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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 (babies! They roll their eyes at newborn babies 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.” [b]But I do know multiple parents who fell in love with a name, discovered it was more popular than they were expecting,[/b] 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]

OP.  The name is Charlotte.  The bolded part is us.  I made a list of 15-20 names I liked.  Husband did the same.  It was the only name that overlapped   I personally only know one person with the name Charlotte and that person was an elementary school classmate and I'm in my 30s.    Obviously I know there are lots of others out there and its not like I thought the name was uncommon but I didn't realize it was in the top 5 until I saw people complaining about it on here.    [/quote]

It’s lovely but an extremely popular name.  Prince William and Kate’s daughter’s name.  There is one Charlotte in every baby class my 16 month old has been in.  You didn’t know it was popular because you aren’t around newborns but you soon will be.  [/quote]

oh yeah, I was just thinking the only name that comes close to a Jennifer is Charlotte. We know 4 that are my kids friends (actually friends, same age, etc.). There is no other name that's come up this much.

It is a nice name though!![/quote]

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