If you have been the arbiter of tasteful baby-naming in 1999, which two names (one male, one female) would you have had people embrace and made more common? Well, at least one name for each gender.
The catch? Your Picks can’t have been in the top 20 any time in the past decade. You can check that quickly here.
Yup. You guessed it. I need to name a fictional kid, and I’m hoping to be inspired
Conan (m)
Lyra (f) (actually my friend just named her daughter Lyra).
Don’t trust a damn word out of my terrible mouth, though, cause I’m going to traumatize my kid, if I ever have one. See, I figured out a long time ago (high school maybe) was that the worst thing I could name my kid was Bart. My last name is Furst.
Bart Furst.
What’s worse is I later happened upon the perfect middle name. Franklin.
Bart Frank Furst
I’m dead serious
I’m picking Nicole and Thomas.
Natalie and Duncan.
My child was born in 1991 so I’m a few years out of your survey era but in the 90’s if you swung a stick you would have whacked a Courtney or Jack or Sam across the head.
Corey and Britney.
Just kidding.
Mark and Amanda.
I guess it was roughly ten years ago that I was in love with the names Jasper and Alanna.
Hunter, my little guys name
(Disclaimer - I didn’t check the site.)
Nathan for a boy, maybe Benjamin.
I’m leaning towards Claire for a girl, but I think that name’s rising in popularity. Same with Abby. So, you’re on your own for a girl’s name.
I have a 10 year old son and a daughter a few years older, so I’ll abstain but let you know if their names show up here. So far I’m fairly confident that neither is top 20 and probably not top 100 material.
My daughter is about that age and has a friend named Clarice. Always liked that one and its unusual. Cecilia is another favorite of mine. I doubt either of them show up in the top twenty.
Friends named their sons about that age Liam and Owen.
I like the suggestions so far 
I really like Owen, but I already have a character named Owen.
Our kids were born in 1998 and 1999, so they’re 10 and 9 respectively. I like their names: I’ll also abstain, since they’re right in the survey line. Neither have come up yet. The best ranking for our son’s name was #76 in 1958: the best for our daughter’s name was #333 in 1961.
I don’t understand on a thread asking for 10-year old names why people are saying their kids are 10 but they won’t share the names? Why not? That would specifically answer the question. Don’t post that you have a perfectly acceptable answer to the question but just aren’t willing to share it.
Tegan and Ian. Both are names I suggested when my ex was pregnant with what I thought was my child.
She wound up going with Samuel, for what it’s worth.
Cecily and Ethelred. I always wanted to name a girl Cecily. Ethelred is a good Anglo-Saxon name that’s hasn’t gotten enough attention over the last 1000 years.
Ethel and Wilbur.
Solely for the reason that, by the odds, at least one sexy, uber-popular model or actor of the 2020s would have a name out of a 1950s sitcom.
Thus do the wheels turn.
In my son’s case, the name is in the top twenty and not worth mentioning for this purpose. I do mention my kids by name on the internet - but rarely - you can probably search it up if you really had a burning desire to know. I go by a screen name here, and try to extend the same basic level of privacy to my children.
Same here: plus, my daughter’s name is pretty unusual for a 9 year old today, so she would be easy to look up.
