My son is named Henry. I LOVE his name and have yet to come across one in real life.
Henry is popular here! There were two in my DD's pre-K class of 17! We also have two family friends DS's named Henry. It also seems to be a popular middle name as we know several including our godson.
My DS is Aaron Mitchell. I know, nothing unique. However, I am really like Cooper. I told my DD's one has to have a son named Cooper. Anyone want to guess our last name?
Other names:
Garrett
Shannon
Wade
wow...names and the evolution of all of them different and/or unique...
When I was a teen (some 40 years ago) I remember a friend's mom naming their daughters Megan and Kaitlyn...wow, those I thought were just so different and so unique and soon after every little girl WAS Megan or Kaitlyn...
Fastforward: I opened this Thread at my ripe old age of 52yo to see what the latest new unique names are out there.
As far as my DS' 24yo Christopher Brett and DS 20yo Michael Patrick....both very simple/easy to write/easy to say and yet I absolutely the names...AND just so funny as my two went through school...many of their friends would have a bro Chris or a bro Mike... Two first names that I think I will continue to see for a long time.
I actually cannot think of any at this hour but it's so very funny to see what is common and uncommon based on area! SO MANY of these are really popular around here or at least not so uncommon that they are considered unique. It amazes me.
When we had our DS, we threw around names like Holden, Everett, Cain, Alister, Elijah.....
We settled on Peter Jacob (Peter is my DS's name), but call him PJ.
Honestly, DS has been in several gym classes since he was born and now preschool and we haven't met another Peter OR a PJ. Peter, while once common, is quickly becoming uncommon (though not necessarily unique).
We have "Alden Hunter". Never heard either name used commonly -- that is until he was born. Then, I found even girls named Hunter. And on TV - an "Alden" who won a spelling bee contest.