I have never been one of those people who could stand to wait until the baby is born to A.) Find out the gender or B.) Choose a name. In all four of my previous pregnancies, we’ve known the baby’s sex as early as possible, and a name had been chosen before he/she arrived. We did wait to settle on middle names (he has two) for E until after he was born, but we knew what we would be calling him.
In this pregnancy (19 weeks! Woohoo), we already know via the Chorionic Vilius Sampling test that we are having a girl. So now we are working on choosing a name. Well, I say “working on,” when in fact, we’ve pretty much already decided. Jon and I have very similar taste in baby names: classic with a hint of whimsy. For a girl, I want a name that wouldn’t seem out of place if she becomes a Supreme Court nominee – thus, no “Britnee LaAmber LastName” I also don’t favor names that sound like they are trying too hard. (My grandmother’s classic line on this issue, “One shouldn’t name the baby ‘Whitney’ or ‘Morgan’ unless one actually IS a Whitney or a Morgan.”) Thus, “Vanderbilt McBentley LastName” is also out of the running.
However, even though Jon and I have similar taste in baby naming, his list of acceptable girl names is much shorter than mine. Some of my favorites – Frances, Josephine, Ione, etc – he simply refused to entertain. But in both this pregnancy, and my pregnancy with C in 2007, we did finally settle on a short list of four or five girl names on which we could agree. We both love Emma – and it would go PERFECTLY with H,J, and E’s names – but it’s simply too popular these days for us to entertain seriously. Our other favorites in both pregnancies have been Charlotte, Annabel, Georgia, Clara and Catherine. I let Jon have the final decision out of our short list with C (I was secretly hoping he would go with Georgia) and he chose Charlotte. I was a bit worried after checking the name tracker over at Baby Name Wizard that Charlotte is getting too popular, but we took the plunge anyway and have been quite happy with our choice.
This time, we’re 99% settled on Georgia – Georgia Allison LastName (Allison is my maiden name. You know, from back when I was a maiden.) In case you are concerned about future monograms, Jon’s last name is different from mine, so her initials will NOT be “GAG.” I absolutely love the name Georgia. I think it’s sweet, slightly quirky, classic and feminine, plus it has the necessary gravitas for whatever our baby girl might eventually want to do with her life. As far as how popular it is, well, I have only met one other little Georgia in the past ten years, and although she lives in our neighborhood (and is adorable), she is already in elementary school. My sister met a toddler Georgia the other day, and I have heard of several celebs naming their babies Georgia, but anecdotal evidence and the numbers over at Baby Name Wizard are reassuring in terms of the name becoming the next Emma any time soon.
Yet…yet…a few friends who live in trendier locales, like Brooklyn and San Francisco have assured me that Georgia is one of THE hot baby names of the moment – all the rage. And someone over at my personal blog left a comment about our name choice reading, “Not
that it doesn’t have a nice ring to it, but… are you sure you want to
use a fad o’ the moment name? There are going to be 6 little girls
named Georgia in every class she has.” Could this be true? Six little Georgias in every class? I know that’s not the case here in our neck of the woods, but is there a trend everywhere else that I’m just not seeing and the numbers haven’t caught yet?
Even if Georgia is an up and comer of a name, we’re pretty sure that’s what we’ll be naming the lil bean. We’re already calling her that. C kisses my belly and says hi to “Geooogia!” I think of her as Georgia. But there is that little pesky doubt in the back of my mind that I will end up feeling like the mothers of all those Kimberlys and Heathers in the 70s.
How did you pick your child’s name? Did you worry that it was “too trendy?” Did it turn out to be more (or less) popular than you thought it would? And most importantly, how many Georgias are there at your child’s preschool? Tell me in the comments below.
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My son is James, fourteen months. I hated how popular it is. I wanted him to be Gideon so badly, but my husband vetoed. While James is in the top twenty, and has been forever, I have yet to meet a James under ten, excepting mine, of course. I don’t live in a trendy area. (My neighbors battled over Skylynn for their boys. Loser picked Jaidynn instead. Others near us have had Keera and Xavian.) Still, I don’t think Georgia is too crazy trendy. Use Georgia! Charlotte is much more popular, in theory, and is just as hot with celebrities, if not moreso, than Georgia. If you’re not seeing a ton of Charlottes around, then you probably not going to see a ton of Georgias. I love love love your kid’s names, and I strongly vote that you stick with Georgia!
PS. I’m not sure what state you’re in, but you can check SSA (http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/namesbystate.cgi) to see what falls in your to 100. If you’re in Colorado, like me, we had 84 Charlottes born. There were 170 Mias, by comparison. Georgia didn’t hit the top 100 for Colorado. So, even if Georgia is trendy and is in the top 100, how many are there? What are the chances of yours meeting another one? My James is one of 253 born in Colorado the year he was born. Like I said earlier, still haven’t met a single one from the last decade, let alone the last year.
I always think that you should go with the name you like best. If you’re worried about there being lots of Georgias one option might be to call her Georgia Allison. In other words, make Georgia Allison a double name. That way there might be other little Georgias, but she would almost certainly be the only Georgia Allison. (John Edwards’ daughter is Emma Claire. I’m sure there are tons of other Emmas, but she’s got the Claire to set her apart.) In any case, lots of Georgias is way better than lots of Heathers and I think that’s what’s most important…
Unless there is some reason the name becomes associated with something vulgar or mass murder, I say pick what you like. If there are a ton of Georgias, yours may be the defining one.
i think your kid will never suffer from having a popular name.
We named our 10-month-old daughter Beatrice, and we have yet to meet another PERSON (adult or child) with her name. Everyone loves calling her Bea and “Beebee”!
Like you, I prefer names that are classic but not trendy. Too popular and I just can’t do it. We ended up naming our now two-year-old son Edmund, and we call him Eddie. I haven’t met another Edmund or Eddie that is anything near my son’s age, so I guess I succeeded in avoiding a trend.
we named our firstborn aidan henry…in march 2003, right as the name practically exploded. it was the first boy name we agreed on. i was pushing for henry as a first name but husband didn’t want it and we both liked aidan so aidan it was….for us and, like, 25000 other parents in our county, i think. at one point there were THREE aidans in his daycare class of 12 kids (and 2 logans). anyway, seriously, NOBODY in our family had heard the name aidan and some thought it was an odd choice; even our doula and midwife didn’t know any babies named aidan at that point and they thought it was ‘unique’. ummmmm, right. everyone else evidently thought we were huge sex and the city fans. in reality, the first we’d heard and loved the name was aidan quinn….thought it was unique but not too weird. joke is on us. aidans are EVERYWHERE.
second boy: calum seamus. we call him cal. the name jumped out at me as i was reading an article in the washington post on my way to work one morning and i couldn’t get it out of my head. a week later, a different article, different person referenced with the same name. i took it as a sign, and calum he is. seamus has always been a favorite of mine and my dad’s and brothers’ first names are james (they all have different middle names which they go by so only one of the 4 is ‘jim’…long story but yes all 1st name of james…)and so it honors them as well.
expecting baby 3 and really struggling as a lot of our favorites have been taken by family or are really rising in popularity. we want something nice, not too strange, and not too trendy but some of the classic names are so trendy now! (or have been given to our nieces and nephews already!!) ugh.
as for a variation on georgia, our son’s friend is named georgienne and she goes by georgie. i don’t know any little georgias running around here (maryland) but do know loads of little men called james!
My wife and I struggled similarly with naming our son Jack. Jack is so trendy right now, which really ticked me off, but Jack just felt like the perfect name for him. His real name is John, which is also my and my father’s name, so we needed a nickname for him. Jack is an official nickname for John, and my wife and I both liked the connotations with JFK. We are so happy we didn’t let something as silly as trendiness prevent us from naming our son what we felt was right from the start. You and your husband seem like you’ve put a lot of thought into choosing a name, so any name you pick will be appropriate. The name is only trendy if you allow it to be.
Katie, it may be popular in places like New York and California, but as long as y’all are planning to stay in Knoxville and not leave the South, I don’t think you’re going to find schools/etc. too terribly overpopulated with Georgias in Tennessee.
Other than in the possible exception of Georgia being a family name for some, there’s not likely to be too many Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky, Florida, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, Auburn – etc. – fans living in East Tennessee or anywhere else in the South that would ever name a child Georgia, outside of the state of Georgia. That’s going to rule out a pretty large portion of the Southeastern U.S. population (and especially in Knoxville).
Don’t think you’ve got too much to worry about unless you plan on moving up North or out West.
What I love about Georgia is that it goes so well with Charlotte. It goes well with all of your kids names actually, but somehow Georgia and Charlotte together has a nice ring to it. I don’t think either name is going to be overwhelmingly popular.
Wow, I’m really impressed that you have a name picked out already! I’m a few weeks more pregnant, and we’re at a total loss.
One of the comments mentioned checking the SSA site for names by state, but you can also view national trends. It looks as if Georgia has stayed fairly steady (and not overly trendy!)for the past two years. I wouldn’t worry. It’s a lovely name.
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/
Cannot say that I know a single Georgia under the age of 35 myself (Michigan).
I know one Beatrice – age 5. That’s it.
Naming of “the nut” is proving difficult this time. The usual “not too trendy, not taken by family” applies, then we have the added twists where anything with an “f” or a “v” sound in it collides poorly with our last name, and that our son’s name somewhat rhymes with his cousin’s and we don’t really want to add to that unintentional confuddlement. (His name doesn’t rhyme, but his nickname does)
Oh well. We have around five months to figure this one out
I don’t know of any Georgias hereabouts, Katie. But then what do I know? We named our first born Emily, thinking that it was a classic, never-goes-out-of-style kind of name, old-fashioned without being unusual, without having the slightest notion that it was on its way to being ridiculously popular. Not only are there Emilys everywhere, many of them even seem to have the same middle name (Rose) as well! Not that I would change her name, but I probably would not have picked it had I known because I have a horror of doing anything that makes it look like I am following a trend!
I have a Charlotte that we call Charlie. We are due with a second girl, and I had always thought that Georgia would be a great name for a second since I could say that I had two little girls, Charlie and George. (I’m a sucker for girls with traditionally boys’ names.) Alas and alack, a close friend named her daughter Georgia, so back to the drawing board!
Our oldest, age 10, is Mason. When we chose that name we knew one Mason. After he was born it seems there is a Mason every other week in the newspaper’s birth announcements. That was a little frustrating for us, but what can you do? We liked the name so that’s what we named him. He hasn’t run into another Mason in any of his classes at school, so that has been a minor consolation.
When we found ourselves pregnant again, we chose the name Miles for a boy. It was a contender with our first son and neither of us had really let go of it, so that’s what we chose. Personally, I had expected Miles to be even more popular than Mason, but in our area (central IL) that hasn’t been the case. I’ve not heard of another Miles since he was born and he’s almost 5.
Our choice for a girl both times (we didn’t find out the sex ahead of time) was Afton. Aside from hearing the name in a Bruce Hornsby song (“And Afton, she’d smile…it would last for a while”, Mandolin Rain), we’ve never heard of another Afton.
I think your kids all have beautiful names. I had no idea Georgia was such a popular name. But, if it is, so what? You like it, your husband likes it, it fits in with the rest of your kids’ names…use it! (BTW, your made-up names cracked me up! I needed that little laugh on this dreary Monday morning!)
Not sure that Earth Muffin will see this, but the lyric in Mandolin Rain is “I laughed and she’d smile,” not “And Afton, she’d smile.” I’ve never heard the song before, but after reading the name I had to look up the lyric!
As a “Heather” born in 1978, I think you should go for Georgia regardless of its potential popularity. I don’t mind the popularity of my name among my peers. (JENNIFER on the other hand is just TOO popular so I’m with you in nixing Emma)
Well, I love it! We named our daughter Georgia (mn: Violet) when she was born in May ’09. I too struggled with the classic but not too trendy thing. I hope you aren’t right, and that Georgia is NOT climbing the charts of naming popularity! As a Jennifer born in the late 70′s, I’m kind of banking on it. (-:
I looked at the SSA site – Georgia doesn’t appear to be popular at all, so I’m not sure what you’re worried about. Based on personal experience, I know 2 people named Georgia: 1 is in her 80s, and the other is in her 20s (I live in SC).
My 13-year-old is Emma, and my 8-year-old is Joseph – those are family names, so popularity and/or trendiness were irrelevant in our case. Interestingly enough, my kids go to a small (200-student) school where there is exactly one other Emma (aged 12) and 2 other Josephs (both older than my son).
I don’t have kids myself, but with both of hers, my sister tried for something that was within the range of current but not faddish. She ended up with Bethany and Juliet. I have trouble envisioning an 80-yr-old woman named Bethany, but I’ll be dead when that child is 80 and she can use the nickname Beth (if she wants). All in all, I think my sister ended up with very good names that seem right for her kids. (Kids just seem to grow into just about any reasonable name given them.)
As an Ashley born in the ’80s, I can attest to having a popular name. When I graduated from high school, there were 4 or 5 Ashley B’s, not counting any of the other Ashleys with different last initials. However, I wouldn’t trade my name for anything. It’s what my parents (and older sister, she chose from Ashley, Sarah & Amy) liked best, and that’s what makes a name, not how many others there are in your class. There were times when I resented always being known as Ashley B, rather than just Ashley, but I got over it.
In college and beyond, though, I’ve run into very few Ashleys, my age or otherwise. I’m not quite sure where they’ve all gone, but even if Georgia gets terribly popular, there’s a good chance the other Georgias will scatter at some point.
Name her what you love–she’ll appreciate that more than “We named you Mildred because it wasn’t on the popular name list for the 50 years before you were born.”
There was only ONE boys name that we agreed on and it has been on the top 10 list since the Bible, maybe – Michael. His father’s last name is probably THE most common name ever-Smith. But I’m not really worried about it. I think people try so hard to find unique names these days. That in itself is a fad.
As mom to a Katy, give it up. Their behavior and unique fabulousness is what teachers and friends remember, not the commonality of their name. Go with Georgia, C already knows her as this. AND STOP WORRYING ABOUT BEING ORDINARY! You never could be.
I read somewhere that in Cologne in the middle ages that something like every second man was named “Johannes” . . . and somehow they still managed. As long as it doesn’t get to that point, I think you shouldn’t worry.
Our daughter is Hannah. Never even knew it was one of the most popular names for girls when we were thinking of a name. It’s just a name I’ve always loved. There was really no other name being considered. I love Charlotte and Clara, both are the names of my cousin’s daughters who live in the UK. So those names go together well! Their youngest is a boy named Theo, which I also love. I guess my cousin and his wife have great taste in names!
I do check popularity. In 04 my favorite name was Ava, and then my sister had an Eva and now I am glad she “took it” because we would not have used it anyway. I am 32 weeks now and going with Juliet. We love it, it fits us, it is an alternative of my grandmothers name, and it was important to us that it isn’t too popular. But I LOVE the boy name Owen. I know it is growing in popularity, but wouldn’t be suprised if I used it anyway eventually. I have simply always loved it. But it is difficult when a name you have liked for a long time suddenly explodes!
My son is Nicholas and my daughter Juliette. I love their names. Nicholas has been in and out of the top ten lists, but I don’t mind. I only know one other Nicholas my son’s age. (There is a Georgia in his preschool class though! The only Georgia, adult or kid, I know.) Juliette is simply a beautiful name. Both our kids’ names had to work in French and German as well since my husband is half French and I am German so they had to be easy to pronounce for the entire extended family
I like Georgia! I also like Savannah. My girl (which I’m SURE I’ll have next because I already have 2 boys, right? RIGHT?!) has been named since we were pregnant with #1.
And, like both my boys, the name falls into the “classic” category. Name is pretty high on the list but it’s always been high on the list because it’s classic!
Baby naming is so fun.
Actually, I have a lot of girl names. I need to have about 4 girls. That is not going to happen.
I’m someone who did not choose the name I loved best because at the time I thought it was too popular, and choose some other name that sounded more interesting, it’s a regrettable decision.
I advise you to forget about popularity, it’s nonsensical that you and Jon love the name *Emma* but won’t use it because you think its too popular. Emma is not that popular.
It’s not like Kate or John.
Georgia is a fine beautiful name, but it’s the name of a state.
That could be much worse than a name that is popular.
I know three toddler Georgia’s. I am not sure why people love the name because I’m not at all a fan of place names (Madison, Brooklyn, Savannah, London). Unless the city or state is very special (Paris Hilton was conceived in Paris) to you for some reason, it’s on trend to use a place name. I love Emma or Emmy (like Emmy Rossum). Just my opinion though, if you’re stuck on it don’t go and change it because names are so hard to choose.
We only use family names.
I picked Jessee in 1988, so sorry I did that. Now she goes by Jecee.
To add to what dewi said – just because a name tops the popularity list doesn’t mean there are all that many children with the name. If you go to the SSA site and look at the Tennessee names for 2008, for example, the “Emmas” made up maybe 4% of the girls with the top 100 names. I couldn’t find how many girls in total were born in Tennessee that year – but chances are awfully slim that you’d find six Emmas in a class, much less six Georgias.
My eldest son is named Seamus. No one can pronounce it. people constantly question what it means, why we chose it, etc. When we enrolled him in school we decided to write on his registration that he goes by “Shay” which he often does anyway. It has been so much easier to deal with, but i still wonder to myself why anyone else should have a problem with MY kid’s name. I love Georgia, and think if you like it, that is what matters.
MiaStorm-Aunt Bethany was the old lady aunt in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation!
I think worrying about whether a name is popular or not is sort of ridiculous. Pick a name you like.
We definitely were careful not to choose a too-popular name, but also didn’t want to try too hard. I really love Mathilda and Isobel, but they’re very popular in Oz right now (where we’re from), so I just couldn’t. I also love Jack for a boy and it’s been the most popular name for ages. As a pre-school teacher I’ve seen the pitfalls of having 3 Emmas, Jacks, Isabellas, Henrys, Mias, etc in the class.
We went with Lola because we really love the Kinks song! And the name, of course. Unfortunately we live near the US where people generally don’t know the Kinks, but all know the Barry Manilow “Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl…” Not my favourite. But we don’t mind.
I have a friend with a two year old in Oz called Georgia. For what it’s worth.
I also really love the name Frances, as you mentioned. I love Frankie, but the option of a more elegant and serious Frances.
A different problem is that my favourite boys name is Milo. But in Oz you just can’t shake the association with the chocolate malt drink, Milo. I want to not care, but I just get past the drink!
You could always call her Allison. It was once kind of a popular name but it isn’t really any more, and it’s a nice and old-fashioned Scots name. Btw Emma is the most popular girls’ name in the Christian world. It topped the baby name charts in every European country last year, from Norway to Italy.
Our 2 year old little girl’s name is Raleigh. We wanted something different, but not uncommon. We know a Charlotte, so I was thinking of other cities when I came up with Raleigh. I’ve heard of one other adult woman named Raleigh, and there are a lot of Riley’s in one form or another.
I would just like to add in that as a Katherine, there’s also the effect of similar names on a name’s perceived commonness. In theory, Kate was in the low 200s when I was born. However, Katherine/Catherine/Kathryn, Katie, and all the varieties of Caitlin ranked when I was small. Come high school, I was one of six Kate/Katies in my English class. That’s actually when I had the genius idea of spelling Kate ‘differently’. Emma has the same problem, with Emily being very popular too, even having the same sort of feel as Ava and Hannah. Same with Aidan and friends. However, Georgia doesn’t sound like anything popular that I can think of, so it adds to the distinctiveness of it. Just another two cents there.
Sometimes I suspect that my daughter will think that every mother is named either Sarah or Jennifer. My college had an entire freshman suite (8 girls) filled with Sarahs in the late 1990s.
I’m on Team Georgia…I think it is popular enough that people have heard of it and not so popular that every kid has that name.
I think Georgia is lovely.
We tried to pick things that weren’t too popular and had meaning to us. I suppose they could become popular, but I don’t think you can always predict that.
AAs for what’s popular, my mother has a name that was very common the year of her birth (by the numbers), and yet never met another person with her name until college. So, even if a name does become popular, who knows if it will be popular in your circles? And even if a name isn’t popular, your kid may still be one of a few with that name in his/her class.
I am pretty sure that there is one Georgia in my daughter’s preschool – but it is not a name I hear all over the playground. There are, however, multiple little girls named Amelia. And I am told a couple years ago there were four girls named Ruby. If you like the name – definitely go for it. Georgia and Charlotte sound lovely together.
I wouldn’t worry too much about the name popularity.
My name is Jennifer and I was born in the mid-70s so I was adamant about not giving our baby a Top 10 baby name. But then I was checking out the Social Security baby name lists and discovered that there were over 62,000 babies named Jennifer the year I was born. My mom’s name is Linda and there were almost 100,000 babies named Linda the year she was born. In contrast, there were ‘only’ 18,000 babies named Emma in 2008. There are just so many more names available now that people use. Kids born these days aren’t going to have the problem that they’re one of 8 Jennifers in their class. I would just pick the name that you like best.
We were TOTALLY certain that we were having a girl, we were dreaming of girls, ALL of my family are girls. We were gonna have a girl, if we had a boy we’d just call him Jack or something.
Well then a little something extra showed up on the sonogram. So Jack it was. We officially named him Jackson in case he grows up to be some sort of professional something or other he can have a professional sounding name. But he’s Jack to us. Ya I know its popular, ya I know its trendy but oh well. I had a baby boy named Jack on Halloween. I got my pumpkin king.
Love Georgia. Don’t know any personally but I’ve definitely heard rumblings that it is up-and-coming. I would be surprised if it got too popular. I also love Clara if you are considering a plan B. I tried to get my husband on board with Clara when we were expecting our second, but he wasn’t into it.
Our girls are Lucia and Leah. Loo-see-uh and Lay-uh. Classic names. I think there is a difference between classic and trendy. Go with your heart.
I wouldn’t worry about Georgia’s popularity. I go through birth announcements for my blog, names4real.wordpress.com and I don’t see a lot of Georgia’s. I think it is a lovely name.
Good luck!
Two Georgia’s in my daughter’s relatively small pre-school in Texas. (Also a Beatrice, Nora, and 3 Lila’s. See, not all Jaylon’s and Kaydence’s around here!!) I don’t think it will be the next Emma, but I do think it is an obvious alternative to similar names like Sophia, Olivia, Julia. So parents who love those names but not the popularity could turn to Georgia. As for those who object because it’s a place name, it’s a bit different from Brooklyn or London as Georgia was a person’s name BEFORE it was a place.
I love the name personally. But I HAVE dropped it from contention because of the two I know.
Your philosophy about names was exactly the same as ours… Avoiding the overly-popular name was huge for me — as a Karen who grew up in classrooms that always had at least two, sometimes more, plus a few Erins thrown in. It gets old having to constantly use your last name. I wanted something that would stand up to the “supreme court test” but refused to consider names that sounded like family names (Madison, Dylan, Morgan, Logan, etc.) unless they actually WERE our family names. Oh yeah: and no weird alternative spellings. To me, opting for Makayla or Mykailah instead of the standard Michaela (or the Eastern European but still acceptable Mikhaila) really doesn’t send a message of uniqueness, it sends the message the child’s parents couldn’t spell. (Like if you used Jorja instead of Georgia.) We ended up with a Vivian and a Nathaniel and family names in the middle. So far, we have only met a couple of other Nathaniels (in almost 4 years) and no Vivians (in almost 8 years for her). Everybody can pronounce them, spell them and no one is ashamed of them. My other favorites were Cornelia and Augusta (as a first name, but we used it as a middle instead). I also considered Clara and Octavia as middle names. Charlotte was on our list of middles, but we felt it was too trendy (sorry!) Also, I did know adult sisters named Charlotte and Georgia. I hate to say, but the only way I could keep them straight was that the (quite a bit) heavier one was Georgia. I would think to myself, “A state is bigger than a city. Georgia is bigger than Charlotte.” Hopefully that sort of pneumonic will not be necessary for your girls!
Yeah, late to the name game, but I have an “Elijah Harrison [last name],” a “Gideon Hendrix [ln]” and a “Lukas Hawkeye [ln]“.
I guess our motif is uncommon, but not unheard of first name, followed by an “homage” name (that apparently has to start with “H”.) “Harrison” after the Beatle, “Hendrix” is fairly obvious, and “Hawkeye” is after the Marvel comic character, not the M*A*S*H* character (although both were actually named after the James Fenimore Cooper character…).
Had I not had a husband, I probably would have named the boys (in order of appearance), “Basil,” “Diego” or “Joaquim” for the middle, and the baby probably would’ve been “Xavier.” My husband is apparently a little more traditional than I.
Had we had girls they would have been, “Olivia Parker [ln],” “Ione” or “Nina” (never did pick a middle name that time around) and the youngest would have been “Ramona Holiday [ln]“, but the last one we would have called “Oona” for short.
As far as my Lukas, while I prefer the “normal” spelling (“Lucas”), Lukas with a “K” was his great-grandma’s maiden name, so using that spelling seemed more meaningful.
Oh, I’m with you. I have always loved the name Georgia and just named my six month old that. I live in LA so I’m scared it going to be everywhere, but my OB told me he wasn’t hearing it at all, I hope not. Strangely if we have another girl she will be Jane, because we love it and also after my sister. I may have to stop reading your blog so I feel original!
I, too dealt with not wanting to pick a trendy name. I named my first som Henry James LastName. It suits him perfect and I’ve always loved the name Henry. But for my daughter, born next, I wanted something a little different. My husband wanted the name Elizabeth but that was too popular for me. I heard the name Ellery and I liked it but it was a little too off base for us. We decided on the name Phoebe Rose we call her Be. My last son, which I am pregnant with now, is going to be my last so I want an epic name. I was thinking Quincy Ewin. My husband likes Quincy but not the Ewin. All in all they are not trendy names which is very important to me as my name is Lillian which is not super popular.