I’m just curious because a lot of people worry a lot about name popularity when dismissing some of their beloved names, but I was thinking about how popularity relates to real life. [name_f]My[/name_f] class at school had a few repeated names, some that due to popularity you might expect, and some that you wouldn’t, and a few names from the top 10 of that year didn’t even feature in the classroom. I’m just curious whether others have a similar experience to me, and I felt an urge to contrast my various school classes with the popularity stats and felt like i’d post it here, in case anyone else felt a desire to do the same.
[name_f]Aileen[/name_f] (ay-leen not eye-leen) (not in top 100)
[name_f]Alexandra[/name_f] x 3 - 40
[name_f]Alicia[/name_f] (uh-liss-ee-uh) (not in top 100)
[name_f]Amy[/name_f] - 7
[name_f]Ashleigh[/name_f] - 55
[name_f]Bethany[/name_f] - 15
[name_f]Ellen[/name_f] - 84
[name_f]Emily[/name_f] - 8
[name_f]Harriet[/name_f] - 54
[name_f]Jennifer[/name_f] x 2 - 42
[name_f]Jessica[/name_f] - 3
[name_f]Joanna[/name_f] - 97
[name_f]Katy[/name_f] (Katy not in top 100 but [name_f]Katie[/name_f] no. 14)
Kseniya (not in top 100)
[name_u]Louise[/name_u] - 44
[name_f]Lucinda[/name_f] (not in top 100 but [name_f]Lucy[/name_f] no. 13)
[name_f]Nicole[/name_f] -37
Nikhita (not in top 100)
[name_f]Olivia[/name_f] x 3 - 24
[name_f]Rebecca[/name_f] x 3 - 1
[name_f]Roxanne[/name_f] (not in top 100)
[name_f]Sophie[/name_f] - 6
[name_u]Tegan[/name_u] (not in top 100)
[name_f]Zoe[/name_f] - 30
Names in the top 10 that weren’t in this class at school…
[name_f]Lauren[/name_f] - 2
[name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] - 4
[name_f]Hannah[/name_f] - 5
[name_f]Laura[/name_f] - 9
[name_f]Emma[/name_f] - 10