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in reply to a message by Rosalia_Paw
I used to not want to use any names in the top 1,000 in high school but in college that changed to top 100 and eventually that changed to the top 50.
Then I realized a few years ago that popular names aren't as popular as they once were, so I compared what names I know far too many in my birth year to what percentage that was for my birth year and it was 0.50% of the children born of that gender on that year. So I will avoid any names in the top 0.50% - that is currently top 28 for boys and top 12 for girls. I'll also avoid any names that are close to that percent if you combine their multiple popular spellings. I'll probably also avoid the top 20 girl's names and top 30 boy's names from my state.
Unless it is a name that I love a lot, when I have a kid in a couple of years, I'll probably avoid any super popular names from the past 30 to 40 years. The thing that matters the most to me though is avoiding the super popular names in my country from right around when my child is born. Finding a name that my husband and I both love is important but almost every kid I knew in school with a super popular name hated it, so not using a super popular name is also important to me.
For example even though I have loved Olivia for a long time it is off the table. Luckily I love a lot of names, but if Olivia was my one and only name love I'd probably use it in spite of its popularity.
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Favorite Names:
Aurora, Hazel, Josephine, Vivian, Fiona, Delphina, Dorothea, Althea, Artemis, Sabrina, Frida, Maeve, Luna, Iris, Clara, Aveline, Matilda, Marguerite
Ciaran, Rowan, Brendan, Malcolm, Felix, Robin, Julian, Tristan, Magnus, Arthur, Adrian, Cedar, Cedric, Xavier, Connor, Silas, Gavin
Then I realized a few years ago that popular names aren't as popular as they once were, so I compared what names I know far too many in my birth year to what percentage that was for my birth year and it was 0.50% of the children born of that gender on that year. So I will avoid any names in the top 0.50% - that is currently top 28 for boys and top 12 for girls. I'll also avoid any names that are close to that percent if you combine their multiple popular spellings. I'll probably also avoid the top 20 girl's names and top 30 boy's names from my state.
Unless it is a name that I love a lot, when I have a kid in a couple of years, I'll probably avoid any super popular names from the past 30 to 40 years. The thing that matters the most to me though is avoiding the super popular names in my country from right around when my child is born. Finding a name that my husband and I both love is important but almost every kid I knew in school with a super popular name hated it, so not using a super popular name is also important to me.
For example even though I have loved Olivia for a long time it is off the table. Luckily I love a lot of names, but if Olivia was my one and only name love I'd probably use it in spite of its popularity.
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Favorite Names:
Aurora, Hazel, Josephine, Vivian, Fiona, Delphina, Dorothea, Althea, Artemis, Sabrina, Frida, Maeve, Luna, Iris, Clara, Aveline, Matilda, Marguerite
Ciaran, Rowan, Brendan, Malcolm, Felix, Robin, Julian, Tristan, Magnus, Arthur, Adrian, Cedar, Cedric, Xavier, Connor, Silas, Gavin
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