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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We named our daughters well and were smart enough to use SSA name trend data to avoid HarperAvaSophiaOlivia. [b]To be honest Im not sure why so many supposedly educated couples still pick something that's been in the top 20 for several years and then get all mad when there are one or two other kids in their kid's class with the same name.[/b] I mean, the data has been published every year for decades.[/quote]
This sounds super judge-y, PP. To be honest, DH and I also checked the SSA name trend data and looked up every name we were considering. We both had very common names growing up and there were always multiple kids in each of our classes that shared our names. We really wanted to give our kids names that would be theirs and not something they would need to use their last initial with all the time. But I don't blame people for not knowing it exists or checking it before choosing their kid's name. I'm not sure everyone would pick a unique name for their kid, even if they did use SSA to know which names were in the top 20. You choose a name for your kid based on all sorts of factors and the popularity of the name might not be high on a couple's priority list as a reason not to use a name, even if they'd prefer not to have one of 4 Olivias in a class. Or maybe they didn't realize how much of a pain it would be to yell "Noah!" across a playground and have 3 kids respond. We can't anticipate everything about the names we pick for our kids, including how the popularity (or lack thereof) of their name might play out in day-to-day life. Let's not judge each other over SSA data.

There are also names that might be common in sub-communities, but not reflected in SSA data. There are a ton of Ashers in my Jewish community's preschool right now.[/quote]

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