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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When 1/3 of your cheerleading squad has the same name, it may change your mind.[/quote]

This can't/doesn't happen anymore because no name now is as popular as the popular names were when you were in high school.

I guess that's what this is, isn't it? A generation of Sarahs/Jennifers/Emilys/Amandas/Rebeccas/etc. working out their insecurity over being "one of many" instead of being "special" by trying to give their kids really unique names?

It's interesting to me because while I have name that was common in the 80s, my husband has a very unique name and hated it. HATED. And by unique, I don't mean hard to pronounce or weird. It's a normal name that might have been considered normal in the late 1800s or early 1900s. He got teased a lot. He is a grown up and made peace with it, but as an adolescent, it was genuinely really difficult for him and he still kind of resents his parents for doing it. So when we named our kids, we looked for names in the middle -- not in the top 50 or so, but we weren't looking for something so unique there would only ever be one. That way they can be individuals, but we're not foisting a whole personality on them. We gave them names they could make their own.[/quote]

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