Anyone else’s partners baffled to find out names they like are super popular?

baby names have been my weird interest since childhood, the SSA name list being dropped is like my Super Bowl. I’m one of those annoying people who won’t use a top 10 name, no matter how much I like it. I’ll admit I am a snob about that.

My fiancé is super sweet and mentions names he likes and lets me go off on tangents about name trends.

We were watching Oliver and company, and he goes “Oliver’s a nice name! What do you think? That can’t be popular.”

Had a similar conversation about Eleanor, which he was distraught to find out was as popular as it is. we ended up using it for our kitten!

I sometimes forget that not everyone is a namenerd and super aware of popular names. He’s always so surprised to find out how trendy certain names are! I have to remind him that we don’t know any children, so it’s not too surprising we don’t know any Eleanors or Olivers, LOL. But it’s also really wholesome that he tries to engage and let me nerd out. Anyone else have experiences like this?:)