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[quote=Anonymous]The thing about random assignment is that it's random.

My daughter is a Zoe, so one of those names where you have to watch for Zoeys. The only time she's ever encountered another Zoe(y) was in her dance class. At school, none, in any grade and there never have been (smallish daycare/private school with maybe 300 kids). We've encountered more adults with the name than kids, which is weird.

A friend has a Beatrice, and there have been dupes for that name in our school. My son was in a class with 3 Benjamins, my daughter is in a class with 2 Emmetts, and there were 2 Vivians for a while. A few Santinos. None of these are names that you'd necessarily think of as weird or rare, but none are names you'd expect to see duplicated in a class of 20 kids (except maybe Benjamin).

As a kid with an extremely popular 80s name, I honestly didn't and don't care that there are others who share my name, but I know people do.

In any case, to your question, yes -- when picking my daughters name, I knew it would be popular and I factored in how much more popular it would be when you count all the Zoeys as well. And Eve is a nice name and I don't think I've *ever* met an Eve, so... there's one piece of anecdata for you. [/quote]

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