Most common (overused?) names among infants & toddlers in this area?

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Anonymous wrote:Question for those of you who chose family names for your DC. Would you have done the same thing if people in your family all had awful names, or did you just happen to get lucky that your family members had great monikers?

It feels to me like there's often this subtle (or sometimes not so subtle) air of superiority among those who pick family names for their kids--like parents who (gasp!) choose names they just happen to like are somehow beneath everyone else.

If you're lucky enough that grandma had a beautiful and (surprise!) suddenly trendy name, congratulations, but please don't look down on me for not naming my kid Bernice or Aloysius.

It's easy in big Catholic families to find a name that you like... Favorite great-aunt Nora/Anne/Sadie/Genevieve/etc makes the perfectly trendy family name to continue on.

I gave my DS a family name, I always wanted to do the family name thing, though. My DS's name is classic but not even remotely popular. I sometimes feel a little snooty when I say "It was my grandfather's name," because it is distinguished and uncommon at the same time, like I purposely sought out the perfect name. I just wanted to name DS after my grandfather.

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I have two daughters with classic names (also family names for us). Neither is in the top 1000.

I have a really hard time believing you found two "classic" names that aren't in the top 1000.

My DS's name is totally classic--think major political philosopher had his name and it is NOT in the top 1000, oddly. It is similar, though, to a name that I think is in the top 10 or at least steadily rising in the top 100.

Julius? Calvin (adorable, btw)? Martin? Augustine? Locke?

[Anonymous]

Ahhh... my beautiful son's name made it to the "atrocious" list. So sad. But, I already know some people (MIL) hate it, and some people love it. We get a lot of compliments on it, and we also get a lot of "Oh... uh... is that a family name?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question for those of you who chose family names for your DC. Would you have done the same thing if people in your family all had awful names, or did you just happen to get lucky that your family members had great monikers?

It feels to me like there's often this subtle (or sometimes not so subtle) air of superiority among those who pick family names for their kids--like parents who (gasp!) choose names they just happen to like are somehow beneath everyone else.

If you're lucky enough that grandma had a beautiful and (surprise!) suddenly trendy name, congratulations, but please don't look down on me for not naming my kid Bernice or Aloysius.

It was the 'person' not really the name that was the motivating factor for us. We are lucky to have great familly members who were fantastic people that we wanted to name our children after. I am Irish and Anglo background so the names are very traditional (benign) as well. I'd like to think we'd still use the names to honor them if they weren't as nice...but maybe it would be a middle name instead.

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I have two daughters with classic names (also family names for us). Neither is in the top 1000.

I have a really hard time believing you found two "classic" names that aren't in the top 1000.

My DS's name is totally classic--think major political philosopher had his name and it is NOT in the top 1000, oddly. It is similar, though, to a name that I think is in the top 10 or at least steadily rising in the top 100.

Kierkegaard?

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Anonymous wrote:
I have two daughters with classic names (also family names for us). Neither is in the top 1000.

I have a really hard time believing you found two "classic" names that aren't in the top 1000.

My DS's name is totally classic--think major political philosopher had his name and it is NOT in the top 1000, oddly. It is similar, though, to a name that I think is in the top 10 or at least steadily rising in the top 100.

Julius? Calvin (adorable, btw)? Martin? Augustine? Locke?

Can't be Julius because it's in the top 500. I have a Julius and with all this talk, I checked it out.

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Anonymous wrote:
I have two daughters with classic names (also family names for us). Neither is in the top 1000.

I have a really hard time believing you found two "classic" names that aren't in the top 1000.

My DS's name is totally classic--think major political philosopher had his name and it is NOT in the top 1000, oddly. It is similar, though, to a name that I think is in the top 10 or at least steadily rising in the top 100.

Julius? Calvin (adorable, btw)? Martin? Augustine? Locke?

Nope.

Clue: He served in the House of Commons.

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Anonymous wrote:
I have two daughters with classic names (also family names for us). Neither is in the top 1000.

I have a really hard time believing you found two "classic" names that aren't in the top 1000.

My DS's name is totally classic--think major political philosopher had his name and it is NOT in the top 1000, oddly. It is similar, though, to a name that I think is in the top 10 or at least steadily rising in the top 100.

Julius? Calvin (adorable, btw)? Martin? Augustine? Locke?

Nope.

Clue: He served in the House of Commons.

And I just checked the SS website and it hasn't ranked in the top 1000 since 1997 and it's never been in the top 100... I kind of feel bad now, it's never been even a remotely popular name. My name is on the rise and is incredibly popular right now by comparison.

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Edmund

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Must be Edmund since it hasn't been in the top 1,000 since 1997 when it was ranked 924th.

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Anonymous wrote:Must be Edmund since it hasn't been in the top 1,000 since 1997 when it was ranked 924th.

Bingo.

[Anonymous]

My daughter's name NEVER makes either the "good" or "bad" lists on DCUM!

For this, I'm grateful!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Question for those of you who chose family names for your DC. Would you have done the same thing if people in your family all had awful names, or did you just happen to get lucky that your family members had great monikers?

It feels to me like there's often this subtle (or sometimes not so subtle) air of superiority among those who pick family names for their kids--like parents who (gasp!) choose names they just happen to like are somehow beneath everyone else.

If you're lucky enough that grandma had a beautiful and (surprise!) suddenly trendy name, congratulations, but please don't look down on me for not naming my kid Bernice or Aloysius.

My three kids are all named after ancestors. It is my family tradition, as is using surnames as middle names. I named my kids family names to honor my family, but I don't see why that makes me snooty. I certainly don't give a damn about whether anyone else uses family names, so it sounds to me as though your perceived "subtle air of superiority" says more about you than it does about me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Question for those of you who chose family names for your DC. Would you have done the same thing if people in your family all had awful names, or did you just happen to get lucky that your family members had great monikers?

It feels to me like there's often this subtle (or sometimes not so subtle) air of superiority among those who pick family names for their kids--like parents who (gasp!) choose names they just happen to like are somehow beneath everyone else.

If you're lucky enough that grandma had a beautiful and (surprise!) suddenly trendy name, congratulations, but please don't look down on me for not naming my kid Bernice or Aloysius.

My three kids are all named after ancestors. It is my family tradition, as is using surnames as middle names. I named my kids family names to honor my family, but I don't see why that makes me snooty. I certainly don't give a damn about whether anyone else uses family names, so it sounds to me as though your perceived "subtle air of superiority" says more about you than it does about me.

Oh please. PP clearly isn't trying to implicate everyone who's ever used a family name. If the shoe fits, wear it. If it doesn't, don't. But don't assume the phenomenon doesn't exist simply because you don't engage in it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Question for those of you who chose family names for your DC. Would you have done the same thing if people in your family all had awful names, or did you just happen to get lucky that your family members had great monikers?

It feels to me like there's often this subtle (or sometimes not so subtle) air of superiority among those who pick family names for their kids--like parents who (gasp!) choose names they just happen to like are somehow beneath everyone else.

If you're lucky enough that grandma had a beautiful and (surprise!) suddenly trendy name, congratulations, but please don't look down on me for not naming my kid Bernice or Aloysius.

My three kids are all named after ancestors. It is my family tradition, as is using surnames as middle names. I named my kids family names to honor my family, but I don't see why that makes me snooty. I certainly don't give a damn about whether anyone else uses family names, so it sounds to me as though your perceived "subtle air of superiority" says more about you than it does about me.

Oh please. PP clearly isn't trying to implicate everyone who's ever used a family name. If the shoe fits, wear it. If it doesn't, don't. But don't assume the phenomenon doesn't exist simply because you don't engage in it.

You know, there are family names, and then there are family names. I don't think it's snooty to name your son "William Henry Jones" (for example) if William Henry was dear old Granddad's name. But to name him "McIntyre Carruthers Jones" (totally made up example) or some other usage of your ancestors' surnames - that seems pretentious to me. To each her own.