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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I dunno, define normal. I always hated boring, common names (as I have a boring, common name, think Sarah) and so I wanted to give my kids names that were a bit more interesting and unusual (though I do not, for the record, like weird spellings).

Well, my son is Sebastian (Beautiful! Unusual! Delightful! A variety of nicknames!) and it turns out EVERYONE in my neighborhood named their son Sebastian. There's like four of them in 10 block radius. There's literally three white boys in my kid's class and two of them are named Sebastian.

Cross another parenting goal of the list.   :(

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I think this happens a lot. A whole bunch of educated millennial women with those common, boring names had kids and started looking further down the name lists. They were never going to have a Tragedeigh or Jayden or even at this point a Sophia so were all looking at the same band of, ""real" names with correct spelling that appear fairly unique." But these groups also cluster and live near one another so you get these hyper local micro-trends with these names that [i]shouldn't [/i] feel like they're everywhere. [/quote]

Yes, I have been surprised at several names that there are multiples of at our elementary school even though they are statistically much less common. But I think they are trendy with a very specific demographic and thus multiple families in our neighborhood chose the name thinking it would be unique. It has backfired in a surprising way (people do get over it).

My kids both have names in the top 50. One of them (with a top 30 name) has one other girl in the school with the name but she goes by a different nickname, and the other has never met another kid with the same name. I almost think we've benefitted from the cultural pressure to pick a unique name, because I sense that a lot of parents stay away from names ranked as highly as my kids' names are, so in a weird way the statistical popularity of our kids' names has made them less common where we live.

I am curious as to where all the kids are with my kids' names, though. I wonder if we moved to some other region if suddenly our kids' names would be everywhere? We live in a UMC, well educated corner of DC (that is also quite international, which I think adds to the diversity of names here). If we moved to a suburb of Chicago would it be a different story? I don't know.[/quote]

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