For example, do you like [name_f]Amelia[/name_f]? Does it’s popularity change your opinion?
Usually, I like names a bit more if they are more familiar.
I feel neutral to positive about [name_f]Amelia[/name_f]: it’s a nice name for other people but it isn’t on my own list. If [name_f]Amelia[/name_f] wasn’t popular I’d proabaly be more neutral about it. It still wouldn’t be on my own list and for other people I wouldn’t really care about the name because it would be a name without any real associations.
Yes it makes me change how I feel. [name_u]Ive[/name_u] loved the name [name_f]Violet[/name_f] for years and now that Im having a girl Im changing my mind due to its gain in popularity.
Also tho [name_f]Amelia[/name_f] is a wonderful name
I still really love [name_f]Amelia[/name_f]! It’s one of those classic names for me, in the same category as [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] or [name_f]Victoria[/name_f]. I also like the nickname potential, not having a nickname isn’t a dealbreaker for me, but it’s always nice to have an option (growing up as someone with a name that doesn’t have nickname potential.) Anyway, it’s been on my list for quite awhile (both the [name_f]Amelia[/name_f] and [name_f]Emilia[/name_f] variations) and I do love to see it used on other people. It’s become a bit too popular for my preferences, I have always said that I wanted to name my children something that isn’t too popular (I’ve known many kids who have to go by [name_u]Avery[/name_u] J. because there were multiple in the class.)
Popularity doesn’t change how I feel about a name but it does change how likely I am to use a name though, more popular names tend to move a bit further down my list.
Yes, I think it does with certain names — my given name was super common and I’ve never really connected with it because of that. It’s a name that I think I would really like if it were less common. There are plenty of super popular names that I love, though, and I think when considering popularity I’d go off of people I know, not overall statistics (for example, I’d never use Katharine/Catherine/Katherine because every other person I know is named one of those, and so I wouldn’t directly associate the name with the child. But Leo is just as popular statistically but I’ve only met one, so I’d still be open to using that.)
Amelia I don’t love but not based on popularity — I just don’t like the sound. But I do like it for others!
Yes, popularity changes how I feel about names. This is down to two things: first, despite having a very popular name for my age group I didn’t really know anyone else with the same name until I was eleven, whereas my class was full of repeated names (several Rebeccas, [name_m]Laurens[/name_m], Katies, Claires) and that made me feel distinctive in a good way. (Now one of my close friends is married to someone who shares my name and it’s confusing as heck sometimes in conversation!)
Second, as a name-nerd and general lover of wordplay and creativity, I just feel like there are so many beautiful names out there in the world that it feels a shame to use the ones that everyone’s heard a thousand times 
However, I would offer the strong caveat that if you just love a name and it just happens to be something that’s in the top ten, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use it. If to you, that name means ‘my kid’ then it’s the right one regardless of how many others feel the same 
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I’d say I’m a more adventurous namer. If I were to have children, I’d want someone to see or hear their name and have a reaction to it. Whether that’s “never heard that before!”, “I wonder where they’re from”, “why would they pick that name in the year 20xx?”, etc. I just don’t want it to blend in and be “just another ____”. So with that attitude, popularity does affect my view of a name. If a name I like becomes popular… well, I hate to say it, but to ME it does become “just another name” in a sense. I do have exceptions especially if I love the name enough (Isaac is on my boy’s list, for example).
I try to not let it change how I feel about a name that I really love. If I’m iffy about a name, then yes I have put it further down the list when it gets more common.
I spent too much time vetoing names that I like because what boiled down to ego. It became “people won’t think my choice is cool or different or praiseworthy if a billion kids have the same name.” I’m trying to let love be more important than than.
[name_f]Amelia[/name_f] isn’t my favorite. I kind of struggle with saying it (ah-mee-lee-uh or ah-MEAL-yuh) and that kind of distracts me too much when I hear it? Objectively though, it’s a decent name. I would love to see more creative nicknames for it, rather than just [name_f]Millie[/name_f]!
amelia specifically i really don’t like, but olivia on the other hand is one that i do love. popularity isn’t too big of a factor for me i don’t think. i don’t think i’d ever use a top 10 name, but i still might like some.
Popularity is definitely a factor for me, a lot of the names i like the most are very uncommon, but then there are also some names i like that are more common/known and often that means the name goes lower on my list, [name_u]Fern[/name_u] is an exception for me though, i am likely going to use it for a middle name even though its more popular than my other names. [name_m]Even[/name_m] though i wish it didn’t have as much of an affect on how much i like a name, popularity has a big impact. I don’t really like [name_f]Amelia[/name_f], because of it’s popularity but also just in general.
I love [name_f]Amelia[/name_f]! I think it depends on the name. If I really love a name I’ll probably still use it. Unless it’s like everybody is naming their kid that name, like super popular. At least where I live [name_f]Amelia[/name_f] is only somewhat popular. I think I only know 3 or 4 Amelias.
Popularity affects how I feel about a name. I may love a name but I would think twice about using it if it appears in the top 100 and would eliminate it if it’s in the top 20.
It goes the other way too. We are seriously considering naming our second son [name_u]Hazel[/name_u] but it’s very popular for girls and a few months back it was almost unheard of for boys. Now however it’s steadily rising to the top 1000 on the boys list and that makes me more confident that it could be the one.
Not always but unfortunately sometimes it’s inevitable. 
Yeah. It definitely loses some appeal. When I start to hear a name around, it starts to take on other associations that crowd out the associations/reasons I like the name in the first place. However there are exceptions like [name_f]Lily[/name_f] and [name_u]Willow[/name_u] that I love despite their popularity.
As for [name_f]Amelia[/name_f]. Its a perfectly lovely name that just isnt my personal style so the popularity of that name doesnt affect my opinion on it either way.
I think for me, it is more about how many I’ve personally known and my associations. Like, [name_u]Henry[/name_u], [name_m]Oscar[/name_m], [name_m]Isaac[/name_m], [name_f]Isla[/name_f], [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f], [name_f]Isabella[/name_f], [name_u]Leo[/name_u], [name_u]Florence[/name_u], [name_f]Lily[/name_f] and [name_u]Willow[/name_u] are all popular, but I don’t dislike them. I have either good associations or haven’t met very many of them. I might not use them as firsts, but I’m not compelled to dislike them because of their popularity.
Other popular names, I have met so, so many of them that they don’t feel interesting, they don’t have spark, or shine. [name_f]Amelia[/name_f], [name_f]Olivia[/name_f], [name_f]Emma[/name_f], [name_u]William[/name_u], [name_u]Liam[/name_u], [name_u]Jack[/name_u], [name_u]Harry[/name_u], [name_u]James[/name_u], [name_m]Oliver[/name_m] etc are all meh to me because I’ve worked with lots of kids with those names, grew up with lots of kids with those names and just feel bored by them. That’s not to say they’re bad names, just not my personal taste.
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Popularity mostly influences whether I’d actually use a name as a first irl. Otherwise if I love a name for whatever reason, I’ll still love it and put it on my list even if it’s popular. There are some names I get sick of hearing, which makes me like them less, but I probably didn’t like them enough in the first place.
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Yes, popularity does change how I feel about names! I like names that are familiar enough that spelling/pronunciation isn’t a huge issue and people have definitely heard of the name before, but aren’t so popular that it feels like people will know loads of babies called that.
Like, [name_f]Sarah[/name_f] during the 80’s was everywhere. And while no name is QUITE that popular these days, [name_f]Isla[/name_f] sure went pretty crazy, and when there’s an [name_f]Isobel[/name_f] and [name_f]Isabella[/name_f] and [name_f]Isabel[/name_f] in one class at school… I dunno, it seems to take away some of the “special”-ness of the name a bit, and feel like it was just chosen cause it’s what’s popular?
But unfortunately most names I love are magically back in style as soon as I’ve started my family, which seems crazy because I’ve sure as hell never been up with trends before 
So yeh, LOVE [name_f]Amelia[/name_f], wanted nickname [name_f]Millie[/name_f], got axed from our list due to popularity. [name_f]Elsie[/name_f] may make list for a future child despite increasing popularity because of how much meaning it has to me.
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I love [name_f]Amelia[/name_f]! It’s a classic! I would say the popularity of a name doesn’t change my mind about it, but the trendiness does. [name_f]My[/name_f] daughter’s name is [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] - always very popular and #16 in the US for the year she was born -but we’ve yet to meet another one her age. However, her nn is [name_f]Birdie[/name_f] and we know THREE Birdies! Two girls and one boy (all of whom have [name_f]Birdie[/name_f] as a given name, not nn). I think it’s because “old lady” names are just so hot right now. Her friends all have names like [name_f]Lola[/name_f], [name_f]Olive[/name_f], [name_f]Jane[/name_f], [name_f]Virginia[/name_f], and [name_f]Vivienne[/name_f].
[name_f]My[/name_f] own name is suuuuuuuper 80s trendy and I was always ____ M. in school, so that was annoying, and I really don’t love my name because it’s very “of a certain time.” When we were naming our daughter, we really tried to stay away from names that we felt were trendy-popular (i.e. - [name_f]Ava[/name_f], [name_u]Harper[/name_u], [name_u]Willow[/name_u], [name_f]Scarlett[/name_f], [name_u]Liam[/name_u], [name_u]Jackson[/name_u], Hudson), but we loved classic-poplular (Elizabeth, [name_f]Lucy[/name_f], [name_f]Caroline[/name_f], [name_u]William[/name_u], [name_m]Peter[/name_m], Samuel).
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[name_m]Just[/name_m] looking at the popularity data for a name doesn’t ruin it for me but it does count as a point against it if it’s really popular. Enough to go huh, thats not ideal but not enough to take it off the list just because of that. If I see it around on forums and real life A LOT then I’m likely to get sick of it and that will majorly impact my opinion of the name. (This is a little unpredictable though because my top two boy names used to be [name_u]Henry[/name_u] and [name_m]Oliver[/name_m] but both are really common and I see them around all of the time in equal amounts. [name_m]Oliver[/name_m] has gotten moved down the list but [name_u]Henry[/name_u] hasn’t so 
sometimes it matters, sometimes it doesn’t?)
[name_f]Amelia[/name_f] is pretty and a nice name that I like but I see it around on a lot of lists and it is a bit more popular than I would probably go for unless it was the only name my partner and I could agree on so its more in the category of like it for other people who don’t mind the popularity but its not high on my own list.
For some names yes, but I’ve never met a child named Amelia. Amelia to me, has only ever been my best friend’s mother. Other names like Sophie were mainly dropped off my list based on it’s popularity.
My favourite name of all time is Ivy, It is currently ranked in the top 50 and even top 10 for most countries. This hasn’t affected how I see this name at all though.