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That irritates me. Both of those names have always been at the top of my list of possible future baby names, and now that I might actually have a kid in the next few years they are too popular to use.
Yeah, I better start thinking of some new random ones.
Back when I was 12 or 13 I thought Isabella was the best name ever and I wished I had it. So I went on a volunteer program with all new people I'd never met and asked them to call me that, but then I never answered to it and it didn't work at all.
Original baby names are overrated, IMO, and going to far in the opposite direction leads to some seriously tragic names. I'm a "Kate", and variations of my name were pretty popular around when I was born. Same for my sister Sarah. So what? I'm still an individual, and so is she.
Hey, my cat's name clocked in at number ten. That reminds me to give Mia her afternoon kibble.
I feel bad for a friend of mine. Her six year old is named Isabella, and people will forever think her mom was a Twilight fanatic when she actually predates the books by a year.
I think that's often true, danf- boys' names seem to skew more "classic" than girls' names. Jacob, Joshua, Daniel, and now Noah. Noah! If people read the full story on Noah, they might rethink that one.
The Twilight factor is more going along with a trend. The history of the name:
* 1990: 895
* 1995: 174
* 2000: 45
* 2005: 6
So it was already surging to the top by the time the first book came out.
Even when you think you're being original, the zeigeist has a way of making a lot of people original in the same way at once. When I was born in 1969, my mom actually felt pretty original naming me "Michelle."
My name is Andrea. It's never been in the top 20, but it's consistently made the top 100 since the 1960s. I think that's a reasonably good spot to be in -- everyone can spell it, but there are rarely more than a few of us around.
My name (Amanda) was popular when I was born in 1975 but got a lot more popular in the 80s. I am always surprised to meet an Amanda who is older than me.
Jayden is painful. Is it the Britney Spears effect?
I'm glad to see that "Madison" as a name is in retreat.
As a resident of the city, so am I.
:( Madison is one of my favorite names. I actually live in that city too, but only for school so I guess it doesn't irritate me like permanent residents.
We named our daughter Aspen. . .long before she was conceived, we decided on it while sitting in an aspen grove in Central Oregon. Had nothing to do with the city, although sometimes I told her that we actually named her after the Dodge Aspen.
(Her middle name is the name of a long ago German Shepherd that I had. . .but a fine name. . .Daughter may have some stuff to work through.)
Oh dear, I'm trendy now? I suggested Ava to a friend of mine when he was asking for help in naming his daughter. Every name I suggested had to do with sound as he described her as "screaming non-stop from when she was born until the next day" and baffled "so much noise could fit in such a wee thing". Ava is "like a bird" - so I was thinking songbird.
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