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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]honestly, whatever name you choose, it may end up being trendy.  We named our son Jonah, thinking it was a traditional yet sort of unique name, and now we know at least 4 other jonahs, and inevitably when we're out somewhere I'll hear random parents calling for their Jonahs.   Bums me out a little but I loved the name and love it still, so it is what it is.  [/quote]

I have a 9mo Jonah and I've never met another one or heard anyone say it on the playground (in the past 4 years that I've been going to playgrounds) ... but you're right that any name you choose can become popular or trendy after you choose it. I tried to hedge my bets by doing my SSA website research and we STILL have ended up with some names in the mix that would be considered trendy (though not made up like the -adens). E.g. Harper, my oldest son's middle name ... wasn't in the top 1000 in 2007 when he was born, so we thought we were safe. Ha. Once we got to Jonah I was having such a hard time finding a name I liked that I had to let it go about the popularity. The truth is that even the most popular names are not as popular now as they were 30 years ago. My oldest's preschool has a huge variety of names -- there aren't two of anything in any class and there aren't that many repeats in the whole school. If you want to avoid the very most popular ones, check the SSA site. They also have a function where you can track the popularity of a name over time, so you can see if a name you have chosen is trending up or down. It's pretty interesting. The name Jonah, for example, started trending up in 1993 -- after the movie Sleepless in Seattle was released (the little boy in the movie was named Jonah). There are a lot of examples like that where you can point to a specific reason why a name got popular. [/quote]

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