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[Opinions] Re: People with Top 10 names: how has life treated you?
That’s so strange people would assume your kid is the mom! I never would have thought of that.

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Growing up I only came across adult men with my name. Now I only know little girls with it. It's both funny and frustrating, especially given that my husband also a newly trendy name (Xander.(I used my middle name for years and then was bullied into using Haven by my husband. I'm still salty.
Haven is such a lovely girls name, I have thought so since I was a child so for like 25 years.
I'm 42. Haven didn't start charting until I was 15, in 1996.Here's a stat;
How many boys are named haven?
1 out of every 1,602 baby girls and 1 out of every 13,681 baby boys born in 2021 are named Haven.I just recently spoke to someone on the phone who had a son named Haven,. My mom babysat a girl named Haven in the 1970s, she was named after her grandfather.
Several girls in my mother’s side of the family are either named Haven or have Haven as a middle name. The funny thing was until reading your comment, I had forgotten who they were named after: My great grandfather Albert, middle name Haven. It’s funny how a generation or two can just suddenly decide a name is feminine instead of masculine.