Anyone else pick a name that is now popular?

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I picked my daughters name because I loved it and in 10 years as a predchool teacher had never had one in my class. Now the name is number 30 on the baby name lists 🤦‍♀️

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I think this happens to a lot of people who expect their personal experiences to indicate what names are popular or not without actually checking the stats.
It just doesn’t work to use your experience with 4 year olds from ten years ago to predict baby name popularity today. Name popularity from when preschoolers were born has already shifted even four years later, let alone 14 years. 
If you want to know how popular a name actually is, you have to look it up on the social security name webpage (if you live in the US). You can look up how popular it was the year your baby was born, or the year before even, and I bet it was already getting up there. 
The other problem with using our personal experiences to judge popularity is that we just don’t have the volume. Even a whole school worth of kids isn’t a representative sample, so it might give a general sense of popularity, but will also often give inaccurate information. 
So unless maybe you work in the mother and baby unit at the hospital, or with the social security office registering new babies, then none of us can really have a sense for current name popularity without checking the stats.

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Why does it matter how popular it is? If you like the name, use it.

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Yes.. Landon. Still in love with it though

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My husband and I will be naming our son Maverick. I know that's on the popular name list but that's where I got it from 🤷

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I've loved the name Jackson since I was 16. It's super popular now but I still plan on using it!

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I didn’t realise when we named our children that we have number 4 and 6 on the most popular lists! Must just have good taste in names! 😂

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Yep, when we picked “Isla” it was number 117th on the lists of popular names in the US. We picked it familial reasons (it has both Scottish and Spanish roots; my mom is Scottish and my MIL is Spanish, so we thought it was a nice way to honor them both). It’s now listed on so many lists as the “fastest growing name in the US”. 😫 It’s still not in the top 50 (yet) and not even the top 100 in our state according to social security records, but still it irks me.
Our soon-to-be son’s name (Ford) is currently in the 700’s, and I’ve already had several people tell me they love that name, know a baby with that name, or are strongly considering the name if they have a boy. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Yes I named my first baby Jack in 2014. The year after everyone decided to name their baby Jack or Jackson lol

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Oliver is pretty popular but it’s the only boy name we could agree on 😂

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I absolutely adore the name Mozart

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