Plenty of Todds and Kylies for gen x

  • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
    7·
    5 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.

  • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
    7·
    5 months ago

    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
      5·
      5 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.

        • PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world
          3·
          5 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
      4·
      5 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.)

  • shyguyblue@lemmy.world
    English
    3·
    5 months ago

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

      • shyguyblue@lemmy.world
        English
        2·
        5 months ago

        There was nothing wrong with it, until I was about 12 years old, when that no talent ass clown started winning Grammys…

    • brokenlcd@feddit.it
      1·
      5 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

  • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
    2·
    5 months ago

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

  • Lemming421@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 months 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…

  • sylphrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 months 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

  • subspaceinterferents@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 months ago

    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.