Let's hear it for Gaelic - fully half the names in the top 20 boys names are Gael, including Aiden at #1. I have to say that even I've noticed a preponderance of Aidens the last few years.
It's interesting to me, having gone through the exercise twice and seen many others do so as well, how picky we are as modern people about children's names. It seems to me that, for the most part, parents want to name their kids something that sounds nice - maybe even *means* something nice - but not any name shared by anyone they know. So you get waves of names - a few years where lots of people are naming their daughters Ashley (for instance), until those girls grow old enough to make an impression on people, whereupon expectant parents say "Oh, we couldn't name her Ashley - I knew an Ashley, and she was a brat."
As if one's impressions of some acquaintance would overpower the personality of one's own child! Ridiculous, and yet I see it everywhere.
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It's interesting to me, having gone through the exercise twice and seen many others do so as well, how picky we are as modern people about children's names. It seems to me that, for the most part, parents want to name their kids something that sounds nice - maybe even *means* something nice - but not any name shared by anyone they know. So you get waves of names - a few years where lots of people are naming their daughters Ashley (for instance), until those girls grow old enough to make an impression on people, whereupon expectant parents say "Oh, we couldn't name her Ashley - I knew an Ashley, and she was a brat."
As if one's impressions of some acquaintance would overpower the personality of one's own child! Ridiculous, and yet I see it everywhere.
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