I need names that aren’t on top 500 list...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, here are names that are familiar but outside the Top 500 (which, btw, is heavy on misspellings of top 500 names).

Brendan
Pierce
Conrad
Lionel
Leonard
Quincy
Douglas
Bruno
Harold/Harry
Thaddeus
Stanley
Augustine
Thatcher
Ephraim
Duncan
Spencer
Cedric

If you’ll accept a name between 490-500, you can add Asa and Lawrence.

Blair
Matilda
Lorelai
Beatrice
Octavia
Laurel
Great
Marissa
Poppy
Marina
Noa
Martha
Deborah
Estelle/Estella
Judith
Opal
Nancy
Ramona
Iliana

And between 490-500, you get Lilith, Meredith, and Megan.

Augustine is just awful. I would do August over Augustine. And Great for a girl's name? Is that a misspelling? Never have I heard of Great as a name!

My dissertation advisor had a son named Augustine. And another son named Jerome. He really needed a hobby that would have generated a bigger list of names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or google ssa baby names and select for the top 1000, scroll to 501 and start reading.

+1
You'll have to sort out the kre8tiv spellings, but for girls, scrolling down produces names like: Bethany, Elisa, Virginia, Helena, Julie, Karina, Mallory, Karen, Gloria, Octavia, Cassandra, Monica, Zelda, Bridget, Rosa, Simone, Mercy, Corinne, Claudia, Paulina, Marjorie, Sonia, and Tara. What kind of names do you like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok, here are names that are familiar but outside the Top 500 (which, btw, is heavy on misspellings of top 500 names).

Brendan
Pierce
Conrad
Lionel
Leonard
Quincy
Douglas
Bruno
Harold/Harry
Thaddeus
Stanley
Augustine
Thatcher
Ephraim
Duncan
Spencer
Cedric

If you’ll accept a name between 490-500, you can add Asa and Lawrence.

Blair
Matilda
Lorelai
Beatrice
Octavia
Laurel
Great
Marissa
Poppy
Marina
Noa
Martha
Deborah
Estelle/Estella
Judith
Opal
Nancy
Ramona
Iliana

And between 490-500, you get Lilith, Meredith, and Megan.

Augustine is just awful. I would do August over Augustine. And Great for a girl's name? Is that a misspelling? Never have I heard of Great as a name!

My dissertation advisor had a son named Augustine. And another son named Jerome. He really needed a hobby that would have generated a bigger list of names.

Huh. Always thought Augustine was a girl’s name (and Augustus the male version).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duncan
Donovan
Ian
Sheldon

Elspeth
Prudence
Aviva
Marigold

Elspeth? Did you sneeze?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Charity
Chastity
Adolf
Napoleon

They didn't request trailer trash names

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like less common names, but I agree that sticking to those out of the top 500 is particularly tough for boys. That said, I like:

Raphael (519)
Lewis (541)
Conrad (577)
Soren (580)
Curtis (612)
Carl (627)
Nelson (633)
Thaddeus (666)
Anders (729)
Henrik (801)
Hugh (836)
Heath (885)
Reuben (906)
Bjorn (953)
Chad (956)
Ira (972)
Seamus (977)

(Watch out for weird spellings of more popular names! There are a lot of those out there on the SSA list.)

Having just watched the stage version of Oklahoma! with the great Hugh Jackman, I vote for Hugh!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Difficult for boys - you may want to reconsider needing to not be in the 500 unless you love Caspian, Koda or Ulises.

Only normal ones not in top 500-

Matthew, Trey, Chad, Craig

Girls are easier

Lindsey, Whitney, Lea #40 , Noa, Tenley, Ellen, Maren, Emory, #141 Kelly, Rory, Cameron, Bethany, Virginia

[Anonymous]

My DD is Ellen. It's not top 500 (734 in 2017), but I know 8 in the DMV younger than 5... Ugh!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is it so important to be out of the top 500? The #500 names are at about 0.03% of all births-- i.e. 1 in 3000 girls or boys (so 1 in 6000 kids.) Even the #200 names only come up in about 1 in 2000 girl or boy births (so 1 in 4000 kids.) Do you really need to be rarer than that?

Why does a name need to be rare or uncommon at all?

This is how helicoptering begins, by obsessing to find a "unique" name, as if that bestows some kind of special on the child. It doesn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Francis
Jasper
Moses
Giles
Gilbert
Edmund
Solomon
Isaac

All passengers on the Mayflower

Isaac is a top 50 name. Moses, Edmund, and Solomon are great ideas! Jasper is a little too hipster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want unpopular but not uncommon names, look to the baby boomers.

Pamela
Tami
Sheila
Susan
Debbie

Keith
Kevin
Craig

Haha...for that matter, for girls: Karen, Jennifer, Peggy, Nancy
for boys: Jason, Timothy, John and Michael (I kid you not, I've never seen a boy named either John or Michael at my kids school...)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it so important to be out of the top 500? The #500 names are at about 0.03% of all births-- i.e. 1 in 3000 girls or boys (so 1 in 6000 kids.) Even the #200 names only come up in about 1 in 2000 girl or boy births (so 1 in 4000 kids.) Do you really need to be rarer than that?

Why does a name need to be rare or uncommon at all?

This is how helicoptering begins, by obsessing to find a "unique" name, as if that bestows some kind of special on the child. It doesn't.

That's what everyone does now, all the names are unique. My kid's classmates:
- Boys: Cole, Emil, Hugh, Jackson, Arjun, Felix, Gray, Landen, Clay, Nevin
- Girls: Addison, Calais, Mara, Lilah, Isabella, Annabelle, Andrea, Hannah, Cailin (the girls names are much more traditionally popular than the boys)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is it so important to be out of the top 500? The #500 names are at about 0.03% of all births-- i.e. 1 in 3000 girls or boys (so 1 in 6000 kids.) Even the #200 names only come up in about 1 in 2000 girl or boy births (so 1 in 4000 kids.) Do you really need to be rarer than that?

Why does a name need to be rare or uncommon at all?

This is how helicoptering begins, by obsessing to find a "unique" name, as if that bestows some kind of special on the child. It doesn't.

Of course it doesn't have to be. But some people want it to be, because [reasons].

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Charity
Chastity
Adolf
Napoleon

They didn't request trailer trash names

I'm more concerned about the two male names on the list. They didn't request dictator names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Of course it doesn't have to be. But some people want it to be, because [reasons].

You had your reasons, we had ours. WTF difference does it make to you, Isabelle's mom?