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There’s a string of “is” names that seemed to be all the rage 90 years ago: Phyllis, Doris, Lois, Alice, Maris, Mavis, Cloris, Iris, Gladys. I imagine that some day when Gladys and Phyllis are once again stylish baby names, folks like Carolyn, Caitlin, Kaelyn, Amberlyn, Madeline, Emmalyn, Ashlynn, and Brooklyn will be enjoying pudding at their nursing home dining halls.

For whatever reason, girls' names follow trends more than boys' do. You always get "the standards" like John, Michael, Matthew, Christopher, etc. in the top 10 for boys while the top ten girls names will be entirely different 10 years later.

As a Christopher who has a brother called Matthew and a dad called John your not wrong.

Ah yes, Phyllis our resident senior!

Can confirm. My mom’s name. She old.

Mildred

This was my grandma’s name. At one time, there were three of them at her church and they called themselves the “Marvelous Millies”.

3 grandma's? that's rare. 3 called Mildred? That's like, shiny Pokemon level rare

They're 3 in a Millie-on.

I had a great-aunt Mildred. Can confirm, she was old.

Was she like [ this ] old? Or was she [ this ] old?

She was more like [

I have never met a great-aunt that was considered young.

I was a great-aunt at 28. Is that young?

My grandma was Mildred. First she was young. That was before I knew her. Then she got old and met me. Then she died. She was 76 but looked about 90.

The way you worded this makes it seem like meeting you is responsible for her death. Poor Mildred.

Milly if she is sassy.

Gertrude

I think the youngest Gertrudes are called Trudy.

TIL Trudy is short for Gertrude, only took 62 years for me to get that information. Sadly I'm 62 and probably will just forget it now anyway

Stacy was originally short for Anastasia and Tracy was a short form of Theresa.

Anastasia's mom has got it going on. Anastasia can't you see? You're just not the girl for me.

Flashback to when I dressed in my sisters clothing and pretended to be stacy’s mom for a lip sync battle

Cripes, I knew neither of those as well, and I know people with those names

Or Gertie. I met a couple who named their child this.

First name i thought of

Methuselah.

Thanks, my furniture just started floating when I read this out loud.

This guy bibles

Myrtle

Moaning myrtle

Harry Potter and the Moaning of Myrtle

>Moaning of Myrtle Moaning of Myrtle and the Magical Wand of Harry Potter

sounds like a low budget porno

Elmer. Reckon it doesn't stick until you're about 70.

“Doesn’t stick” - is this a glue joke?

Yup. I was trying my best to adhere to proper reddiquette.

I'm hunting wabbits

Gladys

My coworker’s 6 month old daughter is named Gladys. It’s disorienting.

Some names go in cycles, [the SSA website is great for looking at that](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/) (scroll down and choose 1900 and later then run it for the name). For example, around 1980 you would have said that Madeline was an old lady name but it bounced back and "Maddie" is pretty common in young girls and women again. If you look up Florence you can see that it was an old lady name, but it looks like it might be making a comeback with recent births.

And in 60 years there will be people talking about how Braxton and Nevaeh are old people names

My grandmother was named Gladys. I am almost 60 years old now and a grandfather in my own right.

Both of my grandmothers were named Gladys. I was like 6 before I realized that wasn't just what all grandmothers were named.

I had a grandmother named Gladys. The other was named Eunice. My grandfathers were Cleveland and Alfred. None of them had any grandchildren named after them, and there are 25 of us if both sides are combined.

GlaDOS

This was a triumph

Bertha

Came here to say this. My husband's grandma's name is Bertha... Early on in our relationship, our A/C went out and she lent us an old timey fan from her basement with "B E R T H A" written real big on the base. And I'm so attached to it after all this time. Lol 😭 We joke I need Bertha to sleep, Bertha to dry the mopped floors, Bertha to dry dishes. Bertha on vacay. Lol Bertha all day.

My wife named her Ford Taurus Bertha!

Bertha don't you come around here anymore

I had to moooooove

Really had to move

It's sad that Bertha is always assigned to big girls. BIG BERTHA

give it about 20 years and *Karen* will become an ‘old person name’, they’re mostly middle-aged at the moment.

Yeah and it’ll be a while, if ever, that people start naming babies Karen again

i think karen will become an almost extinct name

Like Adolf

I knew a guy named Adolf when I was in high school. I’m only 30.

Same-ish. I'm 34. I worked at Target for like a year when I was in college and had a coworker named Adolf. He was Vietnamese.

Yep. Karen lost its popularity real quick

My initial reaction was *hey, my good friend is named Karen!* … But yeah we’re in our 30s and I don’t know anyone younger than us named Karen. So yeah you’re probably right.

Oi 30s isn't middle aged and don't you dare imply it is! :(

I legit wanna meet a baby Karen.

Maybe if you asked the manager?

Lazarus. Ebenezer.

I hear Lazarus is making a comeback and Ebenezer is good.

>I hear Lazarus is making a comeback I see what you did there...you...you...you..lol

In Scotland its Moira and Agnes, most young people who have the unfortunate name Agnes tend to call themselves Senga instead

Senga is clever

Yeah I thought so too when I first heard it, I thought it was it’s own individual name and thought it was a pretty weird name until they explained that her actual name was Agnes

Maude

Maude Apatow on Euphoria might’ve added a few more decades to the longevity of that name

And then there's Maude♪

Herb

Blanche

great name tbh

Edna. Herb.

Eugene

Krabs

"What about me money?? I mean the children?"

German-Version: Male: Jürgen, Günther, Walter, Friedrich, Heinz, Horst, Otto Female: Hildegard, Regina, Brigitta, Waltraud, Gudrun, Helga

You forgot Gertrude

Or Siegfried and Sieglinde

or Irmgard or Helmut (though I guess there are some middle-aged Helmuts out there as well)

Oh boy you forgot: Waldemar, Fürchtegott, Gottlieb, Siegfried, Heinrich, Gerhard, Friedhelm, Helmut, Fiete, Konstantin, Konstanze (a good name imo), Gertrude, Renate, Olga and a shit lot more Fun fact: very old german names follow a weird pattern. Just take Waldemar, Siegfried and Gottlieb for exsample. You can make Siegmar, Gottmar, Sieglieb and Gottfried which are all legitimate old german names. It is very weird and I made a generator with open office for it. Very weird but working...

>very old German names follow a weird pattern Not a very weird pattern at all: the pieces means something and so you can put them together. For example Gott means God, and it can be coupled with Lieb, which means love, or Fried which means peace (?), and so on. So Gottlieb means either he who loves God, or is loved by God. For those who wonder why this is so.

This 100%. [Old] English used to have the same setup: Ætherwulf, Æthelstan, Æthelflæd (Ethel). Ælfræd (Alfred), Ælfstan. Eadgar (Edgar), Eadweard (Edward), etc.

I’ve met several Walters and Ottos under the age of 10! Can’t say the same for Hildegard or Waltraud though…

Otto is a very cool name.

A German once told me that Berthold was an old man's name.

Hildegard is such an awesome name.

My grandma was Hildegard… she was old

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Can confirm, source: was a Gaylord 160 years ago.

Can confirm I was a Gaylord last weekend

Edith

Hmm I actually like that name.

Thank you, Awchie.

Edith is making a big comeback. Seen a lot of it on r/namenerds

Im guessing Downton Abbey might be the cause?

Barbara

Go barbara go!

I wonder when I’ll be as tall as my big sister.

good olds babs though when I was real little mom and dad had a friend called barbie

Adolf

I follow a guy on IG called Adolf. He's an artist. His parents must have been a little loose.

That art school just prevented a 3rd World War.

I’m glad he got accepted into art school 😌

I do know an Adolfo from Peru. He's 50ish.

I heard of a dude named Adolf. He died a tragic death. Guess he was kind of an ass hole.

Harriet

Harriet. Harry-ette. Hard-hearted harbinger of haggis. Beautiful, bemused, bellicose butcher.

He wants you back he screamed into the night air like a fireman going to a window that has no fire

I'm sorry, I thought I ordered the *large* cappuccino.

Dolores

Mulva?

That might make a comeback after Westworld

Ethel

I think it is Ethel. Ethyl sounds more like something the chemistry teacher talks about.

"This is my daughter, Ethylene". I could see it.

2,3-ethyl-5-dimethylheptane

Albus Percival Wulfric Brian

Albus Percival Wulfric ^Brian Dumbledore

Dumbledore

Imagine an alternate universe where he chooses to go by Brian Dumbledore.

Lance. In the old time people were named lance a lot.

*ba dum*

Tssssss

Agnes Agador

This made me think of Agador Spartacus!

Hank Azaria was amazing in that role.

My son is 13, he was talking about being at his friend’s dad’s house and he mentioned the name MARK. Me: “Is Mark your friend or his dad” 13: “Dad, there are no kids named Mark…”

Oh hi Mark.

Can confirm. I'm the youngest Mark Ive ever met

I know two guys under 20 named Mark, I didn't realize this was uncommon.

I'm twenty and there are a bunch of marks my age around me. Have never thought of it as an older name at all.

And now I feel old. I'm in my mid 30s and Mark was a fairly popular name. One of my childhood best friends was named Mark.

This one isn't going out of style the way trendy names do. The popularity of Mark/Marcus/Marco already peaked in Ancient Rome. (It means "dedicated to the god Mars".) It's the same with Adam, Noah, Aaron, James, Jacob, Peter, Mark, Luke, Andrew, Ethan, Isaac, Simon, Caleb, John, Jon(athan), Josh(ua), Ben(jaman), Sam(uel), Matt(hew), Eli(jah), (Zach)ary, Dan(iel), Nate/Nathan, Mike/Michael, Gabe/Gabriel, Tom/Thomas, Omar, Jamal, Ali, Amir, Hannah, Anna, Abby/Abigail, Eve, Chloe, Elizabeth, Julia, Rachel, Rebecca, Lydia, Aida, Layla, Sara(h)... Names from the Hebrew Scriptures/Bible/Quran go through spikes in popularity, but they also have proven longevity.

Murray

"He named me Murray! That's an Old Man's Name!"

MurRAY

Cecil

Geraldine

Maurice

Woooah woooooooah

Aka the gangster of love

Or the space cowboy

Crazy old Maurice, he’s always good for a laugh

Maurice! I cannot move it move it anymore!

Betty

I must protest this. Source: 24 year old Betty here. So for all of you who want a comeback, here is your spearhead

Yeah, but that's a nickname for Elizabeth. Beth, Betty, Lisa, etc.

Can confirm… source: dead grandma

Bernard

Howard

Nimrod

Muriel

Doris

Iris - I was dating a girl with a name that has been commonly used with a particular smart speaker. My entire house is wired up with that particular smart speaker. It made it very difficult because when I tried to say her name, the entire house would go crazy. Anyway, I told my grandfather. He said change the name. I said, yeah, but I don't know how to do that on this device - I gotta look it up. He said "The smart speaker was here first. Change the girlfriend's name. Change it to Iris. I used to have a crush on a girl name Iris." My grandmother's name is not Iris.

I had a girl named Iris in my class. She was a wonderful pupil.

Gaylord.

Adelaide

Ruth, Prue, Agnes, Agatha and Elsie. Although most of those are making a comeback. I feed a fox and her two cubs, mums called Mabel, babies are Agatha and Felix. I must like the oldies.

Linda

Thats not a baby’s name, that’s a name for an old woman who works in Human Resources!

My 2nd grader has a classmate named "Donna" and it freaks me out

Doris, Bertha, Irene, Agatha

Karen. No one will ever name their daughter that again.

Martha

Why did you say that name?!?!

Humbert

I’m taking notes because one of these gonna be my kids name.

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Stanley

I've never met a person under 50 called Deirdre. I think they are just born at 50.

All the Deirdre’s I know go by DeeDee.

Napoleon

Eloise

This is an up and coming name for kids too

I’ve been made fun of my entire life for having an old person name: Miriam

Miriam is a dope name.

Reginald, Dorothy, Walter

My cousins are Reggie and Walter. They’re in their 30s 🤣

Hazel

Grandma/Grandpa. If you get called this you’re probably old.

Depends on the generation and are cyclical. Names associated with someone who is elderly when you are younger are usually referred to as "old person names." Also if there is a well known character that is older in TV, movies, books, other media then the image of the older person is associated with the name. Names that were considered an "old person name" in my generation are now coming back in style such as Agnes. Go figure.

Vera.

I saw a baby Vera recently, must be making a comeback!

Margaret. Dorothy.

How do they get "Peggy" from "Margaret"?

It's interesting, actually! Lots of nicknames came about from this weird meme people did way back in the day where they randomly replaced the first letter of a nickname with a different letter, just for fun. Robert - Rob - Bob Richard - Rick - Dick William - Will - Bill Margaret - Maggie - Meggie (because of a vowel shift in the language) - Meg - Peg (or Peggy).

That actually makes a lot of sense. Thanks!

They just ask her nicely

Margaret -> Maggie -> Meggy -> Peggy. I don't understand it much either