This blog has moved! Please join us over at!  Friday, July 9,
2010  Baby Naming Issue: Avoiding the Trends  Tricia writes: I
have recently realized that my husband and I have had a
repeating problem with names. We have three children, Aidan (b.
1995), Ava (b. 1996), and Jasper (b. (2004). When Aidan was
born, the name was number 461 on the SSA. My son has never met
another Aidan in his life, and he has certainly never had to use
his last initial in school. But my younger son started
kindergarten this past year, and there were three Aidan's in his
class. And four Ava's!! Four! (let me mention that when Ava was
born, the name was number 2657 on the SSA. Nowhere near the top
1000. But now that I look, it is number 18!!!). Right now,
Jasper is still in the 300s, but it has risen over 200 since my
son's birth, and I suspect it will continue to rise.  Anyway,
the point of all that, is that I am due with my last child (a
girl) on July 25th, and I am refusing to let that happen again.
I know that my kids don't necess