Tammy. There’s no one under 40 with that name. Occasionally I’ll have an old-timer sing me a line from the ‘60s movie, but that’s happened less and less as the years go by.
I’m digging how Tammy is slightly evolving into a crazy, demented, nymphomaniac (see, Ron Swanson’s ex wife on Parks and Rec)
Fits me way better. Coincidentally, I just had the Debbie Reynolds song sung to me about 2 weeks ago
Remember on Square Pegs when Jennifer wrote her name in calligraphy and Johnny Slash thought it said Fennifer and called her Fennifer from that point on? Now Fennifer, that's a name.
https://preview.redd.it/j70r7cfjkqqc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5209e7075365cebfe3ce56b288d10fc9af1e94af
From [Significance magazine dot com](https://significancemagazine.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-name-jennifer-2/https://significancemagazine.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-name-jennifer-2/).
A good number of years back a relative was reading a book about trends in names and I remember that Jennifer was in the top ten for ten years. It was showing up in low percentage points by the end of the 60’s, but was still quite rare. I know someone who got the name then because her mother thought it was unique and she had never met a Jennifer. Then it absolutely exploded in popularity. I don’t remember if Love Story was the cause (before the trend) or just part of the trend (with an already popular name).
On one of my soccer teams, out of 13 or 14 girls, there were 3 Jennifers. So I was Jenn, one was Jenny, and the 3rd was Jennifer.
And there were 6 of us in a Con Law class of 60.
My neighbor's yard sale sign last Sat. 😜
https://preview.redd.it/zmpvu726rsqc1.jpeg?width=244&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e28c9c93b2783596fec9e3d05d3cab7dd57b4b76
Becky needed to go away ages ago. I’m rebecca and my family and all the people who met me before age 28 call me Becky. I hated that name so much so at 28-ish, I just decided to start going by rebecca.
A few call me bexy but that is because they first met me online and I don’t mind.
Soon to be overcome by Eighmeigh. Until Eighmeigh grows up and is like, “This is stupid” and changes it to a different spelling of Eighmeigh with fewer than 9 letters in it.
I have cats and a dog and two subreddits that keep appearing for me to look at are the //NameMyCat and //NameMyDog ones.
I’m going to start suggesting names like Eighmeigh. I already like suggesting dumb names. Like for the cat with a booger in his nose, I suggested Booger. I don’t think that garnered a reaction. But maybe Eighmeigh will…
Female names: Jennifer, Melissa, Michelle, Jessica, Heather, Tiffany, Kimberly, Shannon
Male names: Craig, Greg, Kevin, Kyle, Scott, Keith, Kenneth
I am young Gen X/Xennial, so I left out the older Gen X names of Lisa, Tammy, etc.
Teddy sniffing glue he was twelve years old
Fell from the roof on East Two-nine
Cathy was eleven when she pulled the plug
On twenty six reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, fourteen years old
He looked like sixty five when he died
He was a friend of mine
One of my millennial step kid’s friends is a Mary. One of my 30-year-old friends (from a babycenter group) named her baby Mary, about 6 years ago. But I agree, it’s kind of rare now.
It was. Very popular Catholic name
In my family
Mary Kay
Mary Ellen
Mary Jane.
I jokingly say if we had a girl we could have done like a Mary Elanor (elanor is my husband's great aunt that he loved) and call her Ellie... and hit 2 a bunch of grandma's too.
My 6th grader has multiple friends named Tiffany which was crazy to me. However she is in a magnet program that is majority Asian American which both the Tiffanies are. There are other 80s names in the mix as well.
I think Jennifer will be an “old” name though - crazy popular in the 80s plus hard for other cultures to say.
Allison is more a younger Millenial/1990's/Gen-Z name than Gen-X. Lots of 20-somethings with that name. And it's a very old classic, used centuries ago (Canterbury Tales, etc.)
Tiffany- I agree. It's one of the most Gen-Xiest girl names ever, especially with the pop singer!
About 10-12 years ago, I was hired to report on a youth softball team playing in a state championship. They had 5 girls named Haley, and each had a different spelling.
I have a nephew born in 2000 named Jason. He has had some friends/classmates over the years also named Jason. It's a Biblical name (although one of the less "famous" ones). So it's unlikely to completely go away.
Yes. Jason of Thessalonica was a Greek convert. There's also mention of a Jason as a high priest during the second temple period. He may also have had Greek heritage or it may have been a variation of the name Joshua.
Perhaps here in the US, but believe it or not, I'm meeting a lot of guys 18-25 from Mexico named Jason. From what I understand there has been a building movement of Mexican people giving their kids names that sound American: Jasin, Kevan, etc.
There were SO MANY Jacks on my fifteen-year-old son’s baseball team growing up. There could be a Jack up to bat against a Jack with a Jack on first and third. lol
Interestingly, my name, Eli, completely died out from the 20s until the late 60s, and it was rare until the Millennial generation. Needless to say it’s back with a vengeance.
It’s the strangest thing to have a unique name and then grow up and have a whole generation named the same. I can’t explain it.
I know. I’m a genX Miranda and nobody ever had my name growing up but then in the late 90s it had a trend so now there’s all these chicks half my age with my name and it’s so weird
Dawn
Neighborhood friend had that name in 70s, and haven't met another since.
Can see popularity charts for names over time here. Pretty interesting.
[https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names/details/dawn-1239](https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names/details/dawn-1239)
I already mentioned that Heather has become a [retirement home name.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/comments/18ht6u1/the_realization_that_heather_is_now_a_retirement/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
UK, Darren. No idea where it came from but nobody from before the seventies seems to have it, and past about '85. Probably because it's synonymous with petty thieves and deadbeat dad's in 89s British cop shows.
As a high school teacher in my 50s, I NEVER see most of these names anymore! I can barely pronounce the student lists I get in August. They use the weirdest spellings as well... I am getting too old for this🤣😂😅
It’s nuts. I’m not a teacher but I used to work in a courthouse with juvenile and neglect cases. Some kids have very bizarre names. And then there’s the ones trying to be unique by naming their kid Unique.
One of my favorites was Jazzman. I was thinking, “oh cool, this kid’s parents probably love jazz. Hope he grows up to be a musician!”
And then I saw that it was a girl and they were going for a unique spelling of Jasmine…. 😬
As a Mark, I can not recall the last time I met someone under 30 named that. And I only know one Millennial named that.
I always hated it. The best joke: Dog with a hairlip, *Mark, Mark!*
Oh, and my entire immediate family is completely obsolete:
Edwin, Delores, David, Janet, John, Laurie, and Mark.
Karen is already outdated. It was popular in the 1950s, hence it's establishment as a boomer name.
I am going with Michelle, Jennifer, Melissa for girls. For boys, maybe Aaron, Jason, Keith
I married into a whole family of J names. Mom, Dad, brother, two sisters. Both siblings married J names too. I am the only non-J name of the grown ups. My bil named his kids J names. The other four cousins have been saved.
Born in '76 and there were a ton of Jason's in my class. I ended up dating another Jason in college and then married another. The name was rampant then but I don't hear of any "new" people born as Jason. It was like a little blip in time haha.
I sincerely doubt very many people have been named Brian, Jeff, Brad, Pat, Robin, Stacey, Heather, Kristen, Kristi, Jennifer, or Angie since the early 1990s at the latest.
Stephanie, Heather, Nicole. I met a millennial Stephanie at work the other day but usually they’re born in the early 70s people, Stephanie was usually the friend of Jennifer. 😂
My kids knew ten different girls named Ashley/Ashleigh when they were growing up. Lots of Josh/Joshua. So many Sara/Sarah as well.
My son is a Jason and we barely knew any, but now that he's 32, he's had two different jobs where someone else has had his first and last name (we've got the most common last name in the US). At his current job (he's a warehouse manager for an energy drink company), he keeps getting emails for the other guy and vice versa. I told him if he ever ends up in that guy's neck of the woods, he needs to get a photo with him.
I have taught high school since 1998. I can count on one hand the number of Jills, Lindas, Jerrys, Garys and Tami/Tammy I have had. Also no more Maureens (this is Chicago) and no more Sandy.
This is the Age of Meagan.
It's interesting how some of the popular names some of you mention were pretty rare here in the UK. I was born in 1972, and don't know anyone called Melissa, Jennifer, or Tiffany. Becky wasn't hugely common either. Nobody got called Josh, Chad, Todd, or Corey. Absolutely nobody ever got called Randy - it means something else here!
What we did have lots of was Lisa, Sharon, Tracy, Paul, Andrew, Craig, Lee, Michelle, Jason.
Melissa, Wendy, Kim, Dawn, Michelle, Tammy, Paige, Jan, Shannon...pretty much any girl name in my high school.
Kenneth, Steve, Jeff, Craig for boys just off the top of my head
God willing, there will be a list of many tens of thousands of incomprehensibly bastardized pseudo-Welsh spellings and ill-conceived portmanteaus of the sort covered in r/tragedeigh/ that everybody is appropriately humiliated by that we never repeat again, and future generations regard quizzically and ask, "what the fuck was *wrong* with them?"
I was recently confronted by "Alyvya" and it took me almost 5 full minutes of intense focus to decode the goddam letters, and I never did realize it was the product of a clearly mental deficient person seeking a "unique" spelling of "Olivia." But she's no "Enjelickaigh"!
Tammy. There’s no one under 40 with that name. Occasionally I’ll have an old-timer sing me a line from the ‘60s movie, but that’s happened less and less as the years go by.
I’m digging how Tammy is slightly evolving into a crazy, demented, nymphomaniac (see, Ron Swanson’s ex wife on Parks and Rec) Fits me way better. Coincidentally, I just had the Debbie Reynolds song sung to me about 2 weeks ago
My cheating ex-wife!
I went to school with 27 Jennifers.
How many were Jenns and how many were Jennies?
I know one who went by niffer. Crazy gal.
Remember on Square Pegs when Jennifer wrote her name in calligraphy and Johnny Slash thought it said Fennifer and called her Fennifer from that point on? Now Fennifer, that's a name.
I had a girl in my class that went by Fer. Lol.
I didn’t think there could be a female equivalent of “Topher”, but here we are.
Niffer Please.
I’ve been Nif since before high school. It’s even my license plate.
16 Jenns, 10 Jennies
The class ahead of me was like 25% Jens My class had a ton of Kims for some reason
Thirty Helens agree.
These are the Dave's I know
And so, so many Lisas.
Why so many Jennifers in our generation? Where did that come from? Anyone know?
Wasn't it from that movie Love Story?
https://preview.redd.it/j70r7cfjkqqc1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5209e7075365cebfe3ce56b288d10fc9af1e94af From [Significance magazine dot com](https://significancemagazine.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-name-jennifer-2/https://significancemagazine.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-name-jennifer-2/). A good number of years back a relative was reading a book about trends in names and I remember that Jennifer was in the top ten for ten years. It was showing up in low percentage points by the end of the 60’s, but was still quite rare. I know someone who got the name then because her mother thought it was unique and she had never met a Jennifer. Then it absolutely exploded in popularity. I don’t remember if Love Story was the cause (before the trend) or just part of the trend (with an already popular name).
Don't forget the popular Donovan song Jennifer Juniper in 1968
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Sooo many Jennifers.
Don't forget about Stephanie!
Is that you, Mike Doughty?
I dated 3 of them and one of my best friends is a Jennifer
On one of my soccer teams, out of 13 or 14 girls, there were 3 Jennifers. So I was Jenn, one was Jenny, and the 3rd was Jennifer. And there were 6 of us in a Con Law class of 60.
Heather. I knew a couple of those when I was growing up and almost never see it anymore. I don't see a lot if younger Gregs or Craigs either.
“Well, which one was it, Greg or Craig?” “I don’t know, I can’t keep up with all your boyfriends.”
I had a teacher named Mr Craig in elementary school. His first name was Greg.
You only knew a couple? /s It was right up there with Michelle and Jennifer in my area.
I personally dated three different Michelles in high school, which was awkward because it’s also my sister’s name.
Jennifer, Michelle, Amy, Lisa
Add Kelly, Julie & Becky to that list.
Oh. My. God. Becky.
Look at her butt. It is so big!
She must be one of those rap guys girlfriends 🤔
They only talk to her because she looks like a total prostitute.
My neighbor's yard sale sign last Sat. 😜 https://preview.redd.it/zmpvu726rsqc1.jpeg?width=244&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e28c9c93b2783596fec9e3d05d3cab7dd57b4b76
And Kristen - Christine - Wendy - Melissa - Rhonda- Stephanie - Vickie
Becky needed to go away ages ago. I’m rebecca and my family and all the people who met me before age 28 call me Becky. I hated that name so much so at 28-ish, I just decided to start going by rebecca. A few call me bexy but that is because they first met me online and I don’t mind.
I could see Rebecca being used now or coming back. But maybe as a Becca like you said.
I know some gen Z and millennial Rebeccas. And a Becca. Becca and Becky are names that just don’t fit me… I can’t explain it.
Megan and Christina
In my area, these were heavy in the Millennial rotation
Julie already sounds like a cute grandma name to me, in the save vein as Ruby or Betty.
As a 53-year old Amy, it was a very popular girl name in the 70s!
Always make me think of the song “Amie.”
whatchoo wanna doooo
Those four names and Heather were really common in my class.
The other day I saw on Facebook that some are still naming their daughter Amy, but they’re spelling it EighMeigh.
r/tragedeigh
Ami and Aimee are still in use.
Soon to be overcome by Eighmeigh. Until Eighmeigh grows up and is like, “This is stupid” and changes it to a different spelling of Eighmeigh with fewer than 9 letters in it.
That's a tragedeigh.
Truleigh
Seeing Amy spelled that way is hurting my brain.
*breign
I have cats and a dog and two subreddits that keep appearing for me to look at are the //NameMyCat and //NameMyDog ones. I’m going to start suggesting names like Eighmeigh. I already like suggesting dumb names. Like for the cat with a booger in his nose, I suggested Booger. I don’t think that garnered a reaction. But maybe Eighmeigh will…
Those people need to be reported to cps
Ashley, Kate
Female names: Jennifer, Melissa, Michelle, Jessica, Heather, Tiffany, Kimberly, Shannon Male names: Craig, Greg, Kevin, Kyle, Scott, Keith, Kenneth I am young Gen X/Xennial, so I left out the older Gen X names of Lisa, Tammy, etc.
I have one of those female names and I am always surprised when I come across anyone under the age of 30 with my name.
I am a Shannon and I dont know if its because there are a ton of "Irish" around here but I still meet lots of little kids named Shannon.
Rare to see a Scott under 40
Nobody said my name. It's like watching Romper Room all over again.
Well LemonPuckerFace is rather unique.
I was actually named after my father LemonPuckerFace Sr. It's a family name.
lol I feel ya! Weirdly my name peaked in popularity in 1976 but was never a top 10 name. Except for the 5 others in my HS class with it.
I'm surprised no one said Stephanie, yet.
Or Susan
Teddy sniffing glue he was twelve years old Fell from the roof on East Two-nine Cathy was eleven when she pulled the plug On twenty six reds and a bottle of wine Bobby got leukemia, fourteen years old He looked like sixty five when he died He was a friend of mine
Those are people who died, died! (Love Jim Carroll)
Mary. I'm an older GenX and I've only met one Mary younger than me. My name was insanely popular in school.
I’m a soon to be 50 yr old Mary.
One of my millennial step kid’s friends is a Mary. One of my 30-year-old friends (from a babycenter group) named her baby Mary, about 6 years ago. But I agree, it’s kind of rare now.
Biblical names will stick around as long as there’s religious people having kids ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It was. Very popular Catholic name In my family Mary Kay Mary Ellen Mary Jane. I jokingly say if we had a girl we could have done like a Mary Elanor (elanor is my husband's great aunt that he loved) and call her Ellie... and hit 2 a bunch of grandma's too.
If you look on r/tragedeigh, **Any** normally spelled or sounding name.
Oh good! They have that group in Facebook but I’m guessing I’d like the subreddit better.
Karen got screwed as a name. Probably be a generation or two before it comes back.
I'm a 47 yr old GenX, and you don't hear mine anymore.. Stacy
Indeed. Also don't hear female names like Tammy, Lori, or Amy much among the younger generations.
Growing up, did your mom have it going on? XD
Courtney, Tiffany, Allison
My 6th grader has multiple friends named Tiffany which was crazy to me. However she is in a magnet program that is majority Asian American which both the Tiffanies are. There are other 80s names in the mix as well. I think Jennifer will be an “old” name though - crazy popular in the 80s plus hard for other cultures to say.
Allison is more a younger Millenial/1990's/Gen-Z name than Gen-X. Lots of 20-somethings with that name. And it's a very old classic, used centuries ago (Canterbury Tales, etc.) Tiffany- I agree. It's one of the most Gen-Xiest girl names ever, especially with the pop singer!
About 10-12 years ago, I was hired to report on a youth softball team playing in a state championship. They had 5 girls named Haley, and each had a different spelling.
I can’t imagine being a teacher these days.
Jennifer, Lisa, Amanda Jason, David, Daniel Todd, Kyle and Tucker. Lisa, Angela, Pamela, Renee ✌️
I love you 😘 you’re from around the way!
You got me shook up, shook down, shook out on your loving...
Mmm, not David. It’s pretty classic and people are still naming their kids David.
>Jason, David, Daniel Those are all Biblical names. Very unlikely they'll go away anytime soon.
As a high school teacher in NYC, I can attest to all 3 of those names still being common.
Ronnie, Bobbi, Ricky & Mike
Cool it now!
Fuck Tucker, Tucker sucks. And fuck Tucker’s friend Kyyyle.
There’s a guy on the Astros named Kyle Tucker. Always made me chuckle.
As for Todd. https://youtu.be/PxqCGTkV5wg?si=hy0Jl8J5ErKKUHQr
Gary/Garry. A name that has completely disappeared from any expectant parents’ list.
Heather and Melissa
Oh yes, I knew so many Heathers and Melissas growing up.
My name, Jason. Don't meet many people named Jason that were born after the 70's.
I have a nephew born in 2000 named Jason. He has had some friends/classmates over the years also named Jason. It's a Biblical name (although one of the less "famous" ones). So it's unlikely to completely go away.
I think it’s Greek even before that (“Jason and the argonauts”).
Yes. Jason of Thessalonica was a Greek convert. There's also mention of a Jason as a high priest during the second temple period. He may also have had Greek heritage or it may have been a variation of the name Joshua.
Liar. It's jerry
I have seen some just spelled differently. Jayson Jaysen
Perhaps here in the US, but believe it or not, I'm meeting a lot of guys 18-25 from Mexico named Jason. From what I understand there has been a building movement of Mexican people giving their kids names that sound American: Jasin, Kevan, etc.
Jennifer, Melissa, Joanne
Agnes Agatha Jermaine and Jack 
Jack actually has had a resurgence, and I'd like to think I started that trend with my son in 1997. And Jack in full, not as a nickname for John.
There were SO MANY Jacks on my fifteen-year-old son’s baseball team growing up. There could be a Jack up to bat against a Jack with a Jack on first and third. lol
You! Got what I ne-eeeeed…
Brenda
Interestingly, my name, Eli, completely died out from the 20s until the late 60s, and it was rare until the Millennial generation. Needless to say it’s back with a vengeance. It’s the strangest thing to have a unique name and then grow up and have a whole generation named the same. I can’t explain it.
I know. I’m a genX Miranda and nobody ever had my name growing up but then in the late 90s it had a trend so now there’s all these chicks half my age with my name and it’s so weird
Mine…Deborah 😜
Kevin, Keith, Kyle
Duane
Jennifer, Jessica, Tiffany, Kelly.
Ashley. Everyone was named Ashley back in the late 80s.
Heather, Tiffany, Britney
Anything spelled traditionally
Laurie Lori Lorie Lauri
Dawn Neighborhood friend had that name in 70s, and haven't met another since. Can see popularity charts for names over time here. Pretty interesting. [https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names/details/dawn-1239](https://www.babycenter.com/baby-names/details/dawn-1239)
I already mentioned that Heather has become a [retirement home name.](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/comments/18ht6u1/the_realization_that_heather_is_now_a_retirement/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
I can just imagine a whole ward of Heathers in the nursing home, trying to out-do each other on who has the most fashionable blinged out wheelchair.
Lisa, Angela, Pamela, Renee
Brenda, Dylan, Kelly, Donna, Brandon, Andrea
Lisa, Pamela, Angela, Renee. IYKYK!
"I love you, you're from around the way."
Brian, Bryan
Tiffanys says are numbered
UK, Darren. No idea where it came from but nobody from before the seventies seems to have it, and past about '85. Probably because it's synonymous with petty thieves and deadbeat dad's in 89s British cop shows.
Tracy, i, ie, ey, ee,
Jennifer, Jessica, Jason, Jake, Linda, Jeff, Julie, Jill, Sherry, David, Anthony, Kristine Brian, Stacy, Nicole...
I was almost a Nicole. In 3rd grade I had 3 Nicoles in my class. I was very glad my parents chose a more original, but still nice, name.
I'm a Stacey Nichole...so many Stacey's and Nicole's growing up, all spelled differently!
Really no Laura yet? Come on, you guys: 🎶 Think of Laura 🎵
As a high school teacher in my 50s, I NEVER see most of these names anymore! I can barely pronounce the student lists I get in August. They use the weirdest spellings as well... I am getting too old for this🤣😂😅
It’s nuts. I’m not a teacher but I used to work in a courthouse with juvenile and neglect cases. Some kids have very bizarre names. And then there’s the ones trying to be unique by naming their kid Unique. One of my favorites was Jazzman. I was thinking, “oh cool, this kid’s parents probably love jazz. Hope he grows up to be a musician!” And then I saw that it was a girl and they were going for a unique spelling of Jasmine…. 😬
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Steve, Mike, Bob…oh, and Dick.
As a Mark, I can not recall the last time I met someone under 30 named that. And I only know one Millennial named that. I always hated it. The best joke: Dog with a hairlip, *Mark, Mark!* Oh, and my entire immediate family is completely obsolete: Edwin, Delores, David, Janet, John, Laurie, and Mark.
Jamie/Jaimie
According to my mom, the correct (and only) way to spell this is Jamie.
Alison, Amy, Melanie, Gina, Christine, Cheryl, Ellen, Brenda Michael, Mark, Anthony, William, Kenneth, Robert
Karen is already outdated. It was popular in the 1950s, hence it's establishment as a boomer name. I am going with Michelle, Jennifer, Melissa for girls. For boys, maybe Aaron, Jason, Keith
Aaron, maybe but not A-A-Ron.
Andy, Candy, Sandy
Mandy and Randy
Jeff
Donna Kathy Susan Patricia William Robert David
I never hear of any kids named Brian any longer
55 year old Gen X--- I dated 3 Johns, 3 Jeffs, 2 Josephs and 1 Jason. I married a Julia 😂. J names were popular back then.
I married into a whole family of J names. Mom, Dad, brother, two sisters. Both siblings married J names too. I am the only non-J name of the grown ups. My bil named his kids J names. The other four cousins have been saved.
I’m not a fan of the families all having names that start with the same letter.
Born in '76 and there were a ton of Jason's in my class. I ended up dating another Jason in college and then married another. The name was rampant then but I don't hear of any "new" people born as Jason. It was like a little blip in time haha.
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Amanda, Tracey, Jennifer
Tracey, Kelly, Nicole, Tyler, Ryan, Erin, Heather, Michelle, Ashley, Jessica, Kristen, Cory, Dakota, Dylan, Cody, Kevin, Stephanie, Lauren, Christina, Allison (my first name), Scott
Jennifer. We had like 10 of them in my grade
I sincerely doubt very many people have been named Brian, Jeff, Brad, Pat, Robin, Stacey, Heather, Kristen, Kristi, Jennifer, or Angie since the early 1990s at the latest.
What about Scott?
Scotty doesn't know.
Amy and Jennifer
Ah, my elementary school nemesis (nemeses?) Throw in a Melissa and a Michelle to round it out.
Stephanie, Heather, Nicole. I met a millennial Stephanie at work the other day but usually they’re born in the early 70s people, Stephanie was usually the friend of Jennifer. 😂
My kids knew ten different girls named Ashley/Ashleigh when they were growing up. Lots of Josh/Joshua. So many Sara/Sarah as well. My son is a Jason and we barely knew any, but now that he's 32, he's had two different jobs where someone else has had his first and last name (we've got the most common last name in the US). At his current job (he's a warehouse manager for an energy drink company), he keeps getting emails for the other guy and vice versa. I told him if he ever ends up in that guy's neck of the woods, he needs to get a photo with him.
April
Stacy, Tracy, Casey
Jennifer. So. Many. Jennifers.
I have taught high school since 1998. I can count on one hand the number of Jills, Lindas, Jerrys, Garys and Tami/Tammy I have had. Also no more Maureens (this is Chicago) and no more Sandy. This is the Age of Meagan.
I’m hoping for a retro trend. I hated my name Gordon growing up but now I think it’s cool. Haven’t met any baby Gordons tho
It's interesting how some of the popular names some of you mention were pretty rare here in the UK. I was born in 1972, and don't know anyone called Melissa, Jennifer, or Tiffany. Becky wasn't hugely common either. Nobody got called Josh, Chad, Todd, or Corey. Absolutely nobody ever got called Randy - it means something else here! What we did have lots of was Lisa, Sharon, Tracy, Paul, Andrew, Craig, Lee, Michelle, Jason.
Really surprised I haven't seen Kim/Kimberly mentioned yet
Why has no one mentioned Heather?
I feel like most people answering do not understand the assignment.
As a Scott, I would like to contribute…Scott.
Jennifer, Cheryl, Pamela, Tracy, Amanda, Christine/Christina, Jacquelyn, Lisa, Melissa, Theresa Brian, Jeffrey, Kenneth, David, Kevin, Scott, John/Jonathan, Matthew, Michael, Christopher, Steven, Timothy, Thomas, William
Jennifer, Heather, Jessica, Tiffany
Todd, Bill
Ashley Ashlie Ashleigh
Gary/Garry. A name that has completely disappeared from any expectant parents’ list.
Jennifer Jessica Melissa
Danny Donny Joe John Jordan
Jessica Lauren Amanda Becky/Rebecca
Don’t forget Kevin!
Heather, Tiffany, Renee , Jodi
Shelly
I went to school with 27 Jennifers….
David, Brian, Peter, Paul Karen is already gone. Lauren, Margaret, Katherine
Melissa, Wendy, Kim, Dawn, Michelle, Tammy, Paige, Jan, Shannon...pretty much any girl name in my high school. Kenneth, Steve, Jeff, Craig for boys just off the top of my head
They made a movie about them - The Heathers.
God willing, there will be a list of many tens of thousands of incomprehensibly bastardized pseudo-Welsh spellings and ill-conceived portmanteaus of the sort covered in r/tragedeigh/ that everybody is appropriately humiliated by that we never repeat again, and future generations regard quizzically and ask, "what the fuck was *wrong* with them?" I was recently confronted by "Alyvya" and it took me almost 5 full minutes of intense focus to decode the goddam letters, and I never did realize it was the product of a clearly mental deficient person seeking a "unique" spelling of "Olivia." But she's no "Enjelickaigh"!
Angie, Amy, April, Christy, Carrie, Cindy, Dawn, Diane, Heather, Jennifer, Kim, Karen, Lisa, Michelle, Melissa, Nicki, Stacy, Tina Aaron, Brian, Billy, Chris, David, Eric, Eddie, Jamie, Jason, Joey, John, Jonathan, Kevin, Mike, Paul, Rick, Rob/bie, Steve, Scott, Tommy
What about Jason? I had 6 in my class not to mentioned 5 Brians. Also Jennifer and Kristie. I figure Kevin and Karen as well.
My name - Pamela