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Plenty of Todds and Kylies for gen x

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[-] Fake4000@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Be the change! Name your kid raiden :D

[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~Nowadays everyone~~ The kid's peers would think you got it from Genshin Impact.

(Edited - I failed to write what I meant at first)

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[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 18 points 1 year 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.

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 1 year ago

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

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] EmilyIsTrans 16 points 1 year ago
[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I know like 10 Emilys it feels like.

[-] ada 15 points 1 year ago

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

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 5 points 1 year ago

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.”

[-] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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.)

[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gen x here. Lots of Jennifer and Melissa.

[-] RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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

[-] radix@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] brokenlcd@feddit.it 3 points 1 year 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

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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

[-] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

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

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 1 year ago

Sometime in the last hundred years?

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 3 points 1 year 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.

[-] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'd say early gen X

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[-] FairycorePhoebe 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Makayla, McKenzie, McKenna, Austin, Jayden

[-] Lemming421@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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…

[-] livus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

There were 5 or 6 Sarahs in my english class in high school.

[-] Nevrome@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] sylphrin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 1 year ago
[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] __@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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 1 year 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.

[-] CharlesReed@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

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

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