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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even with unusual names sometimes you get unlucky. My DD has two Selmas in her class.  What are the odds of that? [/quote]

This! I have a Zoe and we’ve never been in class or activity with another Zoe. Yet my kids have been in class with multiples of far less common names. Like you, OP, it was one of the only names DH and I both liked. She is 11, by the way, and NO regrets![/quote]

My goddaughter has a very unusual name -- I did not even realize it was a name before it was her name, and the only other person I've ever heard of with the name is a fictional character, and I only learned of that character after she'd been given the name. It's a pretty name, but extremely unusual.

A few months ago I met a kid close to her age with the same name. It turns out they are in the same extracurricular. They now both go by [incredibly unusual first name]+[last initial]. And they even look kind of a like! What are the odds?!

Plus, I think it's particularly annoying for her parents because they specifically wanted a very unusual name. Whereas I think when you give your kid a name in the top 100 names or so, you just kind of assume you will meet other kids with that name and it's not devastating when it happens. It's just [shrug] we obviously have similar taste in names! And then you move on.[/quote]

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