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If you want to try to avoid giving your child a name that half the other kids in their class will share -- and I had this problem so I can tell you how annoying it is to a child -- check out the Social Security baby name website, which lists the top 10 most popular baby names, at http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/
You can check by state and can check your own name for popularity over time. (Mine was third most popular in my birth year.)
Last year Madison and William were the most popular names in Georgia.
Also you can look up the 1,000 most popular names for any year going back into the 1800s. This is a great way to get name ideas, too.