Beyond Jennifer, Jason...

[grasshulaskirt.livejournal.com]

In the book ' Beyond Jennifer, Jason, Madison and Montana' one of the mentioned trends was upper class families naming their babies something and 15 years later or so, all the other classes follow suit.

My name is Emma, and while I barely know any other Emma's my age, I hear it being screamed in the supermarket constantly today.

Aside from the meaning and fortune of a name, popularity is the most important factor for us. Third is versatility, can you pronounce it in French/ German etc..What about you?

P.s using the baby name trends when I met my friends 13 year old daughter, Kayleigh, I said " everyone is named Kayleigh, Madison or McKenzie these days" my friend said " Madison and McKenzie are her best friends"!

Comments

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Popularity is definitely a factor to the names I like now (though, by the time I actually have children, all of their popularities could flip). Less so with boys, because I do like a few really classic boy names, I think, but I would definitely drop a girl name like a hot potato (or at least push it to middle name status) if it got too popular.

I wasn't going to say it was the most important factor, but since I couldn't care less about what names actually mean, I guess it kind of is. Besides whether or not I actually like it. I guess ethnic origins or just origins in general are slightly important to me, because I adore the name Santiago, but I would never use it because I think it would just be ridiculous on a little white boy.