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

[hwar.livejournal.com]

When I was naming my daughter, lack of popularity was a naming criteria that was very important to me. Now, however, it is less important to me to be uncommon. While I'd probably steer clear of top 20 names, I'd use a common name if 1) I REALLY loved it and 2) it was a classic name that had been historically popular as well as recently popular (names like Sarah, Matthew, etc). This is especially true of boy names since there are just plain fewer good ones. These days more names are in circulation though, so even if a name is top 10, there aren't THAT many children getting them.