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Helppopularity issues...
in reply to a message by LillyMargaret
Yeah, at this point, I'm pretty sure I'm happy with our top few choices. That also means i might have a crisis in deciding.
I'm not sure yet whether to consider Alice's popularity problematic. It's clearly moved up the social security baby name rankings very quickly, and I don't know how to guess if it'll plateau or if it's going to join Emma up on the top of the chart. One good thing, I figure, is that it is too classic to be "trendy". It can only become popular and begin to date again.
Our other top names (unless we move Susanna to a first name slot) are clearly highly mobile as well, and are maybe quirkier and so more in danger of somehow being or becoming trendy? I'm not too sure where the lines are. We usually knock off any baby names that don't have a lot of history, just because we love history, but my obscure historical arguments won't save us if the name sounds of-the-moment.
Our last pick, August for our son, seems to have moved up quite a bit too. In our immediate area I keep bumping into people who have a new family member with the name. Supposedly, "August is the new Oscar" according to Name Berry at one point - but I still don't know what that means. I figured it to be more like Otto. But I might be the only one who picked it because it is Augustus for Germans. :p
I'm not sure yet whether to consider Alice's popularity problematic. It's clearly moved up the social security baby name rankings very quickly, and I don't know how to guess if it'll plateau or if it's going to join Emma up on the top of the chart. One good thing, I figure, is that it is too classic to be "trendy". It can only become popular and begin to date again.
Our other top names (unless we move Susanna to a first name slot) are clearly highly mobile as well, and are maybe quirkier and so more in danger of somehow being or becoming trendy? I'm not too sure where the lines are. We usually knock off any baby names that don't have a lot of history, just because we love history, but my obscure historical arguments won't save us if the name sounds of-the-moment.
Our last pick, August for our son, seems to have moved up quite a bit too. In our immediate area I keep bumping into people who have a new family member with the name. Supposedly, "August is the new Oscar" according to Name Berry at one point - but I still don't know what that means. I figured it to be more like Otto. But I might be the only one who picked it because it is Augustus for Germans. :p
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Yes, the fact that August is the German form of the name is why we picked it over Augustus. (We have a lot of German background so we were trying to find names familiar in two places.) Also, we figured it to be less formal or in need of a nickname, compared to the three-syllable Augustus.
People mostly do not shorten it... mostly ...
People mostly do not shorten it... mostly ...
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