With my daughter I was very conscious of how popular certain names were - I really didn’t want anything in the top 10. We wound up choosing a name we love that SEEMS super uncommon/strange in my area but fell somewhere around #30. We’ve ran into one or two other kids with her name, but that’s it.

Now, we are having a baby boy and the ONLY name I like (a name I have loved since I was a teenager) is literally the second most popular name. I can’t decide if this is a deal breaker or not! I I haven’t run into many boys with this name yet (one or two tops) and I’ve read it might be on the decline, but still, I don’t know if I want him to have to be one of 10 kids in his class with that name.