Favorite Gen X name?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Squarely GenX'er here; graduated HS in 1985: Names from my high school (am counting ones where I knew two or more people with the name):

Stacy
Tracy
Rhonda
Jill
Amy
Catherine/Cathy
Cynthia
Kimberly
Jennifer
Melissa
Elizabeth in all its variations: Lisa, Liz, Beth, Betsy
Susan
Deborah (Debbie)
Maria
Margaret
Lori/Laurie/Laura/Lauren

I think most demographers agree that high school class of '85 (born ~1963) are late boomers.

I was born in 1966 and graduated HS in 1984 so I don’t think your math is correct. 1963 is more like the class of 1981

Agreed. I am class of 85 and solidly Gen X. My husband is the class of 78 and very much a Boomer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Every Kimberly/Kim I’ve known has been a major slut. So anything but that...

The 50-year old Kimberly I know is a slut so I think you are into something.

Why is that? Same!

Yeah I even met a male Kim who was a slut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every Kimberly/Kim I’ve known has been a major slut. So anything but that...

The 50-year old Kimberly I know is a slut so I think you are into something.

Why is that? Same!

Yeah I even met a male Kim who was a slut.

Ha! The Kim on my street bangs guy’s behind her husband’s back. Sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Squarely GenX'er here; graduated HS in 1985: Names from my high school (am counting ones where I knew two or more people with the name):

Stacy
Tracy
Rhonda
Jill
Amy
Catherine/Cathy
Cynthia
Kimberly
Jennifer
Melissa
Elizabeth in all its variations: Lisa, Liz, Beth, Betsy
Susan
Deborah (Debbie)
Maria
Margaret
Lori/Laurie/Laura/Lauren

I think most demographers agree that high school class of '85 (born ~1963) are late boomers.

I was born in 1966 and graduated HS in 1984 so I don’t think your math is correct. 1963 is more like the class of 1981

Yes, people born in 1963 would be high school class of 1981 and college class of 1985.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Claudia
Blair
Tiffany
Stephanie
Cynthia (hate Cindy)
Maria
Patricia (hate most nns)
Veronica
Courtney
Yolanda
Melinda

Yolanda?

The only Yolanda I ever heard of was in Pulp Fiction. Definitely no one in my class was named Yolanda.

--Born in 1975 and graduated high school in Southern CA.

I knew a bunch of Yolandas, Latishas, Latoyas, etc but went to a majority AA high school.

Agree on KIMs being major sluts.

Have always hated my 70s name (Melody Renee). Ugh. Very broke-people-aspirational, like Crystal.

[Anonymous]

I named my daughter (born in 2011) Elizabeth, which is fairly common among girls her age and it's pretty common among women my age too (born in 1979). But what is different is what they go by- it seems like it's much more common for girls named Elizabeth these days to actually go by Elizabeth. Or if they use a nickname it's usually Ellie, Lizzie, or Libby. Liz and Beth seem to be the choice for women my age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Squarely GenX'er here; graduated HS in 1985: Names from my high school (am counting ones where I knew two or more people with the name):

Stacy
Tracy
Rhonda
Jill
Amy
Catherine/Cathy
Cynthia
Kimberly
Jennifer
Melissa
Elizabeth in all its variations: Lisa, Liz, Beth, Betsy
Susan
Deborah (Debbie)
Maria
Margaret
Lori/Laurie/Laura/Lauren

I think most demographers agree that high school class of '85 (born ~1963) are late boomers.

I was born in 1966 and graduated HS in 1984 so I don’t think your math is correct. 1963 is more like the class of 1981

Agreed. I am class of 85 and solidly Gen X. My husband is the class of 78 and very much a Boomer.

np I agree with the pps. I am also born in 66. I would argue that someone born in 63 isn't really a boomer. Totally different experience than someone born in 47 or 55.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I love Jennifer nn Jenny.

Well, speaking of Gen X, you have now legally obligated me to post this song

Isn't it funny how kids today don't have the girls names we grew up with? I don't know any young Jessicas, Jennifers, Stephanies, Heathers - the guys' names don't seem to have been abandoned, though. Do you think next generation, when they have kids, will pick up our Gen X names as retro, like our gen has with greatest generation names (Henry, Max, Alice, Ava, Opal, etc)?

I went to school with 27 Jennifers
16 Jenns, 10 Jennies, and then there was her

[youtube] https://youtu.be/1nN_5kkYR6k[/youtube]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love Jennifer nn Jenny.

Well, speaking of Gen X, you have now legally obligated me to post this song

Isn't it funny how kids today don't have the girls names we grew up with? I don't know any young Jessicas, Jennifers, Stephanies, Heathers - the guys' names don't seem to have been abandoned, though. Do you think next generation, when they have kids, will pick up our Gen X names as retro, like our gen has with greatest generation names (Henry, Max, Alice, Ava, Opal, etc)?

I went to school with 27 Jennifers
16 Jenns, 10 Jennies, and then there was her

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Claudia
Blair
Tiffany
Stephanie
Cynthia (hate Cindy)
Maria
Patricia (hate most nns)
Veronica
Courtney
Yolanda
Melinda

Yolanda?

The only Yolanda I ever heard of was in Pulp Fiction. Definitely no one in my class was named Yolanda.

--Born in 1975 and graduated high school in Southern CA.

I knew a bunch of Yolandas, Latishas, Latoyas, etc but went to a majority AA high school.

Agree on KIMs being major sluts.

Have always hated my 70s name (Melody Renee). Ugh. Very broke-people-aspirational, like Crystal.

Yolanda is a Spanish name. #89 In 1972.

[Anonymous]

Leslie

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Claudia
Blair
Tiffany
Stephanie
Cynthia (hate Cindy)
Maria
Patricia (hate most nns)
Veronica
Courtney
Yolanda
Melinda

Yolanda?

The only Yolanda I ever heard of was in Pulp Fiction. Definitely no one in my class was named Yolanda.

--Born in 1975 and graduated high school in Southern CA.

I knew a bunch of Yolandas, Latishas, Latoyas, etc but went to a majority AA high school.

Agree on KIMs being major sluts.

Have always hated my 70s name (Melody Renee). Ugh. Very broke-people-aspirational, like Crystal.

SO true about Kim!! One even had a NN about being a sex machine!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love Jennifer nn Jenny.

Well, speaking of Gen X, you have now legally obligated me to post this song

Isn't it funny how kids today don't have the girls names we grew up with? I don't know any young Jessicas, Jennifers, Stephanies, Heathers - the guys' names don't seem to have been abandoned, though. Do you think next generation, when they have kids, will pick up our Gen X names as retro, like our gen has with greatest generation names (Henry, Max, Alice, Ava, Opal, etc)?

I went to school with 27 Jennifers
16 Jenns, 10 Jennies, and then there was her

They are all hot

Jennifer Lopez, Jennifer Connelly, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lawerence, Jenny McCarthy, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jennifer Esposito, Jennifer Beals, Jennifer Grey, Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Flavin, Jennifer Coolidge,,,,and so on and on...

And Hollywood didn’t even make them change their first names.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Claudia...so sweet valley high!

Lol Claudia was from Babysitters Club not Sweet Valley

Babysitters Club was Millenial, not Gen X.

Incorrect, it was both. It came out in 1986, so plenty of Gen Xers read it in middle school, but it remained popular so obviously Millenials picked it up. My sister (a young Gen X) and I (born 1980, so on the cusp of both but only the Millenials will have me) both read it.

That said, the names are definitely Gen X or very early Millenial, which makes sense because if the girls were 13/14 in 1986, they would have been born in the late 70s.

Come on, you can do math better than that. They would have been born in 1972 or 73, not the late 70s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Claudia
Blair
Tiffany
Stephanie
Cynthia (hate Cindy)
Maria
Patricia (hate most nns)
Veronica
Courtney
Yolanda
Melinda

Yolanda?

The only Yolanda I ever heard of was in Pulp Fiction. Definitely no one in my class was named Yolanda.

--Born in 1975 and graduated high school in Southern CA.

I knew a bunch of Yolandas, Latishas, Latoyas, etc but went to a majority AA high school.

Agree on KIMs being major sluts.

Have always hated my 70s name (Melody Renee). Ugh. Very broke-people-aspirational, like Crystal.

SO true about Kim!! One even had a NN about being a sex machine!

Ha! Kim Kardashian and her sex tapes. Ex-husband banged a Kim...who was banging about 5 other married men at the same time.