Category: Questions of the Week
We spied this question in the forums and thought it was so good we’d ask the Nameberry community at large:
How popular is a name before it gets too popular for you?
Would you avoid the Top 10? The Top 100? The Top 1000?
Or maybe you’d happily choose the Number 1 name if you loved it enough. Or only want names that nobody else, literally, is using.
When it comes to baby names, how popular is too popular for you?
We’ve (thankfully) moved beyond the days when it seemed like nearly every first son was named after his dad — and if he wasn’t everybody wondered what was wrong.
Today family names are still favored, but many parents are more likely to honor a grandparent or spin mom’s maiden name into a first than to name the baby after themselves.
Would you, did you, name your baby after yourself? Or did you maybe use some version of your name in your child’s name? Maybe you have a family name as part of your own that you passed on to your child?
If you did name your baby after yourself, or if you’re named after a parent, how do you keep the names from getting confused?
Or perhaps you’re a junior who would never foist your own name on a baby.
Tell us your experience with and your feelings about Baby, Jr.
We bet you’ve got (a lot) more than one. We want to hear them all!
What are the names that you know you shouldn’t love, but can’t help yourself?
Bring us your so-bad-they’re-awesome names, the childhood favorites you just can’t quit, the kree8if spellings you secretly like better than the originals.
Ready, set, confess!
We’ve named our ideal families. We’ve taken a swing at naming girl twins and girl-boy pairs.
We’ve even, masters of naming that we are, named quintuplets!
And now, we’re asking you to name your ideal set of triplets — an easier enterprise in fantasy than it would be in reality!
What would your perfect triplet configuration be: all girls, all boys, or what kind of mix? And what would your fantasy triplet names be?
Do you wish your own name was more unusual…or more popular?
The general trend of taste in baby names these days is toward the unusual — many of us are looking for names that will help our children stand out in the crowd.
This is borne out by statistics, in the ever-growing number of sheer names in common use and the shrinking number of babies given the top names.
But how does this relate to your feelings about your own name? Do you wish you had a more unusual name yourself, and if so, why?
And if you have an unusual name, how do you feel about that — now, and when you were younger? Are you happy you have an unusual name or do you wish you had one that was more standard-issue?