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It's something I consider. It's not because of name frequency, as Rachel Shaina said that is not a huge factor anymore. It's because I think high popularity tells me that a name will have a certain image. Or at least, a certain aspect to it, that less relatively-popular names don't have. And it's almost like, the less that popularity means great frequency, the more that seems true.

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But, it is usually not something that would stop me from using a name - especially one that wasn't a trendy-style name like Mason, Liam, Mia, Ava. I would have used Alexander for my son if my husband hadn't agreed on something else, and I think of that as a really popular name (it's even one that is perceived as overused in some demographics).

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I feel like Noah is more overused than that even. But, for guynames a little blandness can be appealing, in a way that I don't feel it is for girlnames. So I don't know if I would use Noah or not. It's really hard to say because it's not my style. I start to think I probably wouldn't, but then, I don't love it, so I don't know.

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I think I would have used Charlotte or Sophie if we hadn't been able to agree on other names, and Sophie definitely has Noah-level popularity-effect. But I do like it enough that I would have used it if compromising made it necessary, so ... yeah. There you are.

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- mirfak

This message was edited 12/6/2015, 11:00 AM