I am sooo disapointed!

sorry but i've never concidered ian to be an uncommon name. i've knows lots of people named that. owen was an uncommon name but i find it's starting to get really popular. that's the problem now everyone is wanting uncommon names and picks uncommon so it then becomes common. i picked my daughter's name, kierrah and wanted something uncommon. after i had her i heard of two other kids with that name but spelled differently.

I only know of one Ian and one Owen so I don't think they are that common. My son has a very common name, but he was named after a relative so I don't mind, but his middle name is very uncommon. If my son would have been a girl, he would have been named Isabella, which I'm laughing at now because I think 80% of girls born lately have some form of that name. I think you have some great boys names!

Our son's name is so common that there are usually at one or two other Tyler's in his class. But somehow I think there won't be any Guin's running around, since her full name is Guinevere and most people can't even pronounce it right. I do think those are very nice names for your boys don't worry about if they are too popular it just means you have good taste.

Those are both not surprising they're common, just because of the actors. When my friend had her first daughter, they wanted her to have an older name that wouldn't be super common and initials that wouldn't be something dorky. She ended up with Emily Elizabeth (like on Clifford) and the initials EEG. Oh well. Their next 2 kids were Adam & Joshua, also super common for their birth years...

Yes, I guess those names have become so popular these days. The name Ian is popular even in our country. A lot of boys here have those names. The name Ian would either be their real name or a nickname for the name "Christian". It is really difficult choosing a unique name as every mom wants her child's name to be the most unique among all the others. I had a different way of choosing the names for my kids. I have always considered children as little angels sent from heaven, because they are so tiny, so innocent and so loveable. So when my first child was born, I gave her the name Thea Angela, which means God's Angel. My second child became Tristan Angelo, and my last child's name is Thea Angelee! They are all angels in my eyes! And one more unique thing about it is that it's so easy to keep them all together all the time... I just have to call them all at once "Angela, Angelo, Angelee!" The funny thing about it is when I happen to call them and we're in a public place, people turn their heads to take a look at who I'm calling!

In Britain Ian is very common as it is the Scottish equivalent of John which is one of the commonest names in England. However it is a nice name so I wouldn't worry about that. Owen is not as common but at the same time I would not of thought of it as unusual at all, in fact it is also a Scottish name. Are you Scottish? Again I like the names and they seem like good down to earth names.

Oh do I feel your pain! When I was in college, I would sit and dream about what I would one day name children. I wanted to have my Grandmother's name as a part of a girl's name, but didn't want to actually use the name. My grandmother was Anna. So one day I thought, wow, I like 'Brianna.' When I was pregnant and was told that it was a girl, I was ecstatic. I looked in baby name books and only saw 'Briana' ...not my spelling with two a's. The pronunciation was different too. Wouldn't you know that the month right before the birth of my daughter, Pampers had a commercial on TV where the woman said, "my daughter, Brianna, loves the feel of her new pampers. " The name was everywhere after that. I still named my daughter Brianna as it held such a great meaning for me!

I am suprised they are right at the top. They are common but I didn't think that common. My son has a very unique name but my daughters is pretty common. Paulix and Summer. By the way, where is this list? I would like to see it.

Well those are famous sexy actors names so I see why they are becoming so popular. But I do understand how you wanted your kids to have unique names. I did too so I named my baby girl Kaitlyn except I spell it Katilyn so its a little different. Of course everyone spells it wrong! Amanda www.workathomeunited.com/anix80