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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just stay out of the top 100 and away from the made-up names and you’ll be fine.

Laura, Mary, Blythe, Daisy, Amy, Susannah, Melanie, Christina, Amaya, Molly... I could go on and on.  So many great names without being overused or weird.

My three girls names are on my list, btw.  [/quote]

The thing is... I don't love any of those names except Daisy, which my DH nixed (he'd do Margaret but I didn't trust his family to actually call her Daisy and I don't actually like Margaret as a name, so).

I spent a lot of time making lists of names outside the top 100 but in the end, the names I like best were all in the 20-80 range. My DH only liked one name outside the top 100 -- June -- but it didn't sound great with our last name.

I'm sure some people think I'm basic for choosing a name in the top 100. We agonized a bit because I didn't want a name that as "too popular" but I also wanted a name we both really loved and connected to, and we honestly could not find that in these other names. I am sensitive to people who criticize people for choosing more popular names or who say that we didn't put enough thought into the name because we did, and I think we chose a really beautiful, fitting name for our baby with a wonderful meaning, that sounds really good with her other names as well as with our names (I love how our names all sound together on our holiday card, for instance).

We've never met another kid with the same name (she's 6 now). When she was in preschool, there was a child in another class with the same name but that girl went by a nickname we've never used. She probably will meet people with her name in her life because it's not that rare, but she's definitely not going to have a "Jennifer in the 80s" experience. And after all that agonizing, we definitely made the right choice in choosing one of the more popular names on her list. I'm really glad we didn't go with one of the names we felt less enthusiastic about just to stay out of the top 100.[/quote]

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