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You know, I like it. I avoid the 80s-now vibe and think of it as a pioneer name. I love picturing little Emily in her braid, calico, and pinafore running around on the prairie near her family's log cabin. I do the same thing with Amanda, too. :)

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I'm sure Emily will start dropping eventually, but it's not going to be totally out of fashion in the near future, I'm sure. I doubt it'll be out of the top 100 in only 10 years. I don't think it will ever sound too dated because it is a fairly classic name already. Since 1880 it has never really dropped out of use.

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I know tons of Emilys, I'm sure. Plenty my age, at least. I don't know a whole lot of younger kids, but I can think of at least one Emily who's maybe 10.

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I'd spell it Emily. Any other spelling looks odd to me.

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I wouldn't really call Emily boring, but it definitely doesn't stand out and it does have a very simple feel. But I love simple-feeling names.

Emily is already dated to me in a Deborah, Lisa, Amanda, Jennifer way. I don't especially care for the sound either and this is coming from someone who has a niece named Emily. What's funny is that my sister's name is Lisa!

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I've known quite a few over the years, mostly since high school. The girl in high school was Emilie. My dd had a friend named Emilee but the vast majority have been Emilys. Then there are the Emmas ...

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So if you decide to use it in 10 years, it shouldn't be as common and at least it's a classic. Having said that, the only thing worse, imo, than having an enormously popular name is having it a decade or two after it was hugely popular -- especially for a woman because people may assume she's older than she actually is.

Popularity aside, the first image in my mind upon hearing EMily is not pretty at all.

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I don't see it being seen as dated though, seeing how it was also used in the 1800s at least. (Emily Dickinson, anyone?)

I think it is a really spunky name, and while I don't think it will be out of the top 100 in ten years I think Emma has definitely taken it's place so it won't be as popular. According to facebook I know 13 girls named Emily, but I definitely do know more. I would stick with the spelling Emily, maybe Emilie, but please never Emmaleigh or the like. It ruins the name.

i love the name Emily.
i like it spelt Emilie :)

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and in my 19 years of living ha, i've only known 2 Emily's

I used to hate Emily because it sounded so whitebread and dull to me, but I've grown to appreciate it as a very soft and sweet classic name. It'll definitely become less common as time goes on and will be dated, but if you you like it well enough then don't worry about it.

I've always liked Emily. It's still really lovely as a middle name option, it takes away it's commonness and makes it seem literary.

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I do think it will seem incredibly dated. Less like Amanda and Deborah and more like Jennifer. It won't be out of the top 100 for many decades probably, it's still used a lot. Jennifer first entered the number one slot in 1970, and stayed number one for 14 years. 39 years later, it's still in the top 100. Emily was in the number one for 11 years...

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I probably know about 20. I'd spell it Emily, but I like Emilie too.

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I think it is boring, but still pretty.

I love it. Its probably my overall favourite girl's name of all time. It is one of the first names I recall loving and honestly, despite its popularity, I probably don't love it any less. We often talk about to what degree popularity influences our naming preferences on this site and I think my general answer is that I would use just about any name if I loved it enough despite popularity. Emily is kind of my exception- that degree of popularity, that massive jump it took and then to stay at number one for so many recent years is enough for it to be completely scratched from the list of names I would ever even consider for a daughter.

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I think it will get less common- I mean, it can't really go up any further, it can only fall. I don't think it will be out of the top 100 in ten years. Most names take longer than that to fall. Look at Jessica, Ashley, Samantha, Kayla etc

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It will be dated, but I'm not sure how dated it will sound. I know quite a few. maybe about 6. It is too boring, but it is a beautiful name.

It's a name that I've always felt pretty neutral about--don't love and don't hate. Now the fact that it is so popular has colored my opinion of it a little to the negative. I don't know how I would feel about it if it weren't so popular.

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It can only fall, but I'm not sure if it will fall all the way out of the top 100 in ten years. It will definitely become dated, but yes, there's a difference between dated classic names and other dated names.

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I've known three. One was a woman I knew about twenty-five years ago, who was at least twenty years older than I am, so she must be in her seventies now. Another was a young woman who's probably in her late twenties now. Another is a friend's daughter who is now fifteen. My fifteen-year-old niece's middle name is Emily. It would have been her first name, as it was her mother's favorite name for a long time, but it was deliberately avoided for first name use because of its popularity. I definitely think Emily the best spelling.

It's cutesy for sure. I know a lot of Emily's, mostly 25 and under, the youngest one I know is 4. I like the spelling Emily, but know people with all different spellings, even Emmaly - Emily looks classier. I do think it's boring, but I think all common names are boring.

It will become less popular probably, but it will become dated and I think then some time needs to pass before it becomes considered "old-fashioned" in an appealing way.

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For the time being, I find it really boring, almost as boring as Sarah and Jennifer.