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3 children with my DDs name!

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Peasize · 16/12/2023 12:44

My DD has what I would consider an underused name. It’s well known but not used for many children her age. I’m a bit of a name freak and checked all the stats for the years before her birth and subsequent years after and it is hardly used. Around 150-200 born a year roughly and well above top 200-300 names a year but there’s 3 with her name in a tiny rural nursery. I realise that everyone is looking for less popular/underused names now and people may say it’s obviously not as unusual as I thought but the stats do show it is quite underused so it really strikes me as being crazy that there are 3. Has anyone had similar? Seems like there’s little pockets of popular names in areas maybe.

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User373533 · 29/12/2023 21:53

Also worth saying that I had my first child when I was only 19. Now I am 37 and most of my peers have had babies recently, and the names I have always liked since having my first that were unheard of back then have increased exponentially in the last several years so I assume a lot of name trends are influenced by a generation, the films/TV programmes and books they watched in childhood/early adulthood. I thought I liked very unusual names, but it's just that most of my generation hadn't had babies yet. So if no name update in 2 years it's possible your peers have had the same idea and if isn't reflected in stats yet.

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