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Anonymous wrote:DON'T DO IT!!!

If you are at all worried about the popularity issue, don't do it, you will be miserable....I'm speaking from experience as the mother of a 9 month old girl Charlie. I had serious reservations about the name when we gave it to her due to the popularity, but DH really wanted it, and now I totally and completely regret it!

And last week when it came out that the new princess is a Charlotte, I seriously almost cried. (I had worried about it Kate's whole pregnancy and my nanny was like "how did you know?" when they did end up naming her Charlotte!) The whole day the news broke, I called my daughter by our #2 name!....until it upset my 4.5yr old DS and then I had to stop. I was seriously hoping perhaps I could use my DH's dislike of the royal family (he is a Brit), to convince him that we should change her name!

Our DS has a VERY uncommon first name, and while we didn't set out to choose an uncommon name, I've really enjoyed it. So having a Charlotte now is painful!

yes, but even the most popular names now, there's just one or two of them in any school. Charlotte will never be Hanna or MacKenzie. Just too much variety now. I think it and Charlie are lovely names - and so do a lot of other people (hence the popularity). But that mostly means, people will like your kid's name when they hear it. And how nice that your daughter is NOT named for an adulterer who treated his very young and silly-headed wife with no sympathy or understanding (and who could be pressured to marry this young and silly-headed wife for the looks of it).

Why do you say this? Not my experience at all. My dd is in fourth grade, and there are five Graces in her grade and there were four Emmas in her ballet class (of 10 girls). My son has four Wills in his grade and three Jacksons (first grade). There was plenty of variety in the seventies and eighties too, but if you get a popular name, there will be multiple in a grade.

OP, FWIW I agree and think what you're seeing is just anomolous. For example, my name is Caitlin, which was not common at all until I was born apparently. There were 5 other Caitlins in my high school but I have never known another before or since. Sometimes there is just a weird constellation of names. Its actually making me feel better the points about Jennifer and Hannah and what not.

To the DONT DO IT poster, I appreciate your advice but I think you need to let it go . That's who she is now! Pursuing a name change 9 months in seems a little kooky to me!

Thanks all.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DON'T DO IT!!!

If you are at all worried about the popularity issue, don't do it, you will be miserable....I'm speaking from experience as the mother of a 9 month old girl Charlie. I had serious reservations about the name when we gave it to her due to the popularity, but DH really wanted it, and now I totally and completely regret it!

And last week when it came out that the new princess is a Charlotte, I seriously almost cried. (I had worried about it Kate's whole pregnancy and my nanny was like "how did you know?" when they did end up naming her Charlotte!) The whole day the news broke, I called my daughter by our #2 name!....until it upset my 4.5yr old DS and then I had to stop. I was seriously hoping perhaps I could use my DH's dislike of the royal family (he is a Brit), to convince him that we should change her name!

Our DS has a VERY uncommon first name, and while we didn't set out to choose an uncommon name, I've really enjoyed it. So having a Charlotte now is painful!

yes, but even the most popular names now, there's just one or two of them in any school. Charlotte will never be Hanna or MacKenzie. Just too much variety now. I think it and Charlie are lovely names - and so do a lot of other people (hence the popularity). But that mostly means, people will like your kid's name when they hear it. And how nice that your daughter is NOT named for an adulterer who treated his very young and silly-headed wife with no sympathy or understanding (and who could be pressured to marry this young and silly-headed wife for the looks of it).

Why do you say this? Not my experience at all. My dd is in fourth grade, and there are five Graces in her grade and there were four Emmas in her ballet class (of 10 girls). My son has four Wills in his grade and three Jacksons (first grade). There was plenty of variety in the seventies and eighties too, but if you get a popular name, there will be multiple in a grade.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DON'T DO IT!!!

If you are at all worried about the popularity issue, don't do it, you will be miserable....I'm speaking from experience as the mother of a 9 month old girl Charlie. I had serious reservations about the name when we gave it to her due to the popularity, but DH really wanted it, and now I totally and completely regret it!

And last week when it came out that the new princess is a Charlotte, I seriously almost cried. (I had worried about it Kate's whole pregnancy and my nanny was like "how did you know?" when they did end up naming her Charlotte!) The whole day the news broke, I called my daughter by our #2 name!....until it upset my 4.5yr old DS and then I had to stop. I was seriously hoping perhaps I could use my DH's dislike of the royal family (he is a Brit), to convince him that we should change her name!

Our DS has a VERY uncommon first name, and while we didn't set out to choose an uncommon name, I've really enjoyed it. So having a Charlotte now is painful!

yes, but even the most popular names now, there's just one or two of them in any school. Charlotte will never be Hanna or MacKenzie. Just too much variety now. I think it and Charlie are lovely names - and so do a lot of other people (hence the popularity). But that mostly means, people will like your kid's name when they hear it. And how nice that your daughter is NOT named for an adulterer who treated his very young and silly-headed wife with no sympathy or understanding (and who could be pressured to marry this young and silly-headed wife for the looks of it).

Anonymous wrote:DON'T DO IT!!!

If you are at all worried about the popularity issue, don't do it, you will be miserable....I'm speaking from experience as the mother of a 9 month old girl Charlie. I had serious reservations about the name when we gave it to her due to the popularity, but DH really wanted it, and now I totally and completely regret it!

And last week when it came out that the new princess is a Charlotte, I seriously almost cried. (I had worried about it Kate's whole pregnancy and my nanny was like "how did you know?" when they did end up naming her Charlotte!) The whole day the news broke, I called my daughter by our #2 name!....until it upset my 4.5yr old DS and then I had to stop. I was seriously hoping perhaps I could use my DH's dislike of the royal family (he is a Brit), to convince him that we should change her name!

Our DS has a VERY uncommon first name, and while we didn't set out to choose an uncommon name, I've really enjoyed it. So having a Charlotte now is painful!

Anonymous wrote:I know one ,5 in DC. Look, if you like it and think it sounds cool and unique, then thousands of others others will too. We share a culture, and this includes preferences for certain names each decade. Our moms thought Jennifer sounded cool, and they were shocked to discover 10 others in their kid's K class - turns out all the other child bearing women of their age thought it cool too (it will never be this bad - too much variety now).