on here will tell you that because of the Internet that shouldn't happen anymore, but it does. Names just kind of move into the zeitgeist. It happens constantly. You'll pick a name ranked in the 200s or the 400s, and five years later it will be in the top 100 and you'll wonder why, but it's because the same influences that subconsciously drew you to the name also impacted others. You are not that special, nor is your kid.

I know several people who have purposely given their kids names out of the top 1000 in the last few years. Guess what? They are all in the top 1000 now, and rising. Maybe they'll go high, or not, but no one is as original as they think they are. No one is going to think "Oh wow, your parents were really on the cutting edge of that naming trend in 2020, weren't they?" No one. This will never happen. No one will care. They will like the name or they won't. The end.

Anyway, I have a common name and it is a bummer sometimes. It's also convenient a lot. People usually know how to pronounce and spell my name. Lots of people will tell me "Oh, that's my sister's name!" Or "That was my best friend's name growing up!" And I think it can make them predisposed to like me. But it's truly not the best or worst thing about me, thank goodness. It doesn't define me, I define it.

My name is also Emily. I am in my early sixties and knew less than 5 Emily’s during my entire growing up. I was named after my grandmother. Names cycle in and out of popularity.

[Anonymous]

Wait I'm sorry, are people calling Sophie and Charlotte fad names?? I must be reading wrong, right?! Queen Charlotte, anyone? Queen Sofia??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Heather redux.
Charlotte has more class.
Sophie is a nickname in itself. It’s Sophia.

Sophie is the French version and is a stand-alone name. Do you also feel Christine is a nickname for Christina, Isabel(le) is a nickname for Isabella, and Anne is a nickname for Anna?

I feel a French spelling for an American girl is pretentious.

Uninspired trolling.

[Anonymous]

Oh my goodness, I go and give birth and see that my name thread reached twelve pages?! :0

Thank you all for your responses. Hilariously, her first name ended up not being one of these two! We switched course last minute and went with a beautiful Hebrew name I won't post here but I will say we went with Sophie for her middle name

Off to read all your responses...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait I'm sorry, are people calling Sophie and Charlotte fad names?? I must be reading wrong, right?! Queen Charlotte, anyone? Queen Sofia??

Yes, it is so weird. I feel like I’ve stumbled into some kind of Novel Baby Name cult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh my goodness, I go and give birth and see that my name thread reached twelve pages?! :0

Thank you all for your responses. Hilariously, her first name ended up not being one of these two! We switched course last minute and went with a beautiful Hebrew name I won't post here but I will say we went with Sophie for her middle name

Off to read all your responses...

Congratulations!! I voted for Sophie.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wait I'm sorry, are people calling Sophie and Charlotte fad names?? I must be reading wrong, right?! Queen Charlotte, anyone? Queen Sofia??

Yes, it is so weird. I feel like I’ve stumbled into some kind of Novel Baby Name cult.

Do you understand what fad means? It means something that I see wildly popular or I Never fashion. It has nothing to do with the age or history of the fad object.

[Anonymous]

Sophie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait I'm sorry, are people calling Sophie and Charlotte fad names?? I must be reading wrong, right?! Queen Charlotte, anyone? Queen Sofia??

They are fad names in 2021. Fad or trendy or popular or overused - all means the same.

Emily is an old name and was a fad/trendy name when I was in high school. So was Ava and Olivia a couple years ago.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wait I'm sorry, are people calling Sophie and Charlotte fad names?? I must be reading wrong, right?! Queen Charlotte, anyone? Queen Sofia??

They are fad names in 2021. Fad or trendy or popular or overused - all means the same.

Emily is an old name and was a fad/trendy name when I was in high school. So was Ava and Olivia a couple years ago.

fad(n): a style or activity that suddenly becomes popular but which usually does not stay popular for very long: He thought computers would be just a fad. (Cambridge English Dictionary)

None of these names are or were fads.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wait I'm sorry, are people calling Sophie and Charlotte fad names?? I must be reading wrong, right?! Queen Charlotte, anyone? Queen Sofia??

They are fad names in 2021. Fad or trendy or popular or overused - all means the same.

Emily is an old name and was a fad/trendy name when I was in high school. So was Ava and Olivia a couple years ago.

You obviously don't know anything because Olivia is *currently* to top girl's name. It may be a fad, but if so we're still in it.

Anyway, popular, overused, and fad do not mean the same thing at all.

Popular: lots of people like it
Overused: too many people like it, has become too commonplace
Fad: Lots of people like it for a short period of time and then no one likes it anymore

These are popular names, you could argue they are overused. None of them are fads, as they have all been relatively popular for a long time and people still like them. Most people refer to them as "classic" names for that reason.

[Anonymous]

I know 2 families who used the super popular names (Ava or Olivia) for one child and a completely made up or off the wall name for the other. I won't say the names here because they may use these boards and would be very easily identifiable. I actually really like both families a lot. Just always found it so interesting that 2 kids from the same family have such totally different style names.

[Anonymous]

Look, if a name is nice, many will use it. No way around it. Of a name is uncommon, it’s because it isn’t that nice of a name and not that many people like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know 2 families who used the super popular names (Ava or Olivia) for one child and a completely made up or off the wall name for the other. I won't say the names here because they may use these boards and would be very easily identifiable. I actually really like both families a lot. Just always found it so interesting that 2 kids from the same family have such totally different style names.

One of my kids names is in the 800s and the other's is top 10

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look, if a name is nice, many will use it. No way around it. Of a name is uncommon, it’s because it isn’t that nice of a name and not that many people like it.

again, there are names that fall out of favor, but it doesn't mean they aren't nice names