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If I love a name enough, I would use it regardless of how popular it is. Generally though, a name being too popular turns me off just because I get so sick of hearing it all the time. Probably the only time that popularity would be a deciding factor is if my SO and I couldn't pick between a couple of names we both liked and one was significantly more popular than the other. In that case I'd imagine the less common name would win out.

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ETA: Actually I do have to note the difference between trendy popular and classic popular names here. William for example is a name that will always be popular but when I imagine hypothetically naming a son of mine William, the fact he will probably be one of a couple of them in his class doesn't matter at all to me. On the other hand, if my absolute favourite boy's name Finn skyrocketed out of nowhere to become super popular and there was a good chance my Finn would be one of multiple in his class, that could be enough to dissuade me from using it. I don't think I'd want a name that would obviously 'date' my child to a particular time period.

This message was edited 2/22/2010, 3:50 AM