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It doesn't really matter to me...I'm not going to avoid a name that I love or a name that is important to me just because a mere 1 in every 100 or so kids bears the same name--hell, Emily was my favourite name for years! History and usability matters more to me than some government ranking. My favourite names (Charlotte, John, James, etc) are in the Top 50 here, and I don't even think that I've met a little John or Charlotte recently. This isn't the sixteenth century, where everyone was named John, Mary, Anne, etc. or even the fifties. This emphasis on popularity has completely warped the way we named and not being popular has become increasingly popular. You'll never get a class with five Jacobs nowadays...you might get one or two, or possiby none at all. Popularity shouldn't be the main objection to a name, as popularity changes...a name has to last from birth certificate to gravestone. Popularity only counts for one year.