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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I let my ex pick our third child's name and I hate it and wish I hadn't. It's Isabella. She's one of like, 400 Isabella's in her class. Plus, I don't even like the name. [/quote]

Ok. But has it actually caused problems for her? Because while I understand you don’t like it, it’s not really in the category OP is talking about, of a name so bad you’d have to change it.

Also, I’m sure it feels like it’s way too common to you, probably because you wanted a less common name than your ex, but statistically it’s not that common, despite being a popular name. There’s a lot of diversity in names now and it’s unlikely your DD will struggle with being one of a bunch of Isabellas. [b]I know kids with even more popular names (Charlotte, Emma, Sophia)[/b] and none of them ever complain about this issue.[/quote]

NP. Agree with you, PP. And I'd point out to the person who disliked Isabella as a name because it seems common -- often, when one picks a baby name, the parents have NO idea that it's going to be common among kids in that cohort. [b]We chose a very traditional, simple (not embarrassing or problematic) name for our DD and we knew no one who had a kid with that name---but then we didn't have exact peers who were also having infant DDs around the same time, either. When DD hit preschool age we found out it was one of the most popular names for her age group but couldn't have know this when we named her. We weren't sitting around consulting "popular infant names being given [i]right now[/i]" websites or whatever.[/b] So when you realize, your kid's name you thought was at least not super common is indeed the name quite a few of her classmates will have, well, it's not always like you could have known. (In our case the name is DD's great-grandmother's name so we would have used it, no matter what!)[/quote]

We had the EXACT same experience. Since I have a pretty popular 70's/80's name (think Jennifer) I was trying to avoid this. I wish we had gone ahead and given her the unique middle name we chose as her first. We chose that because I knew someone with the name when I was a kid and I always loved it. It's also the name of a beautiful place we love (although the place is spelled differently). Oh well.

We overcompensated with the second daughter. She has a very classic, serious name that you hear from time to time, but it's not at all popular. She adjusted by giving herself a gender neutral and punchy nickname. Good for her.[/quote]

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