Plenty of Todds and Kylies for gen x
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.
Not Ada apparently. Every other Ada I meet is either 5 or 85
I only know Ada Lovlace, the first programmer. Also Ada the programming language.
My former collegue used to work in it and named his daughter after her
I’m so sorry and that’s lovely, in that order.
The Ada programming language being named after Ada Lovelace was like if they named the MS Explorer version of JavaScript “Turing.”
Can confirm: 80 year old names are back in fashion. Every other kid in kindergarten is an Ada, Amelia, (the rest are Bryden, Jaelynn, etc.)
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.
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.
Every Sean I knew who didn’t spell it “Sean” was a total dickhead, putting it slightly less diplomatically but I’ve been drinking.
Derivative or not Sea n is WRONG. 300 years of potato eating destroyed their abilities to spoke
Emily
I know like 10 Emilys it feels like.
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.
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.
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.
I’m born in '78. In Poland I had several Krzysztof in my class, in Germany Daniela and Andreas.
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.
Seems everybody I went to school with was either Matt, Mike, Shawn, Jason or Brian.
Mark
Lee Ann, Cindy, Tammy, Debbie
Steve, Mike, John, Bob
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.
Early 80s maybe 80 or 82
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.
I’d say early gen X
50s?
Makayla, McKenzie, McKenna, Austin, Jayden
