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in reply to a message by OliviaKate
The number of baby girls named Addison more than doubled from 2005 (3011 babies and ranked #106) to 2006 (7528 babies and ranked #27).
So, if you want to avoid trendy, avoid Addison. It's the Brittany of this decade. If trendy doesn't bother you, there is still the association with a disease (reasonably well known thanks to the popular medical dramas), the (apparenty likeable) character on Grey's Anatomy, and the ambiguous gender (granted the extraordinary popularity of the name for girls probably overcomes that in the US. In Canada, the UK and elsewhere in the world people would have more trouble).
I'll admit that my tastes run to the more timeless types of names- so I like Adele, Adelaide and Adeline. Your mns are lovely in themselves- Jane and Claire are two of my favourites, because they are feminine, strong and timeless. Jane is in fact the least common/popular name on the whole list (#478). Charlotte is # 123 and Claire is #86. Danielle is #116, but given its incredible popularity from the 70s to the 90s, it feels older and more common (and your daughter may be assumed to be older than she is later on...).
You can find the popularity of a name and the list of the top 1000 names every year since 1880 at the link below.
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/
So, if you want to avoid trendy, avoid Addison. It's the Brittany of this decade. If trendy doesn't bother you, there is still the association with a disease (reasonably well known thanks to the popular medical dramas), the (apparenty likeable) character on Grey's Anatomy, and the ambiguous gender (granted the extraordinary popularity of the name for girls probably overcomes that in the US. In Canada, the UK and elsewhere in the world people would have more trouble).
I'll admit that my tastes run to the more timeless types of names- so I like Adele, Adelaide and Adeline. Your mns are lovely in themselves- Jane and Claire are two of my favourites, because they are feminine, strong and timeless. Jane is in fact the least common/popular name on the whole list (#478). Charlotte is # 123 and Claire is #86. Danielle is #116, but given its incredible popularity from the 70s to the 90s, it feels older and more common (and your daughter may be assumed to be older than she is later on...).
You can find the popularity of a name and the list of the top 1000 names every year since 1880 at the link below.
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/
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That I looked at your favourites list, and Maeve is a great one! Can I vote for that one??
Layla and Nora (well, I like the Leila and Norah spellings) are both lovely too, rising in popularity but they are nowheres near the weird phenomenon that Addison is...that's why there is all the negativity from the previous posters, which I wanted to apologise for- some of it is awfully mean! We're all a little more candid online than we would be face to face- I'm sure they didn't mean to be hurtful (and I hope I wasn't either).
That I looked at your favourites list, and Maeve is a great one! Can I vote for that one??
Layla and Nora (well, I like the Leila and Norah spellings) are both lovely too, rising in popularity but they are nowheres near the weird phenomenon that Addison is...that's why there is all the negativity from the previous posters, which I wanted to apologise for- some of it is awfully mean! We're all a little more candid online than we would be face to face- I'm sure they didn't mean to be hurtful (and I hope I wasn't either).
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