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.
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.
Gen x here. Lots of Jennifer and Melissa.
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.)
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.
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.
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 were 4 or 5 Jason’s in my kindergarten class.
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
Also a millennial and I had five Matts in my class in college out of about 30 students.
I’m born in '78. In Poland I had several Krzysztof in my class, in Germany Daniela and Andreas.
Makayla, McKenzie, McKenna, Austin, Jayden
Seems everybody I went to school with was either Matt, Mike, Shawn, Jason or Brian.
French, old millenial. Plenty of Jean-“X”. What I mean is :
Jean-François Jean-Michel Jean-Luc Jean-Mathieu Jean-Marc …
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.
