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My suggestion is to hit up the Social Security Administration website: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/. Go back a century (or to some era of choice), walk the list, find one that you like that isn't even in the top X these days and you'll be fairly safe. You'll end up with a reasonable, not-ridiculously-unique name that this generation mostly doesn't have (the site has recent years and names don't usually go from unlisted to popular overnight).

> the popular girl's name of the decade, apparently.

Keep in mind, in the internet era it can actually be nice to have a bad-SEO common name (though that's often dependent upon surname too).



Most of those names no longer in use will be strongly associated with the particular historical period, usually not what you want


this is what we did, and we get so many compliments on the names. works very well




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