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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Use what you like. [b]If you don't mind it being popular, that's all that matters.[/b]
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I guess the kid doesn’t matter.  :roll: [/quote]

The kid will be fine. No child has been harmed by a popular name.[/quote]

There are a number of women on these boards who feel very harmed by their popular names and who are about to tell you AAAAALLLLL about how being Jennifer #4 ruined their childhood.

However, to help OP and to counteract this inevitable response, I will say what I always say in these threads:

Even the most popular names these days are a fraction of the popularity of the names that were very popular in the 70s/80s/90s. A tiny, tiny fraction. There are no names now like Jennifer or Emily Amanda were back then. Here, look at the top 5 names from 1980 and from 2020

1980:
Jennifer (3.3% of all female babies born that year, 58,379 babies with that name)
Amanda (2.0%, 35,817)
Jessica (1.9%, 33,924)
Melissa (1.8%, 31,639)
Sarah (1.4%, 25,758)

2020:
Olivia (1.0%, 17,535)
Emma (.9%, 15,581)
Ava (.7%, 13,084)
Charlotte (.7%, 13,003)
Sophia (.7%, 12,976)

Or, to frame it differently, if Olivia were exactly as popular in 1980 as it was in 2020 (when it was the most popular girls name) it would have ranked... 14th. And Sophia, Charlotte, and Ava would not even crack the top 20. About as popular as names like Christina, Rachel, Amber, and Jaimie. Not total unknown names, but also not names I associate with ubiquity.

OP, you're fine. Go with the name you like and can agree on and that sounds good with your last name. [/quote]Names tend to cluster by demographic, so even those 0.9% names can be more like 5-8% of your child's grade or social group.  They're not evenly distributed.[/quote]

Uh, 5-8%? There is no name that popular in my geographic or demographic area. That's one in 20 kids. I can't think of a single name that popular. Can you?

Also, the most popular names in my area are not top 10 names, specifically because people avoid those names because they want a more unique name. I know three Josephines in my DC's age cohort, for instance. Two Beatrices. Everett is very popular. So is Max. I only know one Isabelle, and one Evelyn. No Olivias and Sophias. ''

OP will almost certainly be going against the grain in giving her child a name that is nationally popular. It is extremely unlikely to cause any issue for her child. Her kid might run into other kids with the same name. But that could happen even if she chose a less popular name.[/quote]

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