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Subject: Re: Those top 100 names you love
Author: Amy   (guest, 69.249.189.189)
Date: April 6, 2012 at 8:18:53 AM
Reply to: Those top 100 names you love by Edie
You know, there is just a much smaller pool for boys names than girl's names. So I try not to stress if my favorites are in the top 100. I just don't want them to be SOO overused throughout time, like John or Michael or James, or for them to be trendy either.

I like:

Ethan*
Alexander
Noah*
Mason*
Gabriel*
Jack
Jordan
Julian
Robert (my dad and brother's name)
Eli
Chase
Levi*
Nathaniel*
Tristan*
Jaden (only this spelling, but I wouldn't use it)

For girls, I would try to stay away from the top 25 because I think girls' names are a little more susceptible to trends. Even my name, Amy, even though it has a very long steady history of use, to at least as far back as the 1800s, because it spiked so much in the mid-70s, it tends to be associated with trendy or dated names now. My mom actually liked the name because of the book "Little Women" though.

Sarah*
Victoria
Evelyn*
Sophie* (I like this a lot better than Sophia -- too drawn out)
Camila (I prefer Camilla)
Jasmine*
Jocelyn (I think I like it as a middle for both genders)
Faith
Lucy*
Autumn
Ariana*
Angelina
Naomi

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