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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this some kind of personality disorder? These people who are obsessed with the idea that every baby must get a unique, rare name? That if your child shares a name with other children it means you have ruined your child’s life. Although honestly, many of these comments aren’t even about the baby. It’s more like you’re all mad because OP and people like her have failed to entertain you or interest you with their name choices. Why is that important? If you don’t hear a novel baby name every day, you’re mad? I do not get it.

I can’t figure out another explanation for why there are 8 pages of comments berating OP for wanting to use one of two popular (and pretty!) baby names, when one of the first things OP said was “I know they are popular.”

Seriously, she knows. She doesn’t care— these are the names she likes. Do you honestly think she or her child would be better off if she picked some name that she didn’t feel connected to or didn’t like as well? Think this through. You are all being insane. Stop trying to shove your values onto someone who doesn’t share them, and maybe take a minute to ask yourself why “giving babies original names” is so important to you. I think a lot of you need therapy because this is honestly weird.[/quote]

People are just cautioning OP not to saddle her daughter with a fad name.  And that’s all Sophia and Charlotte are - names that are current fad. No is is saying name her something made up or unique - just not a name where there will be millions with her first name in her generation.

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Both of these names have been within the top 100 or 200 names for over 100 years. That's the opposite of a fad. A baby Charlotte or Sophie is likely to run into children with her name, as well as adults and older relatives. She is likely to encounter children with her name even once she is an adult. This is the experience of millions of people all over the world every day. People are very into using different names right now. One could argue that [i]that [/i]is the trend. Giving your kid one of these names is literally never trendy.

If OP was thinking about naming her child after a Game of Thrones character, maybe I get the "concern". But she's not. These are classic names that have been popular in English-speaking countries for over a century (probably longer, but I could only look them up on the SSA site going back to 1900). Cautioning someone against naming their kid Charlotte or Sophie is deranged. [/quote]

My name is Sophie. I was named for my father's aunt, who was named for her grandmother. Hardly a fad![/quote]

Oh, come on!  If you’re old enough to post here, it wasn’t a fad when you were born.  That’s really not a hard concept to grasp, PP.  If you are a Susan born in 1960, your name was part of the fad.  If you’re baby is named Susan today, you’re clearly not.  [/quote]

You're completely missing PP's point. A name like "Jennifer" is a fad. Sophie and Charlotte have been top 100, common names for hundreds of years. [/quote]

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