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Hmmm. That's really hard... I'm torn between wanting my kids to stand out (not have 5 kids in their class with their names), and wanting the names in this country to just be better. :P

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Let's see... my top twenties would contain (perhaps not in this order, but something like this):

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Elizabeth (all the nicknames make this perfect)
Sophia, Olivia, Emily, and Sarah can stay
I'd love a bigger revival from the beginning of the century: Emma, Ella, Anna, Maude / Maud, Alice, Lillian, Rose, Grace, and Marie
Mary, Ruth, Margaret, Jane, Eva, and Janis (just because I love Janis, but probably wouldn't use it)

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William, Thomas, Nicholas, Anthony, Alexander,
Benjamin, Adam, John, James
An Ed- name, not necessarily Edward though (Edgar would be excellent)
George, Rupert, Julius, August, Lee, Peter,
Jacob can stay, but not as number 1
A name that's become more a girl's name (though perhaps not Ashley... Casey and Courtney, maybe?)
And Larry, to go with Janis (;])

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