Do you have a popular name?

Yep. It was not only number 2 the year I was born, but it pegs my age pretty accurately.

Mine was definitely not a popular name for girls. I was actually in my 50's before I was in any group where there was another woman named Toni. DD's name wasn't popular when we named her, but about 10 years later it was. Bummed me out because I tried to avoid that.

Not when I was born and not now, but it climbed into the top 10 when Friends (the TV show) happened.

I have a name no one can pronouce correctly, or spell or find on any trinket anywhere. --named after the dead grandmother.. the one who was alive did not want me to get her name. (edith).. that name went to my little sister.

My full name is pretty common with a variety of nicknames and traditional spellings. Think Elizabeth but not quiet as popular. I go by a nickname and there were 2 other girls in my HS friend group with the same name. However I have only met a small number of people with my same name and that is as a former teacher, current sub and very involved school parent who knows lots of people. It actually surprises me that I haven't encountered more people who go by my same (nick)name.

No not at all. My name is definitely not unusual in any way. But it isn't super common. I don't know many with my name.

My name is pretty common, as I grew up in a French Catholic community. IIRC, there was only one other Michelle in my grade, but I also went to a Catholic university and Michelles were a dime a dozen there! The Beatle’s song Michelle came out a year or two before I was born with didn’t help the popularity.

When we had kids, we named DS a fairly uncommon name, although there have been a few over the years that we have met. DD has a very common name and there’s always been at least one girl in her class with the same name. But it’s also a name that has a lot of nicknames and the girls would just pick what they were called that year.

We named DS in the NICU. We just couldn’t decide on a name, but as soon as we saw him, we knew. DD had been named since I was about 12 years old. I loved one of the nicknames associated with her name, which is actually less common. That’s what the family still calls her, although she now goes by another nickname at school. (Think Catherine, Cathy, Kate, Kit...)

Go with a name that you like. You will say it thousands of times over the years. Say it out loud, say it with the middle name (‘cause that’s how a kid knows that they are in trouble!) There are pros and cons with both common and uncommon names and only you can decide which way to go.

I was born in the 1950s. Guess what I got called all through grade school? Yep, Lucille Ball.  I didn’t appreciate her so much when I was a little kid. She just seemed like a weird old lady with too much lipstick on. I do appreciate her more nowadays.  

Anyway, my full name is Lucy, not Lucille. Lucille actually started out as a diminutive of Lucy, not the other way around. No one ever believes me on this.

All that said, my name is well-known but not particularly common.

My son had the same problem. We called him Jamie. Not James. And teachers insisted his name had to be James. 

My name is Kathy, I did not know any other Kathys or Katherines until junior high. 

Mine is not a popular name. When I was in elementary school the names that were popular for my age group were Debbie, Susan and Cathy. I was not named after her but had a great-aunt with the same name and the same spelling. I never had another student with my name, all through school, including college. I had one teacher with my first name, when I was in junior high.

However, when I got my teaching job, there were two other employees in the small district with the same name, both older than I was then. That was kind of weird because I wasn’t used to calling other people by MY name.

In almost 42 years of teaching, I think there has been one student with my name, and hers was spelled differently.

You were a few years ahead of the trend!

My dd #2 was born in 2002 and we named her Emma. I think Emily was the number #1 girls name at the time... About a month later the episode of Friends where Rachel had her baby aired. I knew right then that Emma would be a popular name for years to come.

My name is Jennifer - which I'm pretty sure ranks as the #1 most popular girls name through the entire 1970s. 😂

ETA - there were 5 Jennifers in my high school English class senior year.

Not kidding, my sister is Kristi, with an I 

No, my name is not common. But Finding Nemo did help people get away from thinking I was Lori  

Top 50 for the year I was born.
In a class of 25ish another girl and I had the same first and middle name with the same spelling. So we were first name last initial, spoken and written, up until grade 10 when she left. Both of us had long mouthful Ukrainian last names also.

My name is known, but not common. I didn't meet anyone in real life with my name until I was about 13.

To what I bolded above, most people I know with a common name hated being assigned nicknames in school. I had three Davids and three Jennifers in my class of 30ish kids and even 50 years later I think of them as David, Davie, Dave P and Jennifer, Jenny D and Jenny M. The all prefer to go by Dave and Jen.

My kids have uncommon family names. DD loves hers and DS hates his.