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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the saturation level can be higher at micro levels

In my friend group, there are soooo many kids with the same names. Isabelle, Sophia and Ava are just crazy prevalent

In my extended family, there are 3 Audreys (different branches of the family tree)[/quote]

It's funny because in my friend and broader social group, I think there is an imperative to give your kid a less popular name, which has led to funny situations where two friends have each given their babies born a few months a part the same name that is not even on the SSN list, or where another friend gave their kid a name outside the top 1000 and then there was a kid with the same name in our kids' preschool.

Names like Isabelle and Ava are rare in my circle (I know only one of each, and no Sophias at all, except for a cousin who gave her daughter that name but that child is now in college). I don't know any Audreys. I do know a Mia. I think the one top 10 name that is maybe oversaturated is Charlotte, though each of the Charlotte's I know goes by a different name (one Charlotte, one Lottie, one Charlie).

My takeaway is that giving a child a less popular name just for the sake of your kid having a more unusual name might be a fool's errand -- you will be sad if your kid with the name in the 900s winds up in a class with a kid with the same name. Instead, I think you just have to ignore the noise and pick the name you love the most. If your kid winds up sharing that name with other kids, well, at least it's a name you absolutely love, regardless of it's level of popularity.[/quote]

#1 to be fair, most of my friends kids are now teens

#2 since we so rarely even hear our children’s names being used, we would be amused if they ran across another one. They actually both have had other children at their dance school over almost 17 years - interestingly, both the other kids were Hispanic[/quote]

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