Plenty of Todds and Kylies for gen x
Names that end with en like Kayden, Jayden, and Hayden. Raiden was never part of it unfortunately.
Be the change! Name your kid raiden :D
Nowadays everyoneThe kid’s peers would think you got it from Genshin Impact.(Edited - I failed to write what I meant at first)
You serious?
Edited: Actually you’re right about what I wrote at first, I fixed it to what I meant, and the below is an elaboration on what I meant, not what I first wrote.
Imagine 15 years from now you ask a fifteen-year old who Raiden is. They probably won’t have heard of Mortal Kombat unless there’s a huge resurgence in the franchise.
That might be the case if you ask one now.
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.
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.
Emily
I know like 10 Emilys it feels like.
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.)
Gen x here. Lots of Jennifer and Melissa.
Yep. And Tom, Bob, Rob, Bill, John and Steve.
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.
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.
I went to school with more fucking Jennifer’s and Christopher’s
90s baby?
1980
That checks out.
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?
Graduated high school in 1975. BTW my niece has a Camden and a Corbin. My daughter is named Chelsea.
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Makayla, McKenzie, McKenna, Austin, Jayden
Lilly, Luna, Sarah, Zoe
As a trans woman who dates t4t, this is basically 50% of their names.
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
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There were 4 or 5 Jason’s in my kindergarten class.
