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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any common name. I ruled out the names of every person I had ever met. Anyone can be an Emma, Linda, Allison, Elizabeth, Megan, Ann, Jasmine, Naomi, Susan. My kids have never been in a class with anyone who shared their names or seen their names on a keychain or even met any living namesake.[/quote]

As someone with a very unusual name (never met anyone else w my name and I’m 37 and have lived all over the country), I can tell you it’s not that special. Mostly it’s annoying. I’d rather be another Sarah or Mary than have my “oh so special” unusual name. My parents have very common names themselves so I guess they thought of that as a negative like you do but I see their selection of my name as trying way too hard to be different at the expense of their child (me :)) since I resented always having to have a discussion w everyone I meet about my name (is it short for something? Where did it come from/why did your parents name you that? Etc)[/quote]

Yes, my best friend agrees with you!  My husband has a very common name so he wanted to avoid anything too common.  With one kid we avoided top 100 but he has still had a classmate share his name.  With the other we picked something top 50 (can't remember where exactly) but it has two spellings, both of which are in the top 50 so really it is much higher if you combined them.  Oh well, suits her perfectly!  Here's the thing--if it is a nice name, people are going to use it.  If you choose a very uncommon name, it is uncommon because most people don't like it enough to use it.

As for off-limits, we avoided a lot of names that would have created unfortunate initials as well as some of those "a Tom beat me up as a kid" type names.  And ex-boyfriends and girlfriends, though I actually LOVE DH's college girlfriend's name!  Oh, and names that would be mispronounced a lot!  We considered a name with a final syllable that could be pronounced LINE or LEEN.  Nope. [/quote]

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