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[–] Zink@programming.dev 42 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

When choosing my son's name I had two rules:

  1. No super popular top 10 or 20 name. There were plenty of very popular choices that I liked as names. But, I figured let's try to find something at least a little unique for various reasons.

However!

  1. They shall not need to spell their name every time they tell it to somebody. This implies a few things, like choosing an established first name people have heard before rather than making something up, and using the common spelling of that name.
[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This seems rational and thoughtful.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks! That's usually what I'm going for.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I had a very similar strategy, except I was trying to avoid top 50. I once told a stranger my kid's name and they said "I like it. Unique, but not weird". That comment made me so happy!

[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, I wasn't very particular about how far up the list. Top 50 was probably too much in most cases.

Looking back for my son's birth year, his name is just barely in the top 100 for boys. So top 200 overall.

That's actually more popular than I expected it to be, but it is definitely in the very broad sweet spot we're talking about.

Looking back at my birth year, my name is in the top 10! That's even more surprising because it didn't feel that way at all. I think there was one other kid with the same name in my graduating class of hundreds. Yet I distinctly remember there was one class one year that had SIX "John"s.

edit: that's six Johns out of a single classroom of maybe 30 people at most, not a different graduating class. They were in my grade!