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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Use what you like. [b]If you don't mind it being popular, that's all that matters.[/b]
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I guess the kid doesn’t matter.  :roll: [/quote]

There's no way to know whether the kid will be one of the people who doesn't mind a popular name, or doesn't mind an unpopular name.  [/quote]

Yup. I disliked my common name, so I went the other direction for my kids. But I knew full well they might hate those names at some point, and I accept that.  I did my best based on my experience. That’s all any of us can do.[/quote]

Agreed, which is why posters saying they roll their eyes at kids with more popular names ([b]babies! They roll their eyes at newborn babies[/b] fir having perfectly lovely names that happen to be more common) is obnoxious to me. I don’t know a single parent what was like “whatever let’s just pick one of these top ten names out if a hat, I could care less.” But I do know multiple parents who fell in love with a name, discovered it was more popular than they were expecting, and went with it anyway because that didn’t seem like a good enough reason to give up their favorite name.

Criticizing that seems ridiculous to me, and does seem like pushing variety and novelty for the sake of itself.[/quote]

Calm down Ms. Lovejoy, PPs are clearly rolling their eyes at the parents.[/quote]

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