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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Why should they care what someone as judgmental as you cares what they name their child? It’s not necessary to pick an underused name. Just pick a name you love.[/quote]

DP. They shouldn’t care about the PP, they should care about their child and make a less selfish decision.[/quote]

It is not selfish to pick a popular name. Why would someone picking a popular name suggest they don't care about their child? not everyone wants an unpopular name. Not everyone cares so much. As has been pointed out multiple times on this thread, it's entirely possible to have a top 10 name and still not meet many other kids w that name as even the popular names aren't actually that common. If it needs to be said again, I'll say that I have 3 kids (2 of whom are in elementary school and participate in multiple extracurricular activities) and only know a few kids w/ names on the top 10 list: we know 3 Olivias, 1 Oliver, 1 Liam, 1 Benjamin, and 1 family that has both a Henry and a Charlotte. That is it. We don't know a single baby/kid named Ava, Sophia, Isabella, Mia, Amelia, Emma, Noah, Elijah, William, James, Alexander, Evelyn, or Harper. Not a one. I have a cousin named Emma who is 25, a friend named Sophia who is in her late 30s as I am, and I know several adult Williams and James and Alexanders. Otherwise, we don't hear any of those names! We hear unusual names or names from different languages/cultures often but hardly ever hear top 10 names. It's just not the issue many posters here seem to think it is.[/quote]

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