Question ladies... how important is popularity when you choose your baby name? DH is in love with Sophia but I hesitate because it is literally the number one name for the past 5 years. I love the name, and meaning, but I don't want my DD to be one of ten "Sophias" in her class.
Should we focus on what we really love, or think about popularity in this case? For the record, DD#1 is Annabelle Rose - which is usually top 50 popularity.
Re: How important is popularity to you?
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If you love a name, and especially if it has meaning to you, go for it.
Personally I am trying to Avoid the top 20 for either gender. But if you love it use it!
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Our first child has a name close to 500. Our second is in the 90's. However it's a name that while much more popular hasn't had a lot of quick increases that make it trendy.
Looking at trends is the best way to truly decide if it's too popular for you IMO. Take Aria for example it is one of the biggest and quickest trending names I have personally looked at in a long time. You can almost guarantee Aria is under 5 and that is far worse than knowing you might have another Sofia in your class.
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can see the trending, I have my reservations. But I love the name....and nothing else is calling out to me!!
My favorite name for the longest time has been Isabella and I can't find a name that I like better so we will probably use it if I can convince my husband that we don't all have to have J names ( if we do, she will be Josephine or Johanna). I have a real issue with her having such a popular name so it has been a struggle. I guess we shall see what it turns out to be. I am not pregnant yet anyway.
The one thing I can't get past is trendiness (like PP discussed). If a name becomes suddenly popular out of nowhere, it's trendy. If it has consistently been popular through the years, it's just a common classic.
This happened to me with the name Liam. My family is Irish and I've always planned to use Liam. However, when it made a huge and fast popularity jump, it lost its appeal to me. I still love the name, but I just can't picture myself having a kid with a trendy name. I'm still planning to use William, though.. It's a classic kind of popular, so despite it being common, I'm happy to use it.
My name was top 10 when I was a child (Elizabeth) but honestly I never had another one in my class until HS. even now I do not know many elizabeths.
As a side note, you could name your DD Josephine with the NN Sophie. Josephine is rising in poparity but hasn't hit the top 20 yet. It also gives more NN options when she gets older, if she wants to use something else.
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However I thought I would add that I am a Head Start teacher and this year we had two Annabellas and one Annabelle. (Three Isabellas and one Arabella) enrolled. So out of 68 kids but not a single Sophia. It really is just chance who will be in future classes.
We also have two little boys named Mathias. What are the chances of that?!
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My advice now (which has changed bc of this experience)--Go with your heart!
Also, after we had picked out Lincoln for our first son Dax Shepard and Kristen Bell used it for their daughter. Freaking celebrities keep stealing my baby names!
ETA: I will take a beautiful classic name like Sophia over any awful trendy made up name.
Rohan and various spellings are pretty common in the U.S. Also