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Anonymous
| I've seen Riley a lot for girls...our male dog is named Riley so maybe I'm a bit more sensitive when I hear it. I love the name though...even seen it spelled Rileigh. |
Anonymous
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we decided to go back to the 50's for girls names, Linda, Susan, Diane, etc., and the boys, Kevin, Greg, Kurt, Brad, David, Sam and Jack. We have been lucky not to find as many as we feared in elementary school.
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Anonymous
| um, to the poster who posted my maiden name...who are you? |
Anonymous
| We know 6 boys around age 6 named Jack. |
Anonymous
| Your best bet for a unique name is to choose a Native American name. A friend of mine named her daughters Nirveli and Keziah. Beautiful names, definitely not common, and they hold a special and specific meaning. Wish I had thought of that before we named DD Lola. |
Anonymous
DD is just a bit younger, but if she was a boy, she would have been Jack. |
Anonymous
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They say that you get into the common names by trend without even knowing it.
My husband and I liked Max, but it became popular (not on the top lists really but we've met a few) and then Noah and the year my daughter was born it shot up the lists to like 11 or something. Everyone is looking at the lists for something "uncommon" so some of them all go up at the same time because the trend still seeps into your brain even though you don't realize it! I mean, Honor is now on the lists. My office mate used Owen a few years ago and I'd met no Owens and now it's popular. Some names become common because of babies being named after people from a couple generations ago. I named my daughter Hannah after my Grandmother and a friend of mine named her daughter Lillian after her grandmother so couldn't do much to help using them even though they're popular. I've heard of a lot of the middle name "Rose" for this reason also. I actually have only met one other baby named Hannah, but a few 8 year olds. I think that it's more popular in the bible belt. My name, Lori, is not popular at all now but Lauren has really shot up the list. Pick something you like because you really don't know. Who'd have thought that Henry would become so popular so quickly? In my daughter's daycare there are kids with these names: Morgan (girl), Brett (girl), Graham (boy), Bobby (boy), Tali (girl.....and seemingly popular for Jewish girls), Nicholas. So, no repeats. There's a girl named Heaven in the toddler room, which you'd think was uncommon but isn't anymore. |
Anonymous
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Across my kids' classes seems like lots of:
Cate, Kate, Katie, Katherine, Catherine, Kathleen, Cathleen Charlie/Charles Daniel, Danielle Emma, Emmerson Gabriel, Gabriella Jack, Jackson Schuyler, Skyler Sydney Will/William/Liam Zoe, Zoey |
Anonymous
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I love this thread! I just found out I am pregnant with #2 and want to choose something a little different (but not TOOOO different). I thought I chose something a little unique for my daughter and have met quite a few little girls with the same name! Oh well! I have been looking way back at family trees for unusual names, but there are some real doozies back in the 1700s and 1800s!
In our daycare/classes/friends, we have multiple Sophie/Sophia/Sofie, Henry, Caroline, Lily/Lilly/Lillian, Alexandra, Jake, Jackson, Elle/Ellie... What do people think about names with the same last syllable? My current top girl name has the same last syllable as baby 1. Is it cheesy to have rhyming names? |
Anonymous
I think it's fine as long as the first syllable is different enough. |
Anonymous
| hmmm....my 15mo son it ALSO named Liam, after his Irish-American dad William! He was born around the same time as Tori Spelling's little boy, and man was I IRKED when I found out she had named him that! We've had lots of trouble with people pronouncing it, too, so we just tell them "it's the second half of William." |
Anonymous
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Most popular girl's name now in my opinion----Sophie/Sofie/Sophia/Sofia. I think we know a dozen under 6 and I always hear it called out by moms in the grocery store.
As to boys--we know a ton of boys named Max. 3 within a block of my house actually. Other popular names I hear in DC are Gus, Jack, Sam. Know about 6 each. It's interesting because I don't think the national rankings really apply to NW DC neighborhoods. We're all fairly homogeneous and want classic, family names for our kids. So we're all choosing from about 20 different names. Lily, Kate, Isabelle, Ava, Stella, Madeline, Caroline, Sophie, Maya, Ella, Grace, Mary, Claire, Eleanor.... and then Thomas, Charles, William, Samuel, Owen, Henry, Oliver, Miles, Graham, John, Peter, Max,.... All GREAT names but of course they're going to be super popular in an area like this. My opinion is that you choose a name that you love and has family significance and not because you want it to be unique. I'm not going to saddle my kid with a crazy name just because I happen to live in yuppy central where all the classic names are super popular. |
Anonymous
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I have a DD named Sasha. I just loved the name, it was 400 or so on the SSA list and we went with it. Then neighbors who had a baby a year after us named their DD Sasha, too! I thought it was oddly coincidental.
Of course now that Obama's daughter is Sasha it will go way up in popularity! |
Anonymous
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so, if you choose a name that DOESN'T have family significance, what does that make the name? Dirt?
The name we used is a name everyone has heard, but I don't do family names and wanted something that gave my child a chance at having a name that not everyone had. A name that isn't a top 20 name isn't necessarily non-classic....or non-classy... |
Anonymous
| I know a surprising number of little girls named Elle and Ella. As for boys, Christopher and Connor seem popular in our daycare. |