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Plenty of Todds and Kylies for gen x

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[–] Fake4000@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Names that end with en like Kayden, Jayden, and Hayden. Raiden was never part of it unfortunately.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

Be the change! Name your kid raiden :D

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[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] flubba86@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I personally know a lot of millennials named Megan (Meagan, Meghan, Megyn, et al)

There's too many Megans, right?

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You remember my wife, Megan Duffy, maiden name Duffy, hopefully no relation.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 4 points 9 months ago

That line is funny by itself, but how he delivered the "hopefully no relation" part so casually made it 10x funnier.

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 17 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I know like 10 Emilys it feels like.

[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Gen x here. Lots of Jennifer and Melissa.

[–] RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Yep. And Tom, Bob, Rob, Bill, John and Steve.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not Ada apparently. Every other Ada I meet is either 5 or 85

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I only know Ada Lovlace, the first programmer. Also Ada the programming language.

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My former collegue used to work in it and named his daughter after her

[–] PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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.”

[–] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

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.)

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm born in '78. In Poland I had several Krzysztof in my class, in Germany Daniela and Andreas.

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[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There were already two, Michael last initial and Mike last initial in my English class that i had to go by last name.

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Michael.... Bolton? Wow, is that your real name?

[–] radix@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.

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[–] brokenlcd@feddit.it 3 points 9 months ago

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

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] livus@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

Probably late Gen X. Kylie was popular in Australia but went global with Kylie Minogue in Neighbours.

[–] subspaceinterferents@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 4 points 9 months ago

Sometime in the last hundred years?

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago
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[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I went to school with more fucking Jennifer's and Christopher's

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Makayla, McKenzie, McKenna, Austin, Jayden

[–] faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As a trans woman who dates t4t, this is basically 50% of their names.

[–] Nevrome@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

French, old millenial. Plenty of Jean-"X". What I mean is :

Jean-François Jean-Michel Jean-Luc Jean-Mathieu Jean-Marc ...

[–] Usually_Lurker@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

There were 4 or 5 Jason’s in my kindergarten class.

[–] Lemming421@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] sylphrin@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 3 points 9 months ago
[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Seems everybody I went to school with was either Matt, Mike, Shawn, Jason or Brian.

[–] CharlesReed@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The amount of Cody and Chris's I know is surprising. I've also met plenty of Daniels and Tonys.

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[–] __@fedia.io 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Born 1981. Daniels and Todds abound.

Lots of Kylies, and the like, along with plenty of the traditional Sarahs and the like.

[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 9 months ago

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.

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