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Be careful going by those lists of common names. They are drawn from the nation as a whole, not from your community, or the social circles you will be travelling in. A name that is number 73 on that list may very well be a top ten name in your community.
In 1999, we didn't want our daughter to have a common name. We researched the lists. We wanted to name her after my grandmother, Isabel. Isabel, the year before she was born wasn't even in the top 100 names. But Isabella was something like number 98. We figured it would be fine. The only Isabel I knew was the next door neighbor's ten year old daughter. Well, after naming her Isabel, we have found out that it's a faily common name around here. She's already been in classes with other Isabels, where the teachers had to use their full names to call on them. And they named a freakin' hurricane after her. She didn't like that.
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