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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because it's a striver culture.[/quote]

Ding ding. People in DC always want to be better than other people, even at something like naming their kids, which is the kind of thing that should just be individual and not competitive. But people in this area will turn anything into a competition -- naming children, composting, going to restaurants, reading the news. We all know those people who are always trying to one-up everyone over everything and DC has more of them than other places.

For those of us who don't like competition, it takes effort and practice to learn to just ignore these people and not get drawn into their dumb games. My kid has a top 30 name, it's perfect for her and she loves it, zero regrets. You do you but we're fine over here.[/quote]

Multiple people have repeatedly told you we did not like our experience with our super common names as kids. This is hardly “striving” to want to not make your kid have the same crappy experience. [/quote]

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