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Anonymous wrote:I think giving your child a popular name is 1000x better than giving them a wacky name or a name with a stupid spelling just to be more "unique." OK, so there are a lot of Alexanders. Better than being cute and spelling it Alliksandyr, or that you should instead name him Sauron or Zermatt or Balthazar. Just go for it, OP.

There is an ocean of possibilities between trendy names and unique (weird) names. Names like Laura, Blythe, Melanie, Belinda, Jean, etc.

Just not another Ella or Sophia, please!

I think Ella and Sophia are prettier names than most of the others you listed though. I’d rather be named Ella than Jean or Blythe even if there were 5 others in my class/office etc. I do like Laura though.

Not the point. Jesus... There are thousands of names outside the top 30 is the point.

Yes, there are thousands of names. But none of the ones you chose as examples appeal to me at all. And I’d much rather have a popular name that’s better sounding than have one of those just to be different. That was my point, which you also seemed to miss.

DP. Could you and other PPs disagree without saying “Ella is better than Rumpelstiltskin”?

Why? For what purpose?

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Anonymous wrote:Use what you like. If you don't mind it being popular, that's all that matters.

I guess the kid doesn’t matter.

There's no way to know whether the kid will be one of the people who doesn't mind a popular name, or doesn't mind an unpopular name.

Yup. I disliked my common name, so I went the other direction for my kids. But I knew full well they might hate those names at some point, and I accept that. I did my best based on my experience. That’s all any of us can do.

Personally, I like a traditional, common name. My son is named Elijah just like his grandfather was. I’m completely ok with other kids also having that name.

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Anonymous wrote:I think giving your child a popular name is 1000x better than giving them a wacky name or a name with a stupid spelling just to be more "unique." OK, so there are a lot of Alexanders. Better than being cute and spelling it Alliksandyr, or that you should instead name him Sauron or Zermatt or Balthazar. Just go for it, OP.

There is an ocean of possibilities between trendy names and unique (weird) names. Names like Laura, Blythe, Melanie, Belinda, Jean, etc.

Just not another Ella or Sophia, please!

I think Ella and Sophia are prettier names than most of the others you listed though. I’d rather be named Ella than Jean or Blythe even if there were 5 others in my class/office etc. I do like Laura though.

Not the point. Jesus... There are thousands of names outside the top 30 is the point.

Why does everyone need a unique name? It's okay for people to have the same name. If you like a name, you like a name. It's okay. Why is this so important to those of you who are so worked up about this? It would be one thing if you thought a child would be teased about or unhappy because of a popular name, but it really seems like it's about you. Who cares if you find these names boring? You don't have to use them.

Question and answer bolded. We’ve been through it and have empathy for those kids. Regarding the ones who don’t mind, good for them, but many of us hate it. BTW, my name is beautiful.

I'm so sorry for the difficulty you have faced with your beautiful name, lovingly chosen by your well-meaning parents. I can see why you want to prevent this from happening to others.

Ok, that was funny! It wasn’t lovingly chosen though, and the issue is obviously not it’s beauty.

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Anonymous wrote:I think giving your child a popular name is 1000x better than giving them a wacky name or a name with a stupid spelling just to be more "unique." OK, so there are a lot of Alexanders. Better than being cute and spelling it Alliksandyr, or that you should instead name him Sauron or Zermatt or Balthazar. Just go for it, OP.

There is an ocean of possibilities between trendy names and unique (weird) names. Names like Laura, Blythe, Melanie, Belinda, Jean, etc.

Just not another Ella or Sophia, please!

I think Ella and Sophia are prettier names than most of the others you listed though. I’d rather be named Ella than Jean or Blythe even if there were 5 others in my class/office etc. I do like Laura though.

Not the point. Jesus... There are thousands of names outside the top 30 is the point.

Why does everyone need a unique name? It's okay for people to have the same name. If you like a name, you like a name. It's okay. Why is this so important to those of you who are so worked up about this? It would be one thing if you thought a child would be teased about or unhappy because of a popular name, but it really seems like it's about you. Who cares if you find these names boring? You don't have to use them.

Question and answer bolded. We’ve been through it and have empathy for those kids. Regarding the ones who don’t mind, good for them, but many of us hate it. BTW, my name is beautiful.

I'm so sorry for the difficulty you have faced with your beautiful name, lovingly chosen by your well-meaning parents. I can see why you want to prevent this from happening to others.

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Anonymous wrote:I think giving your child a popular name is 1000x better than giving them a wacky name or a name with a stupid spelling just to be more "unique." OK, so there are a lot of Alexanders. Better than being cute and spelling it Alliksandyr, or that you should instead name him Sauron or Zermatt or Balthazar. Just go for it, OP.

There is an ocean of possibilities between trendy names and unique (weird) names. Names like Laura, Blythe, Melanie, Belinda, Jean, etc.

Just not another Ella or Sophia, please!

I think Ella and Sophia are prettier names than most of the others you listed though. I’d rather be named Ella than Jean or Blythe even if there were 5 others in my class/office etc. I do like Laura though.

Not the point. Jesus... There are thousands of names outside the top 30 is the point.

Why does everyone need a unique name? It's okay for people to have the same name. If you like a name, you like a name. It's okay. Why is this so important to those of you who are so worked up about this? It would be one thing if you thought a child would be teased about or unhappy because of a popular name, but it really seems like it's about you. Who cares if you find these names boring? You don't have to use them.

Question and answer bolded. We’ve been through it and have empathy for those kids. Regarding the ones who don’t mind, good for them, but many of us hate it. BTW, my name is beautiful.

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Anonymous wrote:I think giving your child a popular name is 1000x better than giving them a wacky name or a name with a stupid spelling just to be more "unique." OK, so there are a lot of Alexanders. Better than being cute and spelling it Alliksandyr, or that you should instead name him Sauron or Zermatt or Balthazar. Just go for it, OP.

There is an ocean of possibilities between trendy names and unique (weird) names. Names like Laura, Blythe, Melanie, Belinda, Jean, etc.

Just not another Ella or Sophia, please!

I think Ella and Sophia are prettier names than most of the others you listed though. I’d rather be named Ella than Jean or Blythe even if there were 5 others in my class/office etc. I do like Laura though.

Not the point. Jesus... There are thousands of names outside the top 30 is the point.

Yes, there are thousands of names. But none of the ones you chose as examples appeal to me at all. And I’d much rather have a popular name that’s better sounding than have one of those just to be different. That was my point, which you also seemed to miss.

DP. Could you and other PPs disagree without saying “Ella is better than Rumpelstiltskin”?

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Anonymous wrote:I think giving your child a popular name is 1000x better than giving them a wacky name or a name with a stupid spelling just to be more "unique." OK, so there are a lot of Alexanders. Better than being cute and spelling it Alliksandyr, or that you should instead name him Sauron or Zermatt or Balthazar. Just go for it, OP.

There is an ocean of possibilities between trendy names and unique (weird) names. Names like Laura, Blythe, Melanie, Belinda, Jean, etc.

Just not another Ella or Sophia, please!

I think Ella and Sophia are prettier names than most of the others you listed though. I’d rather be named Ella than Jean or Blythe even if there were 5 others in my class/office etc. I do like Laura though.

Not the point. Jesus... There are thousands of names outside the top 30 is the point.

Why does everyone need a unique name? It's okay for people to have the same name. If you like a name, you like a name. It's okay. Why is this so important to those of you who are so worked up about this? It would be one thing if you thought a child would be teased about or unhappy because of a popular name, but it really seems like it's about you. Who cares if you find these names boring? You don't have to use them.

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Anonymous wrote:I think giving your child a popular name is 1000x better than giving them a wacky name or a name with a stupid spelling just to be more "unique." OK, so there are a lot of Alexanders. Better than being cute and spelling it Alliksandyr, or that you should instead name him Sauron or Zermatt or Balthazar. Just go for it, OP.

There is an ocean of possibilities between trendy names and unique (weird) names. Names like Laura, Blythe, Melanie, Belinda, Jean, etc.

Just not another Ella or Sophia, please!

I think Ella and Sophia are prettier names than most of the others you listed though. I’d rather be named Ella than Jean or Blythe even if there were 5 others in my class/office etc. I do like Laura though.

Not the point. Jesus... There are thousands of names outside the top 30 is the point.

Yes, there are thousands of names. But none of the ones you chose as examples appeal to me at all. And I’d much rather have a popular name that’s better sounding than have one of those just to be different. That was my point, which you also seemed to miss.

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Anonymous wrote:I think giving your child a popular name is 1000x better than giving them a wacky name or a name with a stupid spelling just to be more "unique." OK, so there are a lot of Alexanders. Better than being cute and spelling it Alliksandyr, or that you should instead name him Sauron or Zermatt or Balthazar. Just go for it, OP.

There is an ocean of possibilities between trendy names and unique (weird) names. Names like Laura, Blythe, Melanie, Belinda, Jean, etc.

Just not another Ella or Sophia, please!

I think Ella and Sophia are prettier names than most of the others you listed though. I’d rather be named Ella than Jean or Blythe even if there were 5 others in my class/office etc. I do like Laura though.

Not the point. Jesus... There are thousands of names outside the top 30 is the point.

When you list a bunch of (IMO) ugly names to try and illustrate your point about how there are a lot of good names outside the top 30, it doesn’t work that well. If you had listed names outside the top 30 that were prettier names than Blythe and Jean and Belinda I could’ve agreed much more. Names are subjective but the popular names tend to be popular because more people find them beautiful. Most everyone would agree Ella is a prettier name than Blythe. Sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:I think giving your child a popular name is 1000x better than giving them a wacky name or a name with a stupid spelling just to be more "unique." OK, so there are a lot of Alexanders. Better than being cute and spelling it Alliksandyr, or that you should instead name him Sauron or Zermatt or Balthazar. Just go for it, OP.

There is an ocean of possibilities between trendy names and unique (weird) names. Names like Laura, Blythe, Melanie, Belinda, Jean, etc.

Just not another Ella or Sophia, please!

I think Ella and Sophia are prettier names than most of the others you listed though. I’d rather be named Ella than Jean or Blythe even if there were 5 others in my class/office etc. I do like Laura though.

Not the point. Jesus... There are thousands of names outside the top 30 is the point.

Yes but a lot of the names that aren’t common aren’t common because they’re not that great. That was my point. Belinda?

DP. I love Belinda!

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Anonymous wrote:I think giving your child a popular name is 1000x better than giving them a wacky name or a name with a stupid spelling just to be more "unique." OK, so there are a lot of Alexanders. Better than being cute and spelling it Alliksandyr, or that you should instead name him Sauron or Zermatt or Balthazar. Just go for it, OP.

There is an ocean of possibilities between trendy names and unique (weird) names. Names like Laura, Blythe, Melanie, Belinda, Jean, etc.

Just not another Ella or Sophia, please!

I think Ella and Sophia are prettier names than most of the others you listed though. I’d rather be named Ella than Jean or Blythe even if there were 5 others in my class/office etc. I do like Laura though.

Not the point. Jesus... There are thousands of names outside the top 30 is the point.

Yes but a lot of the names that aren’t common aren’t common because they’re not that great. That was my point. Belinda?

Anonymous wrote:I truly hate the overused top ten names because they are overused. They all sound so stale at this point. I do judge the parents a little bit and think they’re followers. I made a point of naming my kids outside the top 100 names and they all have names you would recognize. Beautiful names, in my opinion.

Look harder, OP. You child is going to be one in a million so name her that way. She deserves better than to be “another ___”.

You could have a top 10 name and still be 1 in a million or you could have a less common name and be very boring/basic. Your name doesn’t bestow any special qualities on you and having a common name doesn’t make a person less special. One of the most interesting/unique people in terms of personality that I’ve ever known was named Mary.

People choose the popular names often because they’re really beautiful names that also work well in multiple languages/cultures (like Sophia or Ava for instance). I don’t know anyone who just looks at a top 10 name list and picks one for their baby. They pick the name because it’s beautiful, meaningful, has a family connection, etc and those names tend to be more common bc of how lovely they are.

Our son is named James. He’s in 5th grade now. May be a common name but he’s always been the only one in his class and it wasn’t important to me that my kids have a particularly unique name.

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Anonymous wrote:I think giving your child a popular name is 1000x better than giving them a wacky name or a name with a stupid spelling just to be more "unique." OK, so there are a lot of Alexanders. Better than being cute and spelling it Alliksandyr, or that you should instead name him Sauron or Zermatt or Balthazar. Just go for it, OP.

There is an ocean of possibilities between trendy names and unique (weird) names. Names like Laura, Blythe, Melanie, Belinda, Jean, etc.

Just not another Ella or Sophia, please!

I think Ella and Sophia are prettier names than most of the others you listed though. I’d rather be named Ella than Jean or Blythe even if there were 5 others in my class/office etc. I do like Laura though.

Not the point. Jesus... There are thousands of names outside the top 30 is the point.