Anonymous wrote:Two syllable last name - plain but uncommon. We like traditional names. So far Laura is our first choice but someone here posted it was getting used a lot recently.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re thinking about Meera/Mira. Anyone know one?

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Anonymous wrote:Why does it matter if it's being used a lot? Don't you want your child to have a popular name?

Why would you want your kid to have a popular name?

Familiar, easy to spell, trendy. Why wouldn’t you? Never understood this “must find obscure name” thing — that sort of thinking begins the “precious little snowflake” mentality.

Neither of my kids have an “obscure” name, they are names that you’ve definitely heard before, but are not trendy and definitely not hard to spell. My youngest daughter’s name now is a little more popular, but my oldest isn’t and I’ve not once been asked how to spell it. Think of Marie, like a pp posted they named their child. Not obscure, not popular, not hard to spell. Sweet, lovely name.

I had a very common name growing up, was one of 6 in my class (six!) at one time. I hated it. Resented it. And although I don’t think of myself as a special little snowflake, I did feel like I was special enough to at least have a name that wasn’t shared with so many kids. So... that’s why.

+1. I hated being one of forty million Jennifers. My kids got “typical” names that were below 250. Names are a huge part of one’s identity and it’s hard to share it with so many others.

+2. I still hate it. There are three other Jennifer’s in my department and will undoubtedly be several Jennifer’s in my old age home.

Anonymous wrote:Ingrid

Anonymous wrote:Two syllable last name - plain but uncommon. We like traditional names. So far Laura is our first choice but someone here posted it was getting used a lot recently.

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Anonymous wrote:Helen
Ellen
Heather
Laura
Lauren
Anne (Annie)
Julia
Rebecca
Marilyn

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Anonymous wrote:Daisy!!!!

I love, love, love the name Daisy!

Anonymous wrote:Marie. It’s my daughter’s name but we have yet to meet another one in the 6 years since we started having kids/paying attention to kids’ names. It’s in the 600s in terms of popularity on the social security name list.