Anonymous wrote:Both are super popular. DH wanted to name our baby Sophia and I wanted a different name. When we asked opinions of the nurses at the hospital, everyone basically said, “Not another Sophia!”. We went with my choice with Sophia as a middle name.

When I had my DS's first ped visit after his birth, the pediatrician said "oh my, another Alexander". -.-

Whatever. He's 22 now. (yrs, not months) He likes his name, and has never been called Alex. Nor had a problem with "another". Pick what you like.


I vote Charlotte, btw.

Both are super popular. DH wanted to name our baby Sophia and I wanted a different name. When we asked opinions of the nurses at the hospital, everyone basically said, “Not another Sophia!”. We went with my choice with Sophia as a middle name.

Anonymous wrote:My son is 5. In his preschool class, he had at one point three girls named Kennedy, girl Dylan and boy Dylan.

My 8 year old has two Elijahs and two Grants.

As a PP noted, you can’t predict which names will be popular in your kids circle. Pick a name you love.

Both are great choices, OP.

I never thought of Blake as a super popular name, but it seems like there are numerous male and female Blakes currently in second grade at our school.

Anonymous wrote:Both names seem very 2015 to me, but I think you should go with Charlotte so you can call her Cha Cha.

Ooh, that’s a cute nn!

Both names seem very 2015 to me, but I think you should go with Charlotte so you can call her Cha Cha.

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Anonymous wrote:Sophie is overused.

So is charlotte.

Why don't people say this about boys names? Everyone I Greg up with was named Matt or Ryan. Who cares.

I care. The Ryan-explosion was ridiculous about 20 years ago especially in my Jewish school.

Personally, I do an internal eye roll when someone tells me their child’s name and it’s ridiculously popular.

You need to take a hard look at why you care so much about what other people name their kids. Seriously, what a nasty way to go though life. Find some inner happiness and you might not be such a negative hag.

Oh you can learn to stop being a sheep and actually think about your child’s name. If you think I’m the only one who hears “”Sophia” and doesn’t think, “”yeah, you’re that type”, you are dead wrong.

My name is Sophia. What exactly "type" are my parents exactly? Because I guarantee they have a whole lot more class than you do sweetheart.

DP. I think she’s talking about new parents. The context was very different when you were born.

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Anonymous wrote:Sophie is overused.

So is charlotte.

Why don't people say this about boys names? Everyone I Greg up with was named Matt or Ryan. Who cares.

I care. The Ryan-explosion was ridiculous about 20 years ago especially in my Jewish school.

Personally, I do an internal eye roll when someone tells me their child’s name and it’s ridiculously popular.

You need to take a hard look at why you care so much about what other people name their kids. Seriously, what a nasty way to go though life. Find some inner happiness and you might not be such a negative hag.

Oh you can learn to stop being a sheep and actually think about your child’s name. If you think I’m the only one who hears “”Sophia” and doesn’t think, “”yeah, you’re that type”, you are dead wrong.

My name is Sophia. What exactly "type" are my parents exactly? Because I guarantee they have a whole lot more class than you do sweetheart.

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Anonymous wrote:Sophie is overused.

So is charlotte.

Why don't people say this about boys names? Everyone I Greg up with was named Matt or Ryan. Who cares.

I care. The Ryan-explosion was ridiculous about 20 years ago especially in my Jewish school.

Personally, I do an internal eye roll when someone tells me their child’s name and it’s ridiculously popular.

You need to take a hard look at why you care so much about what other people name their kids. Seriously, what a nasty way to go though life. Find some inner happiness and you might not be such a negative hag.

Oh you can learn to stop being a sheep and actually think about your child’s name. If you think I’m the only one who hears “”Sophia” and doesn’t think, “”yeah, you’re that type”, you are dead wrong.

If by "that type" you mean people who like things that other people like, you are describing the vast majority of mankind. So while you may not be the only one, you are in the minority.

But I get the sense you like it that way, so: enjoy! The rest of us will find something more interesting or fun to do with our time than worry about a child named, of all things, Sophia.

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Anonymous wrote:Sophie is overused.

So is charlotte.

Why don't people say this about boys names? Everyone I Greg up with was named Matt or Ryan. Who cares.

I care. The Ryan-explosion was ridiculous about 20 years ago especially in my Jewish school.

Personally, I do an internal eye roll when someone tells me their child’s name and it’s ridiculously popular.

You need to take a hard look at why you care so much about what other people name their kids. Seriously, what a nasty way to go though life. Find some inner happiness and you might not be such a negative hag.

Oh you can learn to stop being a sheep and actually think about your child’s name. If you think I’m the only one who hears “”Sophia” and doesn’t think, “”yeah, you’re that type”, you are dead wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:My son is 5. In his preschool class, he had at one point three girls named Kennedy, girl Dylan and boy Dylan.

My 8 year old has two Elijahs and two Grants.

As a PP noted, you can’t predict which names will be popular in your kids circle. Pick a name you love.

Both are great choices, OP.

+1. My dd's name is in the mid 700s on the ss list. There are THREE in her preschool.

I've noticed there are names that are generally popular (like Charlotte and Sophie) and then there are names that are popular specifically with people who don't want to pick popular names. The way you find names in the latter group is to go on Nameberry and look for names that are ranked 100+ on the SSN list but ranked in the top 40 or so on Nameberry based on their search algorithms. The same people who get mad at people who pick "trendy" names are also following trends, they are just micro-trends among a specific type of person. I'm not judging -- I think it's almost impossible not to follow trends with baby names because a truly off-trend name will simply sound wrong to most people. A true iconoclast would name their daughter Bertha or Dorkus. Most people want a name that sounds good to modern ears, though, which means following at least some kind of naming trend, even if it's a less common name.

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Anonymous wrote:Sophie is overused.

They BOTH are

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WHO CARES. That's not what Op asked.

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They BOTH are

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Anonymous wrote:My son is 5. In his preschool class, he had at one point three girls named Kennedy, girl Dylan and boy Dylan.

My 8 year old has two Elijahs and two Grants.

As a PP noted, you can’t predict which names will be popular in your kids circle. Pick a name you love.

Both are great choices, OP.

+1. My dd's name is in the mid 700s on the ss list. There are THREE in her preschool.

My son is 5. In his preschool class, he had at one point three girls named Kennedy, girl Dylan and boy Dylan.

My 8 year old has two Elijahs and two Grants.

As a PP noted, you can’t predict which names will be popular in your kids circle. Pick a name you love.

Both are great choices, OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Sophie is overused.

So is charlotte.

Why don't people say this about boys names? Everyone I Greg up with was named Matt or Ryan. Who cares.

I care. The Ryan-explosion was ridiculous about 20 years ago especially in my Jewish school.

Personally, I do an internal eye roll when someone tells me their child’s name and it’s ridiculously popular.

You need to take a hard look at why you care so much about what other people name their kids. Seriously, what a nasty way to go though life. Find some inner happiness and you might not be such a negative hag.

This. I had some inkling that people like PP existed before I started reading DCUM because I had encountered the occasional person who seemed to have something negative to say about every baby name. But once I started coming on this site, where they can unleash anonymously with zero social consequences? Whew. A lot of just intense and unnecessary judgment and insecurity. And it's very telling that their ire is directed at parents (almost always women) with new babies. These same people don't walk around talking about how dumb other adults' names are, for instance. I have a "ridiculously popular" name and it has never once caused a problem for me as an adult (it was annoying when I was a kid). People like PP don't go to dinner parties and say "Can you believe my new coworker is named AMANDA? Are you kidding! That was a top ten name the year she was born! What were her parents thinking? And she wants to go by "Mandy". Ugh, what a dumb nickname, I hate it." Can you imagine???

Nope it's just baby names they want to harsh on all the time. I think it has to do with competitive jealousy around having kids and a desire to position themselves as a superior parent because they chose the correct name for their kid. It's extremely weird. And I didn't even give my kid a popular name! But it's bizarre to see people acting like naming your kid Ryan or Charlotte is some kind of social crime. Get a grip. There is nothing wrong with giving your kid a common name, human beings have been doing it since the beginning of time.