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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like: 
Thea (293) nn of Theodora or Dorothea (both out of the top 1,000). 
Hattie (451) nn Harriet (983) 
Helen (427)
Gloria (556) 
Priscilla (575) 
Ellen (797) 
Arden (952) -- Ive seen this one used by a few preppy families I know, potential to become the next Sloane

I really loved Hattie as a nn but I refuse to name a kid a nn and thought Harriet was too dowdy, even though I loved Harriet the Spy as a kid. We went with Caroline.[/quote]

Is Sloane really all that popular?  I see people reference it as a love-it-or-hate-it preppy name. But I don’t know anyone who named their daughter Sloane, and it’s not one of the most popular baby names on the SSA list.[/quote]

It's climbed up the charts a lot lately, from out of the top 1000 to actually top 200 now (currently #191).

I think because of the emphasis on having an original name, you see a lot more discussion and debate about names much further down the list. More people consider them, whereas it used to be that everyone gave their kids the same 30 names, and then anything else was "unusual". Now most names are relatively unusual. Last year, the top 10 girls names went to a total of 136,261 babies. That sounds like a lot, until you find out that the just the top 4 names in 1980 went to 159,762 babies in 1980. And almost 60,000 of those babies were just named Jennifer.

So yeah, people talk about a lot wider selection of names now, because there is just more diversity overall.[/quote]

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