Sigh...DH and I have always picked names we liked for DS, DD and now for Number 3 without looking at lists or anything, and each time have found out after we had our hearts set on them that they were all in the Top 10 or 20 baby names for that year.

But we couldn't change our minds despite that, we'd picked the names ourselves and we loved them regardless.

So my kids are bound to double up first names with someone somewhere. But that doesn't particularly bother me because I grew up with a very unusual surname and somewhat uncommon first name and I got so sick of correcting the spelling and pronunciation that I craved a nice, ordinary name. I actually think that giving popular, conventionally spelled names is doing them a favour in my book. They might not though!