What are the stereotypical or super common names for your generation?
What are the stereotypical or super common names for your generation?
Plenty of Todds and Kylies for gen x
Used to work in a fairly high end ski hotel. In February we would get dozens of little kids all going for ski lessons. I used to label their skis so they wouldn't get mixed up, but I always had to also ask the surname so I could write "Olivia T, Olivia M, Emily P, Olivia B, Emily H, Emily S" then start on the boys "Tom D, Tom A, Oliver G, Tom J, Oliver H...."
Also when someone asked me to get their luggage from the car - "It's a black Audi"
You don't fucking say. Which of the ten black Audis is it, Oli?
Don't get me started on the number of Toms, Olivers, and Olivias at my daughter's school.
When these kids start working in offices, is going to usher back in the day of calling all co-workers by their surname "Hey Jonson, I have that report for you from Smith. Thanks Brown."
I think they used to do that back in the 70s and 80s because everyones firsnames were all James, and Peter.
I personally know a lot of millennials named Megan (Meagan, Meghan, Megyn, et al)
You remember my wife, Megan Duffy, maiden name Duffy, hopefully no relation.
That line is funny by itself, but how he delivered the "hopefully no relation" part so casually made it 10x funnier.
Apparently, looking at a government website:
Jennifer Jessica Amanda Sarah Melissa
Michael Matthew Jason Christopher Joshua
And this 100% lines up with my classmates', friends', and family members' names.
Emily
I know like 10 Emilys it feels like.
Gen x here. Lots of Jennifer and Melissa.
Yep. And Tom, Bob, Rob, Bill, John and Steve.
Not Ada apparently. Every other Ada I meet is either 5 or 85
There were already two, Michael last initial and Mike last initial in my English class that i had to go by last name.
Michael.... Bolton? Wow, is that your real name?
Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.
There was nothing wrong with it, until I was about 12 years old, when that no talent ass clown started winning Grammys...
In my class there where two loosely related cousins with the same name and surnames; we went with name and birth year to differentiate them
I'm born in '78. In Poland I had several Krzysztof in my class, in Germany Daniela and Andreas.
I've worked with a lot of poles around that age, and at least two of them were named Krysztof or a variation thereof.
Brandon, Ryan, and Aaron for guys, Christine, Sarah, and Kat for girls. Kat gets more of a mention here because it's a short version of Kate which is a short version of Kathy which is a short version of Katherine. And when you combine those, that's like 50% of every generation.
Wait, Gen X had all the Kylies? That sounds characteristically Gen Y/Z.
Probably late Gen X. Kylie was popular in Australia but went global with Kylie Minogue in Neighbours.
Guess when I was born... Went to school with James, William, Dan, John, Joseph, David, Elizabeth, Lisa, Margaret, Debbie, Carolyn, Bonnie, Susan, Karen, Michael, and Peter. Most of the Karens I knew were nice people. They don't deserve the bad rap.
Sometime in the last hundred years?
Those dude names are common across generations. Debbie and Lisa were popular baby names in the 50s & 60s, Margaret and Carolyn too. I'm guessing you graduated high school around 1975-1980.
Early 80s maybe 80 or 82
I'd say early gen X
50s?
Early 1960s
Graduated high school in 1975. BTW my niece has a Camden and a Corbin. My daughter is named Chelsea.
Lilly, Luna, Sarah, Zoe
As a trans woman who dates t4t, this is basically 50% of their names.
Makayla, McKenzie, McKenna, Austin, Jayden
French, old millenial. Plenty of Jean-"X". What I mean is :
Jean-François Jean-Michel Jean-Luc Jean-Mathieu Jean-Marc ...
I think there were six Rachels in my year at school. And apparently if I’d been a girl, that would have been my name too…
There were 5 or 6 Sarahs in my english class in high school.
There were 4 or 5 Jason’s in my kindergarten class.
Millennial here, I've noticed a lot of Stephanies, Sams, Alexes, Chloes, and Michelles. Matthew seemed like a particularly popular one - at one point we had 3 Matthews in the same class (about 25 students), and I had 2 Matthews in my immediate friend group in college.
Edit: Rachel/Rachael was another common one, had a couple of those in my friend group at one point too
Also a millennial and I had five Matts in my class in college out of about 30 students.
Born 1981. Daniels and Todds abound.
Lots of Kylies, and the like, along with plenty of the traditional Sarahs and the like.
I was born in 80 and idk if I've ever even met a Todd. Maybe it's a regional thing? In Connecticut it was Christopher and Jennifer.
In NJ it was Katherine/Katie, Jennifer, Jessica, Melissa, Heather, Stephanie, and there were a fair number of Tiffanys too. Soooo many Chrises, plus Matt, Jason, Rob, Nick, Alex.
The amount of Cody and Chris's I know is surprising. I've also met plenty of Daniels and Tonys.
Which generation and where are you located? Cody is quite a unique name in my world.
Elder Millennial, Central US. I know three Cody's personally and two by acquaintance.
Seems everybody I went to school with was either Matt, Mike, Shawn, Jason or Brian.
Luke!
Lee Ann, Cindy, Tammy, Debbie
Steve, Mike, John, Bob
Far too many of the classmates I had in high school who had kids hella early all named their kids "Jayden" if it was a boy or "Skylar" if it was a girl.
Mark
Sean when it should be Shawn or Shaun. Not Sea with a N
Shawn or Shaun were "derived" from Sean, Irish for John. Putting it diplomatically.
