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[KeithHernandez]

My name is always popular in those lists, but I have never known too many.  One of my best friends right now has the same name, but, in a high school graduating class of like 450, only 1-2 others, and they both added a y.

My name, I think, is biblical, but actually came from a guy known as the "SW Springsteen" or something like that, who is my dads hero.  For some reason I hate putting my name on the internet, but lets just say when you all talk to dunston sometimes I get confused, because she shares my real life initials.

Actually, fuck it, Joe, JL and Joe Ely(dads hero).

[CortJstr]

Wow, my name actually cracked the top 20 in 1989-90. I always thought that Kyle was relatively rare. I remember never being able to find any personalized crap when I was growing up. We always had to get stuff with my middle name on it.

I was named after my grandfather, and it looks like when he was born it wasn't even in the top 1000.

[wombat]

See, nowadays they are naming boys all kinds of crazy stuff!

[AugustWest]

My son, however has his own problems, as he is named after an Heinlein character. 

Valentine?

[jay-ell]

Can I just say at this point that I am really upset about Jamie Lynn Spears having my first and middle names? 

I wouldn't care if she weren't such a fuck*ng twit.  And I know there are other Jamie Lynns out there, it's not like the first-middle combination is terribly unique, but I hate to see the name being splattered all over the tabloids.  It's...creepy.  Especially now that she's pregnant. 

I fear that there will be a resurgence of Jamie Lynns in the near future, and then I won't be cool anymore. 

Not that I ever was...but at least I had a semi-unique name. 

[smick]

Valentine?

Zebediah

[jaydub]

Zebediah

Ooh, close.   I was thinking "Jubal".

My wife vetoed "Sadie" for our daughter. 

I actually wouldn't have gone for that one, as my great grandmother was named that, and she was apparently a source of terror for my Dad and his brother.

We ended up with Kaitlin, which is a name I've long liked - and is familial as well.  My grandmother was Margaret Kathleen, and apparently Kaitlin (or even more correctly, Caitlin) is an older spelling.  I used to worry her name would be too common, but in the schools she's going to the names are more like Noor, Yasmeen, Aisha, and Ji Yin.

[Golfhaus]

Wow, my name actually cracked the top 20 in 1989-90. I always thought that Kyle was relatively rare. I remember never being able to find any personalized crap when I was growing up. We always had to get stuff with my middle name on it.

I was named after my grandfather, and it looks like when he was born it wasn't even in the top 1000.

My mom had narrowed my name down to Kyle and Eric - my grandmother preferred Eric, so here I is. I've found it interesting since that I was destined to share a name with a South Park kid.

[linnea]

I'm not sure I have a lot of room to talk here, as not only do I have an extremely trendy name (according to this SSA thing, my name was the third most popular the year I was born, and this is borne out with my anecdotal evidence that there were always two or three of us in every class I ever had), but it was inspired by a Barry Manilow song. (Not directly, but in the sense that that's where the name first entered my father's consciousness; I still think that's pretty damning.)

... That came off as a trivia question, didn't it? Oh, well. I can't imagine my name and year of birth are all that hard to derive.

Mandy. It's gotta be Amanda, yes? I love that name, because I had a friend named Amanda who was kickass.

[oball]

My name is Owen, which I'm quite happy with as it's rare enough that I don't often come across others with the same name, but it's also accepted as a perfectly normal first name, so I don't get ridiculed for it.

Oh, and the best way to look at baby name popularity is the NameVoyager.

[littlefallsmets]

Had I known an Owen as a child... I would have definitely inundated him with "Throw Momma From The Train" jokes that almost no one would get and certainly only I would only get.

"OWEN! OWEN, GET ME SCHOME SODA, YOU SCHUPID IDIOT!"

Oh man, how I... and only I... would've laughed and laughed.

[KeithHernandez]

Alright, I did that.  My name has been in the top 15 for a fuck*ng century.  Where are all the Joe's?  My theory is in the suburbs the name of the day is more prominent?  I grew up with blakes and kyles and amandas and and and no joes.

[pmcd9]

The year I was born my name was number 19.  In 2006 it had dropped to 134.  Dang.

Also, If I ever have a girl child she will be named after my great grandmother Amazon Caledonia.  That is non negotiable.

[theinevitable]

hm. I really like old-fashioned sounding names, but I also like really common names.

A girl I know used to date a guy named Archimedes. He is, of course, the smartest fuck*ng guy in the world, so he can pull it off.
I know a girl named Stuart due to a tradition of naming daughters with their mother's maiden name. Again, she is gorgeous, so she can pull it off.

Those of you who have kids-- did you run into problems where you had bad associations with names you liked? There are a lot of names that are ruined for me, I think, because it would be weird to name my child the same as an ex girlfriend, or that kid in high school who blasted Kenny Chesney when pulling his truck into the parking lot every day.

I gave a friend of mine a baby-name book as a joke, where i had gone through and circled names I liked for our child (a really boring and unfunny inside joke which we have continued for some reason for several years.) I seem to recall we settled on Emma or Emily. Something with Ms.

[AugustWest]

Also, If I ever have a girl child she will be named after my great grandmother Amazon Caledonia.  That is non negotiable.

Oh HELL YES!

Fuck, I'm thinking about changing my name to Amazon Caledonia now.

THESE KNIVES!