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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 ([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]

+1. We roll our eyes at the parents and feel bad for the child.  There’s a world of difference between unique names and underused names.  Pick an underused name. [/quote]

Yes, pitying a newborn child for receiving [gasp!] a top 10 name isn't obnoxious at all. Some people don't want to "pick an underused name." Some people want to name their baby after their beloved grandmother Elizabeth. Some people met their spouse in an English Lit course and want to name their kids after Charlotte and Emily Bronte (and to this lovely couple I would say "Don't forget Anne! Everyone always forgets Anne!"). Some people are are trying to recreate the Golden Girls and decided to start with Sofia because she was the oldest, but don't worry -- Dorothy and Blanche and Rose are less common names!

What if someone ran around harassing you? Pick a more common name! Pick a classic name! Pick a name I've heard of! It's obnoxious. People have their own reasons for picking names, they might not match up with yours. Live and let live.

(What are you going to do if your kid's name suddenly gets really popular?? That happened to my name, actually. It was in the 400s or 500s when my parents picked it, and became a top 10 name within a few years. I guess they were at the cutting edge of a name trend and had no idea. Good luck because I think your brain is going to melt if that happens with your kids' names.)[/quote]

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