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[quote=Anonymous]So rather than yelling at people for being "uncreative" or whatever, what if we tried to help people figure out if a name is too popular for their purposes?

I do think name popularity is a concern of a lot of people, but everyone has a different threshold. However, as has been discussed in these threads before, no name today even comes close to the popularity of the really popular names from 40 years ago. Today's top girl name (Oliva) is less than a third as popular as Jennifer was in 1980, for instance. That's helpful if you are trying to avoid your kid having a name that they will share with lots of peers, for instance.

So this thread is about numbers, and reasoning. Give us a name you like, and what your popularity threshold is, and we'll try to figure out if you're in the danger zone.

Anyway, maybe this thread will fizzle, but I thought there might be a way to channel the popularity angst of other threads into something that could be useful for other parents choosing names.[/quote]

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