I know people always say they want a name that's not in the top 100/500/1000, but what kind of names are we talking about, if you don't mind sharing?
I know once you start getting down on the list it ends up being a bunch of youneek spellings of Aidan/Aiden/Aydin/Aadynn and whatnot, so it's not like there are even 1000 completely unique names in the top 1000 SS list. There are probably so many more really nice, unpopular, but totally normal names that only a few hundred, or a few dozen, babies are born with every year.
Lately I've been really feeling Magdalena for a girl, which fell out of the top 1000 in 2010, or Alistair for a boy.
Re: Non-top 1000 names
Lol, that's why I said "if you care to share."
No one can really steal a name. I'm pretty sure most people here feel the same way, though!
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Lol. Most of my list isn't in the top 1000, although some of them are probably weird. I've yet to meet anybody else who likes Demelza, which did not even make the Beyond the Top 1000 list. Hugh and Anna are the only names on my list that made the top 1000.
Boys: Hamish, Ewan, Kelly, Fergus, Angus, Cormac, Darcy, Alistair, Eamonn, and Gareth (DS)
Girls: Niamh, Rowena, Briony/Bryony, Catriona/Caitriona, Rosalind, Linnea, Demelza, Demetria, Calliope, Iona
Names from our lists that were not in the top-1,000:
Amalia (blipped in 2011, back out again in 2012)
Cecily
Antonia
Nella
Harriet
Louisa
Susanna
Eugenie
Philippa
Oona
Americo
Artemas
Carlo (flits in and out of the low 900s)
Pascal/Pasquale
Kepler
Walton
Amasa
Baby Name Popularity by State
Oh Cecily isn't?! That's on my list, too.
Joy, I like Edmund much better than Edward, but I don't like Ed.
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We were considering Mabel or Clementine, which are not in the top 1000. To me, I love the names and being out of the 10000 only made them more appealing. Ultimately, we decided on a name in the high 400's.
Beyond the top 1000 for boys, I like Lyle and Linus.
DD's name Zelda is out of the top 1000.
My current top girl names, Margot and Thora, are not in the top 1000 either.
How about Ned? Sean Bean approves.
Baby Name Popularity by State
Magdalena
Bernadette
Agnes
Georgiana
Joan
Therese
Ramona
Fern
Lorraine
Lloyd
Lachlan
Malachy
Angus
Ignatius
Harlan
Bartholomew
Sylvester
Ambrose
Augustine
Laurence
True that!
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I just checked Moira & Margo (spelled this way) are not in the top 1000. Maeve is up in the 500 somethings now. While it's still not that popular, I know a few in my area.
Oh, and I just realized that Ellis isn't on there.
ETA: Neither is Ellen.
Ulysses (although it was 979 in 2011)
Fawn
I don't know of any girls names that I really like outside of the top 1000 but I have a few boy names. I've thought about using them as FN's but I don't think I would...maybe as MN's.
What about Todd?
Love Joan and Ambrose! I didn't even think of Joan.
DD's name, Elinor, isn't in the top 1000, but Eleanor and her nn, Nora, are both in the top 150.
Our future possible boy and girl name are on the list between 600 and 1000 (Duncan and Matilda).
A friend of mine is pretty set on choosing a name that is not in the top 1000. One of her top girl names is Aurelia. The other two top girl names she has are in the high 800s.
We are almost definitely naming our son Dashiell. It's not in the top 1000, but that's not intentional. (And to be honest, I kind of wish it was. I don't want a name in the top 500 or anything, but I actually do wish it was a little more popular as one of my hesitations with the name is that friends and family will think it's "too out there" or "too uncommon" enough to embrace/like it.)
Duncan, Matilda and Elinor make up the cutest sibset ever!
Oh I agree. I really like Duncan!
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Love your list. Lachlan is on ours too. I've tried to get DH on board w/Ignatius, Harlan, and Malachy. So far, no go.
Supposedly my name, Meredith, was a little too "out there" for my dad's family. And it was 150ish the year I was born (600+ now). That side of the family picks really boring names. Even though my dad agreed to my name, I also worry that he'll be like, "huh?" since I would want to keep names secret until birth, so he wouldn't even have a chance to get used to it.
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My favorite, not in the top 1000, is Augusta.
Oh, and Imogen.
I tried really hard to convince my DH on both of these for DD. More Augusta though.
Sean Bean dies in everything! No good! I love the name Zelda, but I am a hardcore video game geek, and all my friends would tease me mercilessly if I had named DD that. Her name is unfortunately super popular, but she was named after my Great Gramma so popularity be damned.
My name (Jill) isn't top 1000 anymore. If this baby is a girl, her first or middle name will be Wren which is not top 1000 either. Though, knowing our "style" (classic, preppy), the other name we choose will likely be top 500 at the very least. Probably top 100.
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Louise!
It is a classic, nottoooutthere name.
Audra and Agatha.
If I had another daughter tomorrow she would most likely be an Audra.
Is this like Amos? Or is it one syllable?
My top two girl names are Ophelia and Wren, neither of which are in the top 1000. My top boy name is Finley which is 547.
"Not in the top 1000" used to be my rule, but we have so much trouble choosing boy names that I had to compromise it.
Oh and my daughter's name is Ramona, which isn't in the top 1000 either.
It is one syllable, pronounced like aims. It was DH's grandfather's name.