lol. I don’t know. I have a pregnant coworker, and she plans on naming her daughter [name]Mila[/name]. I’m guessing she heard it when she heard of [name]Mila[/name] Kunis, and she thought it was a cool name. She’s said over and over that she really doesn’t want a popular name, and she’s talked somewhat disdainfully about how popular [name]Isabella[/name], [name]Chloe[/name], [name]Olivia[/name], [name]Sophia[/name], etc. are. Sometimes I wonder if she realizes how trendy [name]Mila[/name] really is (and how trendy it will be!). I feel like it’s not really my spot to say anything, and honestly, I quite hate [name]Mila[/name], so I wouldn’t want to talk her out of a name she loves just because I strongly hate it. It’s not a popular name yet, but I’m sure it’s headed straight to the top, and I wonder how she’ll feel about her daughter in five years when little [name]Mila[/name] is starting kindergarten.
The other people I know who are having babies, though–they just seem to choose names that are very typical of people I know in my state. I know very few babies (or know of very few babies) with top 10 names, but I come across a lot of very common names that are outside the top 10 (like [name]Samuel[/name], [name]Arianna[/name], [name]Nicholas[/name], [name]Tyler[/name], [name]Gavin[/name], etc.). In the past couple years, I’ve come across:
[name]Natalie[/name] [name]Grace[/name] and [name]Jillian[/name] [name]Nicole[/name] (siblings–[name]Jillian[/name] was born earlier this year, and [name]Natalie[/name] was born a couple years ago)
[name]Gavin[/name] [name]Michael[/name]
[name]Isabella[/name] (my boss’s wife just named her baby this a couple weeks ago. They have a few other kids, they’re Croatian, and I’m just curious what the other kids are! I’m guessing their names are fairly common…)
[name]Theodore[/name] “[name]Teddy[/name]” (it was a family name, though. Big sisters are [name]Layla[/name] and [name]Arianna[/name] “[name]Anna[/name]”)
And before I left my last job, a coworker (who will be a teen mom) had just found out she was pregnant… She asked me about names because she knew I loved them. Before she found out she was pregnant, she had liked [name]Hannah[/name] [name]Gabriella[/name] and [name]Caden[/name] … something (she didn’t know for a combo, but her boyfriend liked [name]Caden[/name] [name]Daniel[/name]. I think [name]Caden[/name] [name]Alexander[/name] and [name]Caden[/name] [name]James[/name] were also tossed around). When we talked about names, she liked [name]Luca[/name] and [name]Elijah[/name]. She liked the idea of an Italian name, because her family is Italian.
I think honestly, a lot of people who aren’t Berries think of the same thing–I just don’t think their criteria is as strict as most of us are. I don’t think they freak out so much about popularity, or care so much about unisex names, or stress so much about a name. They hear it, they like it, they use it. And it’s a done deal, haha. I know the mom of [name]Gavin[/name] [name]Michael[/name]… if [name]Gavin[/name] had been a boy, she said she would have named her [name]Skylyn[/name] [name]Jade[/name]. She had always liked [name]Jade[/name], but didn’t like it so much anymore as a FN when she got pregnant. She liked the idea of [name]Skye[/name], but wanted a fuller name. [name]Hence[/name], the trendy (and, imo, a bit stripperish) [name]Skylyn[/name] [name]Jade[/name].