Plenty of Todds and Kylies for gen x
Makayla, McKenzie, McKenna, Austin, Jayden
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.
I’d say early gen X
Early 80s maybe 80 or 82
50s?
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.
Names that end with en like Kayden, Jayden, and Hayden. Raiden was never part of it unfortunately.
Be the change! Name yoir kid raiden :D
Nowadays everyone would think you got it from Genshin Impact.
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.
There were 4 or 5 Jason’s in my kindergarten class.
I personally know a lot of aging 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.
There were already two, Michael last initial and Mike last initial in my English class that i had to go by last name.
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
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…
French, old millenial. Plenty of Jean-“X”. What I mean is :
Jean-François Jean-Michel Jean-Luc Jean-Mathieu Jean-Marc …
Gen x here. Lots of Jennifer and Melissa.
Yep. And Tom, Bob, Rob, Bill, John and Steve.
Lilly, Luna, Sarah, Zoe
As a trans woman who dates t4t, this is basically 50% of their names.
Not Ada apparently. Every other Ada I meet is either 5 or 85
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.)
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.”
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 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.
Emily
I know like 10 Emilys it feels like.
The amount of Cody and Chris’s I know is surprising. I’ve also met plenty of Daniels and Tonys.
Which generation and where are you located? Cody is quite a unique name in my world.
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.
Derivative or not Sea n is WRONG. 300 years of potato eating destroyed their abilities to spoke
Every Sean I knew who didn’t spell it “Sean” was a total dickhead, putting it slightly less diplomatically but I’ve been drinking.
