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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
We named our first son Benjamin and at the time it was barely top 20 and he's already got two friends named Ben and as you can see by the list it's gotten more popular. I was always a fan of the name and nobody used it when I was a kid and now there's going to be a generation of them.  I think you have to go out of the top 50 to get a name that's still pretty normal and you are safe from him/her having multiple friends of the same name. |
And give them a middle name that's a backup they can use if they want. Our son's middle name is Diego after my wife's dad, uncommon enough that he can use it when he's older if he wants to pursue the whole half-latino-gets-all-the-girls option.