I was taking about names with my husband and he didn’t know that [name]Emily[/name] is and has been a popular baby name. I was stunned.
LOL a lot of times parents assume that the names that were popular when they were kids are still popular today- not so, obviously!
I would have thought having 5 kids he would have been a bit more familiar with current name trends. Of course last summer my son made friends with a boy named [name]Asher[/name] and my husband was totally confused.
This reminds me of talking with my mom. She’s always so surprised when I tell her about names of students that I have (especially vintage comebacks). Names that seem totally normal and on trend (like [name]Clara[/name], [name]Emma[/name], [name]Evelyn[/name], [name]Lily[/name], [name]Violet[/name] to name a few), get “That’s such an old lady name” from her.
I think you have to know a lot of little children or be a primary school teacher to know what’s currently popular! I know two baby girls called [name]Emily[/name] born in the last two months.
I thought there weren’t many Harriets around and three pop out recently and it’s climbing the charts here in the UK.
Huh? [name]Emily[/name] has been in the top 25 since 1982…
Generally, men have no idea lol.
My point exactly.
I’m a sophomore in HS, I know approximately 38539857378934252.5 Emilys. There is literally an [name]Emily[/name] in every class I go to. I’m surprise it’s not the #1 most common name because it sure seems like it.
Lol…My friends husband - they are expecting any day now - didn’t know there was a census list of the top 10 and that [name]Sophia[/name] and [name]Olivia[/name] were on them. His wifes a teacher. My mom is no better. She laughed out loud at my favorite names just to turn around and ask what was wrong with [name]Sophie[/name] or [name]Sophia[/name]. ([name]Sophie[/name] is my middle name and a family name - which I love but…) [name]Ophelia[/name]/[name]Ofelia[/name] had to go but [name]Sophia[/name] was cool. (Actually all of my names had to go according to here they were all awful and lacked femininity and softness - what a surprise when most of my boys names are warrior inspired.)
Where has he been? There are [name]Emily[/name]'s everywhere. Of all ages.
When my godson was born, my bff’s mother and I were standing outside of the hospital room for a bit and chatting. A hospital staff member approached us, and we just small-talked for a bit.
She asked what my godson’s name was going to be. I said, “[name]Ethan[/name] [name]Tyler[/name].” Her response: “[name]Ethan[/name]? That’s a different name.”
I honestly thought she misunderstood me, so I repeated it. She said she had never heard of it…You work on the baby-birthing floor of a hospital. [name]Le[/name] sigh.
My husbands the same. When we chose [name]Arthur[/name] he claimed that he would be the only one in his school and I had to break it to him that he probably wont be. He was really surprised but it didn’t put him off the name (thankfully!).
He was also surprised about [name]Jack[/name] & [name]Oliver[/name] being popular too. Haha. Men.
[name]Just[/name] the other day, I mentioned that [name]Isabella[/name] was a popular name and my husband didn’t believe me! To be fair, he works in hospitals and most of his patients are, um, no longer young, so he has very little interaction with children. Still, how did he miss the influx of [name]Bella[/name]/[name]Isabella[/name]/[name]Arabella[/name]/etc. over the past decade or so?? He also said [name]Estella[/name], my favourite name, “sounds like an old Italian lady”. Sigh…
To be honest I’ve only met one [name]Emily[/name] under 5 and I work in a childcare centre, when I went to school there were a few [name]Emily[/name]'s in my year, I think maybe 6. I mean it’s a common name I’ve heard a lot but not one I’ve seen in use in my day to day life. The [name]Emily[/name] I did look after though last year was 2 and one of the sweetest, funniest, spunkiest little kids ever. I live in Queensland Australia though so it might be much more in use in other areas
My OH thinks [name]Freya[/name] and [name]Phoebe[/name] are ‘really unusual’ - er, they’re top 50 names in the UK, and have been popular for quite a few years.
I love [name]Emily[/name] but it’s been popular for ages and ages. It’s pretty much always around. I guess maybe I could see not feeling that it’s trendy so much as omnipresent, like [name]Elizabeth[/name] or [name]Katherine[/name]. It doesn’t feel tied to a particular decade all that much to me because I know ones my age (30) my mom thinks its old-fashioned, and there are new ones born every day of the year.
But I do know someone who has two daughters under five named [name]Isabella[/name] and [name]Sophia[/name] who swears up and down she didn’t want popular names, in fact picked [name]Sophia[/name] for something obscure. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with loving popular names, I just wouldn’t tell myself they were rare. 
Some family friends just had a wee [name]Emily[/name]. They said they wanted something not too common but well-known. Well, they got the well-known bit right.