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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looking up by region is really interesting and I think pretty useful. I was a little shocked to see just how few Olivias were born specifically in DC in 2020- it's only 53. Given the overall number of births, that doesn't seem so terrible. It's not my name choice (and I'm having a boy), but if I loved Olivia I would find that to be encouraging even though most of DCUM would trash it as way too popular, though it does seem to be reliably the number 1 name across states for 2020.

I do worry about specific populations. I'm Jewish and I plan to use a Jewish name, but I don't feel like I have a good way of knowing what names are popular in this community because Jews make up a fairly small percent of the population, so even a fairly popular name won't show up in the SSN data.[/quote]

I don't know about popularity data, but there are definitely websites that talk about Jewish names for babies and will give you lists.

If you belong to a synagogue, you might also want to look at names from birth announcements, as well as recent bat and bar mitzvahs as these will give you a sense of which names are popular within our specific Jewish community. If you don't go to synagogue, you might still be able to find some of this for your area by looking online. Or try running names by other Jewish people you know!

But truthfully, you might be better off than people were 50 years ago. A lot of names that I think of as Jewish names are now very popular among non-Jews. Not the old Hebrew names, but names that I used to think of as quintessential Jewish -- Ruth, Thea, Isaac, Jonah, Levi. I know non-Jewish kids with all these names now.[/quote]

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