Names that end with en like Kayden, Jayden, and Hayden. Raiden was never part of it unfortunately.
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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
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.)
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.
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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.
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I went to school with more fucking Jennifer's and Christopher's
Lilly, Luna, Sarah, Zoe
As a trans woman who dates t4t, this is basically 50% of their names.
Makayla, McKenzie, McKenna, Austin, Jayden
There were 4 or 5 Jason’s in my kindergarten class.
French, old millenial. Plenty of Jean-"X". What I mean is :
Jean-François Jean-Michel Jean-Luc Jean-Mathieu Jean-Marc ...
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
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…
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The amount of Cody and Chris's I know is surprising. I've also met plenty of Daniels and Tonys.
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Seems everybody I went to school with was either Matt, Mike, Shawn, Jason or Brian.
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.
Luke!