maybe brock or allen. i dunno, infamous names in this generation.
Like the rapist Brock Allen Turner?
Rapist Allen Turner, aka rapist Brock Turner, who got a 6-month slap-on-the-wrist sentence for what his father called (and I quote) “twenty minutes of action”? That rapist Allen Turner (aka rapist Brock Turner)? The one who only served 3 months?!
Todd Kyle Chad
Ryder and Luca
these are common‽
Tabithas everywhere in schools today.
What schools are those?
Middle schools where my wife works.
Kevin
Holly sounds like a sweet name now, but you can almost feel it become the next Nancy.
Any of the popular biblical names like John, Mark and Paul.
I’d argue that those names are the least likely to decrease in popularity, unless Bible following religions become significantly less popular.
Every Paul I’ve ever met has been an unrelenting asshole.
Chad
Renesmee, Nevaeh, Demure, Brightly
Kaleesi, too. Anything that is popular because of media
Anything that is popular because of media
So pretty much every Western name ever?
I was going to say every Western name in the last century or so, but then I realized how many names are biblical, and the Bible is a book, which is also media…
Let’s say you want to find what will be an “old person’s name” in 2060. What you do is subtract 60 from 2060 => 2000. Then go to google and type in “most popular baby names year 2000”
pick the first 10 or so and those will be “old person’s name”
When I was in school every third girl was named Jennifer and every third boy was named Christopher. Don’t really see either of those nowadays. I’m in my 40s so they’re about 15-20 years from being old people names.
Also Karen. The internet ruined that name.
When I can finally have a cat, it will be named either Jennifur if female, or Christofur if male.
I find it funny to name my cat after very common human names, although these names are not so common were I live, that would avoid some friends or family members to feel offended I name my pet after them.
All of them?
Seems like there’s a way to analyze this in a systematic way, from social security name data. Any name that popped up as a newly popular name and fell back off within a decade or two would probably eventually become a marker of that generation.
Gladys was popular between 1900 and 1920, and became known as an old lady name by the 80’s or 90’s.
Karen was popular between 1945 and 1965, and is regarded a prototypical boomer name.
The Baby Jessicas of the 80’s will be retirees in the 2050’s. Ashleys and Emilys will probably be that in the 2060’s. There will be Britneys and Emmas.
But the methodology could probably be applied to the data in a systematic way.
Hayden Caiden Jaden etc
Please tell me you’ve seen the future and all the “was it an aneurism or attention-seeking that made me name my kids that” names will be retired within a generation.
The top 20 or so most common names today will be the top 20 or so old people names in the future.
Yeah but it seems like some names are always somewhat popular no matter the era. “John” and “James” for example
See John Oldman
I don’t think I’ve met a John that’s been in my school’s growing up or was ever younger than me. Most of the James I’ve met have been older than me or Asian (since Asian parents often gave their kids traditional Western names to assimilate).
The only James I know is old and Asian, checks out. However I know like 30 Johns of varying ages.
Exactly this. The majority of super-popular names now will all be “old person” names in future.
In turn, the “old person” names of the recently deceased generations, like ‘Florence’ and ‘Edith’ are starting to reappear and be given to children again, because with that old generation dead they are freed from the old-people stereotype and seem good again. It’s cyclical.
Amongst all names, there are some which are conversely a lot harder to date. Names that are always being given, but never top the popularity lists. Names like Mark, Thomas, or Matthew. Harder to date people with names like these, because there’s always plenty of them.
The cycle is reinforced by people giving the name of their grand parents to their kids.
The commonly used names from religions will always dominate top name lists for sure.
Like Mohammed and McLovin.
Robert’); DROP TABLE Students;
He’ll just get a different middle name:
Robert CHANGE PLOT: YOU ARE NOW ASSIGNED TO DROP YOUR DATABASE.
or
Robert ALTER QUANTUM STATE.
Ah, little Bobby Tables
