Name Popularity
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babynamesI've noticed that many people in this community are very anti-popular names, and I was wondering how true that is to the community as a whole.
I personally, have no problem with popular names. I grew up with a slightly unusual name (I've only known one other person to have it), and I always found myself wishing that my name were something more mainstream, like Jennifer or Lindsay or Meghan (though now I think I'd prefer a more timeless name like Elizabeth or Anna). Anyway, I was just wondering.
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I personally, have no problem with popular names. I grew up with a slightly unusual name (I've only known one other person to have it), and I always found myself wishing that my name were something more mainstream, like Jennifer or Lindsay or Meghan (though now I think I'd prefer a more timeless name like Elizabeth or Anna). Anyway, I was just wondering.
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Date: 2006-06-24 03:55 am (UTC)my name is Jessica, and I was born in 1989. so i *totally* relate to being te 1000th person with your name.
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Date: 2006-06-24 04:12 am (UTC)Oh, yeah...there were like four Jessicas in my class. The big ones were Lindsey, Jessica, Jennifer, and Ashley for girls and Matt, Jason, John, and Kyle for boys. The thing is, I'm from probably the only school where there weren't any really weird names. There was a girl named Pepper and one named Scarlett and then there were girls who spelled their names Stefanie and Rebekkah, but other than that everyone was very common names.