It's a game you can't win. My first daughter's name was a compromise, the only one my husband and I could agree on. We thought it was fairly obscure, but by the time she was three, it was the #1 one girl's name. My second daughter got a classic name I picked twenty years earlier (Daddy relented on that one), but it, too, was the #1 name within a couple of years.
My niece got a very obscure family name that had been used only for men. It was unique until someone famous gave it to their son ten years later.
SNL premiered as I was going into my senior year in high school. Later that fall, my family was contacted about doing a Nielson rating week. We had two TV sets, so they gave us two diaries to keep. No one ever watched the old black and white set, but it had its own diary. I made it a point to be home by 11:30 that Saturday night so that diary could have one show on it.
I don't even recall the title of my only published science paper (it's been a loooong time), but I'm sure it was very boring, because my advisor dictated it.
My niece got a very obscure family name that had been used only for men. It was unique until someone famous gave it to their son ten years later.