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in reply to a message by cher529s
I don't really like it, but I did for a little while.
I don't feel like it's "too" popular. It's just fashionable. A name that is given to 0.5% of girls in a year is really not that frequent, right? One in 200... that's like, one in every 6 classes of 30 kids. It'd be pretty unusual for a Luna born in 2020 to have another Luna in her class at school. There might be two or three other Lunas in the *whole* school. Is that really too popular? ... I personally don't feel like it is.
If I really liked Luna, I wouldn't be really concerned about the popularity, so much as about it being trendy. I'd be thinking about whether or not I mind that it's possible, that nobody will be naming any babies Luna anymore by the time she is twenty. If I did mind - I think the relative popularity of Luna actually helps with that.
If a trendy name is modestly popular for a while, then it becomes familiar to everyone as a name of real people. So as time goes on, it seems more "normal," and less like something remarkable mainly because it is recognizably out of style. Luna's more like a Shelby than like a Kaylin.
I think that names that are popular in the same sort of trendy way that Luna is ... Aria, Mila, Isla, Nova, Everly, Willow, Stella, even Harper ... tend to be used by people who don't want to use very popular names. They're less likely to use them when they see them becoming popular. So I think Luna's not gonna get a lot more frequent. It's not going to be the next Ava. JMO.
- mirfak
I don't feel like it's "too" popular. It's just fashionable. A name that is given to 0.5% of girls in a year is really not that frequent, right? One in 200... that's like, one in every 6 classes of 30 kids. It'd be pretty unusual for a Luna born in 2020 to have another Luna in her class at school. There might be two or three other Lunas in the *whole* school. Is that really too popular? ... I personally don't feel like it is.
If I really liked Luna, I wouldn't be really concerned about the popularity, so much as about it being trendy. I'd be thinking about whether or not I mind that it's possible, that nobody will be naming any babies Luna anymore by the time she is twenty. If I did mind - I think the relative popularity of Luna actually helps with that.
If a trendy name is modestly popular for a while, then it becomes familiar to everyone as a name of real people. So as time goes on, it seems more "normal," and less like something remarkable mainly because it is recognizably out of style. Luna's more like a Shelby than like a Kaylin.
I think that names that are popular in the same sort of trendy way that Luna is ... Aria, Mila, Isla, Nova, Everly, Willow, Stella, even Harper ... tend to be used by people who don't want to use very popular names. They're less likely to use them when they see them becoming popular. So I think Luna's not gonna get a lot more frequent. It's not going to be the next Ava. JMO.
- mirfak
This message was edited 5/9/2021, 10:43 AM
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