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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are four little girls named Ellie in DS’s preschool class.  One Ellie, one Ella they call Ellie, one Elisabeth they call Ellie and one Elianna they call Ellie.  It’s confusing and annoying.  [/quote]

And I'm sure the parents who named their kid Elianna though they were being very original!

This is one reason why I don't think Charlotte is a big deal in terms of popularity. It's not really that popular numbers-wise, and it's really these name groups that cause the bigger issues, the Ellies, Evies and Evas, Bellas, Izzies, Maddies, etc. The nicknames for Charlotte are not common and it's not a name that has very similar other names or different spellings.

I've actually seen people who study this stuff talk about how it's actually somewhat impossible to get true popularity lists for this reason. Even if you group similar names together in your rankings, you can't account for what people actually call their kids. And so many names have multiple nicknames (like Elizabeth -- it could go super common with an Ellie or fairly rare with a Beth) so you can't even take a reasonable guess.

My general opinion is that standalone names like Charlotte will ultimately wear more easily than names that are part of a group like Evelyn/Evangeline/Eve/Eva/Everly. Even though some of the names in that group are well down the list. Obviously any El- name is out if you want to avoid name overlap, unless you are assigning a non-Ellie nickname at birth and plan to only call her that.

It's not just a question of picking an underused name. I know two people who chose names outside top 1000 for their DDs, but used more common nicknames and now they are of course one of a few in their preschool classes. Meanwhile my DD has a top 30 name and never runs into others.[/quote]

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