To ask if you'd find this odd

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Family with two children, one has a name in the top 10 for that year and fairly consistent in popularity throughout history (biblical name - think Matthew and so on.)

The second has a name that's very, very rare.

nope,
Ds1 is Luke (Im agnostic, I think that is the right term?) so just a name I liked, and ds2, is Sean..

Unless there's a bit of gender bias at play. For example, they call a boy Thomas Edward "because he has to be taken seriously at work!" but they call a girl Lulubelle Trixie-Bee Shufflebutt because "tee hee it's cute lol!"

I know of a family like this! Two DDs names something like Ezmerelda Peaches and Darcy-Mae, then DS named Keith. I've always found it odd!

You are the child's mother.

My two have Hebrew names.....for no other reason that I liked them.
However, DD's name is quite popular and even more so now than when she was born yet DSs name is very unique and hardly anybody called it. Yet they're both biblical names.
Perhaps the person has done that? Is the rare one biblical or from Greek mythology etc?

Or maybe they're named after relatives etc.

I'd probably notice the difference between the names but that's because we have a similar situation in my family. All my siblings' names have a subtle theme and their names always attract positive comments. My name doesn't match the theme. I've always thought it was a bit odd. It looks as though my parents put a lot of thought into the other names and then didn't bother as much with mine.

I was coming on here to agree with you (not that I care what other people call their kids, but that I personally would find it curious) but actually you've got a bit of an attitude going on OP.

Why should she have to answer Navy's irrelevant question? She's right that responses to the thread have absolutely nothing to do with how she knows the kid.

The baby name dilemma I don't get is trying to have First and middle names that match. Unless you are going to call the child by their full name all the time, then just hyphenate and be done, or don't worry

DDs names are both rare. They've not met another person with their name at their school or any of the after school activists they've done.

DS names is very popular. It was is the top 10 list of most common names the year he was born. It was chosen as it's a grandparents name rather than because it was in trend.

I used to work with a man who had a very, very unusual name. I'd only ever heard it on a TV program from my childhood. His 2 younger siblings had super common top 10 names.

I always figured that his parents had lost their nerve after they named him :)

and following on from Xmasbaby11
Luke was always going to be a Luke...
And when ds2 arrived we hadn't a name form him... until day 3/4ish I think it was and Dh came in to hospital and said how about Sean, it transpires he had been watching Wallace & Grommit, the night before, with Sean the Sheep in it!!
and thats how he got his name!!

yes I WOULD think that's odd. Obviously I would keep that opinion to myself ... but it IS odd

But where I know the child from is completely irrelevant Navy

Seán is the Irish form of John.

Luke and John are both biblical names, Red...

My sister was given a popular name & my name at the time was very unusual. It's never bothered me at all.

Navy

It's still irrelevant.

The child thinks her parents dislike her because they gave her a peculiar name. That's the pertinent fact, not where I know the child from.

Shall we drop it now, as I don't want to argue or have people think I've got an attitude.

Wtf no!

Not at all. Our eldest has the type of name that you need to repeat, and people are always saying is very unusual, but our younger one has a very 'of the moment' name.

We did. No one has ever commented on the disparity and, thinking about it, we haven't even had many comments about ds1's (unusual) name in recent years.

Are the children the same gender?

I think that would make it more stark.

eg Jane and Hortensia

DC1 has a popular name. We've only ever met another person with the same name as DC2. Never gave it a thought.

One boy and one girl. The girls name is the unusual one. A lot of people comment on it and it's made her self conscious.