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[quote=Anonymous]If you care about selecting a name that is not too popular, do you look at the popularity of related or similar-sounding names when you make your choice? How important is this?

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We have selected the name Eve for our soon-to-be born DD. We were looking for a short, easy-to-pronounce name that was both "classic" sounding but also outside of the top 200-300 names to avoid running into too many others with that name. Eve seemed like the perfect fit, plus works great with the family name we want for a middle and with our last name.

But when we shared the name very selectively with a few people, two of them (who knew we were looking for a name that was not too popular) noted that there are a lot of similar names that are popular right now, some of which might even use Eve as a nickname: Evelyn, Eva, Evangeline. And then there is Ava which has different vowels but might be similar. I feel dumb that I didn't even think about this but am now totally rethinking this name.

One of the people who mentioned this to me said that she wished she'd thought about this more when she named her DD, who has an unusual name (not even in the top 1000 when she was born, now in like the 800s or something) but she didn't think about similar sounding names or nicknames and now on playgrounds it feels like a lot of kids have similar sounding names and it just doesn't feel as unique.

So I guess I'm curious what others think, if you've had this experience, how much I should worry about it. Baby is due in less than a month and I was happy to feel like we had the name all squared away and now suddenly I'm having tons of doubts. Name popularity genuinely matters to me.[/quote]

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