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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can only answer for myself, and I personally have not noticed this more in DC than in other areas (and I have a pretty spread out friend group).

But for me - my name is Jennifer. Super, super common for women my age. I never have liked my name, and I hated as a kid always having to be Jen R. In fact, I once went to a summer camp where there was another Jen R. and I basically had to go by Jenny which is a name I hated even more. I hated having as many as THREE Jennifers in my class (the actual classroom, not the year). It just always felt boring and dull, and I found the endless confusion over which Jennifer to be really annoying, and almost like erasing? Dramatic, sure, but that's how it felt as a kid.

Flash forward to me naming my kids - I did not want to give them a common name. Unfortunately, my husband and I have really different taste in names, and so compromises needed to happen. We've got one kid with a super one of a kind name that we both happened to fall in love with, and one with a less common, but not unheard of, name. But for our other kid, the only name we could agree on is in the top 25 (but not the top 10) so we went with it.

There's another one in his grade. So now he's Leo S. and it REALLY bothers me.

(Actual names changed)[/quote]

PP to add - I also have a cousin who gave her son a name that was really unusual at the time, and then EXPLODED in popularity like 3-5 years later. Literally went from not being in the top 100 to being in the top 10 in that time. She was pissed and I thought that was really fair.[/quote]

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