These are the names we love, but I am worried the boy names especially are becoming too popular right now. I think the girls names will be ok, but not sure. We really dont want our kids to be 1 of several with the same name in school. Any opinions?
Boys - Quinn Grayson & Declan Blake
Girls - Alora Dominique & Lyla Genevieve
Re: Names becoming too popular?
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Quinn and Lila (spelled correctly) are names you might want to keep an eye on, but I'd be surprised if your child will be one of several in the same class. People are using a wider variety of names now. Even highly ranked names on the SSA list are used less frequently and are by no means the majority.
Declan and Alora, though? No way. Don't worry about it. While Declan gets a lot of face time on this name board, I have yet to meet a little Declan (or a big one, for that matter). I almost never hear Alora on this board, and have never met one. Granted, everything depends on your area and what's popular there, but I would be surprised if your little Declan or Alora had to share his/her name with too many other people his/her age.
FWIW, I like Declan and Lila from your list. I don't like Quinn for a boy since it's becoming popular for girls, and I think Alora just sounds like a fantasy book character.
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A good site to look at popularity of names through time:
https://www.babynamewizard.com/name-voyager
How would you be pronouncing Lyla?
I've met one Quinn, but it was a SHE. I agree with pp that it may be getting popular with the little girls, as the Quinn on GLEE is a girl.
I have never met a Declan (but I do see it pop up on this board) or an Alora, which is pretty and unique.
I have seen Lyla, but spelled Lila, Lilah, etc.
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We would be saying Lyla as in lie-la. We both dont like the Lila spelling and know a woman named Lila who says its constantly being pronounced lill-a. She actually considered changing it to a Y because then it sounds out more easily
I have never met a girl Quinn (the only one I have ever heard of was on Weeds, and I thought it was just a strange You-neek thing) as far as I know that wouldnt be a problem here, but food for thought I guess. That is my fave of the boy names
We would definitely not be using the ah spelling for Alora, both of us really hate unnecessary letters in names (and MH says it reminds him of the Torah haha)
Thanks for the input everyone