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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fallout from the Jessica / Jennifer / Justin generation [/quote]

I misguided one. Compare the popularity of Jennifer at its height to that of the current #1 girls name, Olivia: https://www.behindthename.com/name/olivia/top/united-states?compare=jennifer&type=percent

Or here's another one -- the super popular in the 70s name Jason compared to the current #1 boys name, Liam: https://www.behindthename.com/name/jason/top/united-states?compare=liam&type=percent

There's just way more diversity in naming now, there are no Jennifers, Jessicas, Justins, or Jasons (what the heck was up with J names in the 70s, actually?). You can use even a very popular name today your kid is very unlikely to share that name with lots of other kids at school, and even less likely to share it with lots of people in their workplace or community as adults.

Also I'm a DC resident and this area has so much ethnic diversity with lots of immigrant or foreign families, resulting in incredibly broad diversity even if people give their kids "common" names from their home country or culture. More than half of my child's classmates have names from a non-Western European naming tradition, including many names I learned for the first time when I met them. I think this is probably true in most large coastal cities in the US, as well as many global capitals.

This seems like a weird thing to worry about.[/quote]

I work in a highly diverse elementary school so it's kind of interesting to watch the concurrent naming trends for UMC suburbanites vs the naming trends for different immigrant communities..

And fun fact, in Ethiopian culture the child's last name is their father's first name I've always thought that was pretty interesting[/quote]

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