Some of my all time favourite names are [name]Hazel[/name], [name]Alice[/name], [name]Stella[/name] and [name]Avery[/name], with [name]Rose[/name] and [name]Mae[/name] as middle names.
I thought it was original, I thought it was unique, I thought it was my own.
Then I stumbled upon a name popularity list, and found out most of the world had the same idea as I did!
With [name]Rose[/name] and [name]Mae[/name], I call them chips-in-the-sandwich names, where everyone seems to think that they invented it.
With [name]Alice[/name], [name]Stella[/name], [name]Hazel[/name] and [name]Avery[/name], I see that now they’re some of those “different together” names, where everybody tries to be unique, and therefore so all they do is make some new names popular. or spell some old names “kreeaytiflie”.
This drives my crazy!
Anyone else agree with me? Anyone disagree? Anyone a mix of both? I’d love to hear your opinion! 
I’m completely distraught that my favorite boy name, my father’s name, his grandfather’s name, his father’s name, the only name that encapsulates all that I want in a name - ancient, cross-cultural, personal, harmonious with our last name - is suddenly popular. When I was a child [name]Alexander[/name] was in the 100s for popularity. Now it’s #4 in [name]America[/name] and all the boys born in my office, my husband’s office, and my ballet class have all been [name]Alexander[/name]. That’s MY son’s name! None of these people have had any connection to the name they just “like the way it sounds”. Some of these people I don’t respect very much, I don’t want my son’s name to follow theirs. It’s their right to use it, I’m just so sad for us.
Sob.
I can’t give my son a #4 name, no matter that I keep thinking of him as “[name]Alexander[/name]”. It makes this so hard.
I totally hear you. Crazy that I am, I thought I kept hearing my daughters’ names and came on here to check it out!
I chose my girls names 23 years ago. Other names came and went but these were tops, in part because they were not all over the place. Now more people have “caught on” to my naming style, even a friend! GGgrrr…
From your first name list, I would definitely not say that [name]Alice[/name] and [name]Hazel[/name] are popular. You definitely hear them more but they are not popular.
But somehow for me, having someone else share my daughters’ name makes it feel less “special” in a way. She is the only one for me with that name but I do not want to hear it a lot!
I feel your pain!
I can totally understand what you’re saying. I didn’t realize how popular my favorite names were until I looked at how much they jumped up the charts between 2008 and 2009. [name]Alice[/name], [name]Annabel[/name], [name]Emmett[/name], [name]Jasper[/name], [name]Penelope[/name], and [name]Silas[/name] all jumped 50+ spots! [name]Penelope[/name], [name]Jasper[/name], and [name]Emmett[/name] actually jumped 100+ spots. :evil: I wasn’t too happy when I saw that.
I’m totally ageeing with everything that has been said on this topic so far!
For a long time my favourite girls name was [name]Lucy[/name]. I loved it - it had history but was still modern enough not to have the tease factor. Then it got popular in a big way.
And now? I still love it but I just don’t want my future daughter to attend school with three or four other little [name]Lucy[/name]'s. Why? Because I had the same problem with my name - [name]Samantha[/name]. It was such a popular name in the 90’s that I spent much of my school years having to say “Which one?” when the teacher asked for [name]Samantha[/name].
I really do not want that for my child…
I’m an [name]Emily[/name], so I can totally relate to this. [name]Lucy[/name] is one of my very favorite girls’ names too. Thankfully where I am, you hardly ever hear it. I’m hoping that doesn’t change any time soon…
Someone said that [name]Alice[/name] and [name]Hazel[/name] aren’t popular, so I checked a name list for 2009, [name]Hazel[/name] was at 294, and had gone up 49 places that year. [name]Alice[/name] was 258, and had gone up 69 places, and, on top of that, I’m Canadian and [name]Alice[/name] is a considerable amount more popular around here. With [name]Hazel[/name], I guess I was just irritated beyond belief that a name that hadn’t even been in the Top 1000 in 1997 went up practically eight hundred spots in twelve years.
My other cute little gem that everyone seems to be using is [name]Jayden[/name] or [name]Jaiden[/name] for boys. I feel like screaming “I saw it first!”
[name]Charlotte[/name] was my very first favourite name, and I can remember everyone else in my class telling me it was old fashioned and boring. At last check, two of those classmates have little baby Charlottes now! 
My next favourite name was [name]Isobel[/name]. Not [name]Isabella[/name], mind, but [name]Isobel[/name] (which I think is infinitely prettier) is rendered quite unusable due to her cousins meteoric rise to fame. My naming tastes have changed since then, but I wouldn’t have minded the option of having a little [name]Charlotte[/name] [name]Isobel[/name] (both names have close family ties, too).
I also really liked [name]Avery[/name] - for a boy. I still do, actually, though I have since moved him down to the “character names” tier instead of the “future children” tier. Maybe I will finish my novel, edit the hell out of it, become an overnight bestseller, and swing [name]Avery[/name] back to the boys. A girl can dream…
Oh please do! I’m trying to do the same with [name]Sidney[/name].
Oh please do! I’m trying to do the same with Sidney.
I fully support this endeavor! [name]Sidney[/name] was another one of my favourite boys names for a while (largely because of syd barrett).
I’m Canadian too and I agree, [name]Alice[/name] and [name]Hazel[/name] are soaring up there. I have loved [name]Hazel[/name] forever but I have taken it off my list 
With regards to [name]Jayden[/name], I work in a fairly large workplace (around 300 employees) and every few months someone has a baby. If its a boy, its [name]Jayden[/name], [name]EVERY[/name] SINGLE TIME!!! Its getting to the point when I should just start guessing it to see their shocked expressions! :lol: Unfortunately, when a name gets trendy that fast, it usually falls just as fast, I know I’m already getting sick of [name]Jayden[/name]!
I have loved [name]Isabelle[/name] since my high-school days. I was reading [name]Isabelle[/name] Allende and fell in love…we all know what happened with that! While pregnant with my son, I was still considering it as the girl name, but an extremely close friend chose [name]Isabella[/name] for her daughter. Now my [name]Douglas[/name] (he definitely won’t be having classmates with his name…named for daddy…he’s my [name]Dougie[/name]. But damn [name]Cali[/name] District and their stupid, yet catchy song, “Teach me [name]How[/name] to [name]Dougie[/name]”!!! :roll: ) and little [name]Isabella[/name] are the best of friends. My other top girl name, [name]Lila[/name] has been a 
favorite long before I saw it climb the charts, but popularity be damned, my 19 month old [name]Lila[/name] [name]Brooke[/name] is the cutest ever.<3 Another girlfriend is 6 months pregnant with her own Lyla mn Jilesse. My options for a 3rd are Charles and Eva. Charlie Sheen has all but ruined it for me, and I know Eva is extremely popular, but I love it and think it fits in with the current names in our family.
I’ve loved the name [name]Elliott[/name] since I was a little girl (we’re talking 30 years ago) and no one else ever mentioned the name. Now I know two little Elliotts who are less than three years old. I was so sure that I would have the only [name]Elliott[/name] on the planet.
[name]Alexander[/name]! That’s my son’s name, and it is his grandfather’s name, toted across the ocean from Poland, so filled with meaning that we could not imagine another name for our son.
But I’ve always been bothered that it was so popular. I tried unusual nicknames. [name]Alexei[/name] never really caught on. [name]Aly[/name] stuck for a while and I was happy to have a boy named [name]Aly[/name]. Then he hit kindergarten, declared it was a girl’s name and re-christened himself [name]Alex[/name].
My daughter is [name]Clio[/name] and I’m starting to hear it more and more, but it still seems comfortably obscure.
When I was in jr high I was addicted to babynames.com and I thought I discovered [name]Aidan[/name]. I LOVED it and still do. Now its flippin’ everywhere!
I also love [name]Isabella[/name], there’s something so sweet about it. [name]Bella[/name] is just lovely imo.
I’ll never use either. They’re both too popular and the irony of an [name]Ashley[/name] having a son named [name]Aidan[/name] is too great.
[name]Stella[/name] is one of my favorite names but I won’t use it now due to the popularity. It would be a 2nd daughters name (if I had one!) but now its completely off the list.