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[quote=Anonymous]I think it's also a Millennial name -- if you look at it's popularity, it peaked in the late 70s/early 80s but remained pretty popular (top 100) until 2002. Lots of Millennial women named Christina (and Christine, Christy, Chrissy, etc.)

I think if you love a name, use it. There's a weird thing that happens around naming babies where people start thinking about names in the macro sense like is this name too popular? too trendy? not popular enough? etc. But when you meet a person and they tell you their name, do you immediately think about it's relatively popularity levels for their generation or where it now sits on the SSN charts? Some might, but I don't. I only think about whether it suits them or not, or whether I like it, find it easy or pleasant to say, or if it's a name I've heard before, I might think of others I know with it. That's it. I never think about it the way people seem to think about baby names. It's very personal and individual.

Which is a long way of saying that if you love a name, I would not worry if it was "Gen X" or what it's popularity was (now or in the past). I'd want to make sure I had mostly good associations with it and I might test it out for a bit to see if it felt right. But the fact that it was popular in the 70s would be neither a strike for nor against.[/quote]

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