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I'm going to rather disagree with you here. In a way.

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First: Nobody would say that the parents don't have a right to name their children what they want. Pretty obviously, they named them what they wanted to and what they thought best, and everyone knows that very likely they would still prefer these names to whatever we choose. But everyone here has a right to an opinion on the names, and that's all anyone would be doing--stating an opinion. It's very common for people here to make a post about a name given to a real-life baby and ask for opinions. I've done it myself. Isn't that the point of a name opinions board? What's wrong with giving an opinion where the parents are very unlikely to see it anyway?

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Also...I think these names are very boring--nothing *inherently* wrong with them, but overuse and popularity makes them boring. I always feel impatient by people who use overly popular names, because *in my opinion* it's a bad idea to use a name that does nothing to distinguish a child and will some day date him or her. I think that's all the OP meant to say, and that's her opinion and mine and we have a right to it, and if we can't state it here on a names opinion board, where can we state it?

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Let's celebrate the fact that we are namenerds and we have ideas and sensibilities that the general public doesn't have, instead of decrying it.