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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Remember that the name will always be popular in her generation.  There will be three other women with her name in the old peoples home.  Ask your mother or mother-in-law whose name is Susan what that feels like.

DH really wanted to name our DD Sophia and I mixed it based only on its popularity.  In  hospital he mentioned that he wanted to name the baby Sophia and the nurses all said, “Not another Sophia!”  DD is 15 months and we’ve never been in any class where there isn’t at least two Sophia’s.

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When I am in an old folks home I will not give ONE SH*T if there are 10 other women with my name.  What a stupid thing to worry about.

(My name is Elizabeth, top 20 pretty much always.  My life is fine I promise)[/quote]

I frequent these baby name threads enough to recognize this "not another Sophia" anecdote having appeared in one or two other such threads. PP loves trotting it out. She's a baby naming expert based on her experience naming one child who is not yet 2 years old (but who apparent has been in multiple "classes" despite not yet being able to speak in sentences and the fact she was born during a pandemic).

I am mildly skeptical that this anecdote, or that PP's alleged child, is real at this point, or not extremely exaggerated.[/quote]

I'm a Sarah and the popularity of my name has literally never bothered me. Ever. I always had another Sarah in my grade (maybe not in my class, but they were around...) but it was so far from a big deal as to be something I only learned I should care about when I started visiting DCUM message boards. [/quote]

+1. My name was pretty popular in the 90s and there was always at least one other girl in my grade. It was a bit annoying (mostly because the other one in middle school really got on my nerves) but didn't make me hate my name.

We named our daughter Sarah because we loved the name, it was the name of DH's great-grandmother, and it was classic without being currently super popular. We also struggled a lot with infertility so we liked the connection to Sarah in the Bible. Then I go on forums and see people saying that parents who name their kids that obviously put no thought into the name at all because it's so boring and blah. We've met one or two other little Sarahs and DD is always excited when that happens. [/quote]

Well, as the PP Sarah, my congrats to you on your little Sarah. At this point the name is exactly what you say — classic but not trendy. [b]It’s also super easy to say in most languages and I’ve never run into any problems introducing myself.[/b] [/quote]

NP I am also a Sarah and I really started appreciating the bolded when traveling and living abroad. It's also nice that it is used (or a variation) in so many cultures. I've had many, many people strike up conversation with an, "oh, my wife/grandmother/sister/etc. is named Sarah. Beautiful name." It travels well.

FWIW I only ever had one other Sara(h) in my grade growing up and we ran in totally different circles. Met others with the name, but it wasn't all that prevalent in my area and I didn't really care, possibly because a lot of my friends also had very popular names (in my case, Kate/Katie/Caitlin and its various spellings, Lauren, and Jennifer were by far the most common). [/quote]

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