Favorite Gen X name?

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Boy classmates, 1989: Curt/Kurt, Dave, Jimmy, Dan, Ronny, Kevin, Tom, Chuck, Pat, Mark, Matt

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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.

I’m a dork and just looked up the percentage. 0.211% in 1972. Last year’s equivalents are Caroline, Eliana, Anna, Maya and Valentina(#61 to #65).

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Anonymous wrote:Rachel
Jill
Kerri (prefer it to Carey)
Amy
Danielle
Katie

I don't like:

Stephanie
Jennifer
Courtney

Those are both weird spellings. The traditional way is Carrie.

Two different names- or is that a regional pronunciation thing? Kerri and Carrie, to me, are pronounced completely differently

That must be regional. I grew up in the PNW and we pronounced those two names the same way.

Completely different names. Pronounced different. Carrie is usually short for Carlott, Caroline, etc. Kerri (Kerry) is an Irish name.

How do you say it? I have always said Carrie same as Kerri/Keri. I have heard Cari pronounced like Car-ee. But that's it. Every Carrie I've known has also said their name like Kerry/Kerri.

NP it is that you pronounce Ker and Car the same and they both probably sound like Cair/Care with an open A sound. The way I and the other PPs are describing has Kerry with a short E and hard R sound and Carrie with an open A but that lacks the slightly more nasal sound for the A where it would sound more like Air. Google "Merry, Marry, Mary" pronunciations. You should be able to listen to how people who pronounce these differently say them. Erin and Aaron as well.

Don't even start. Mary/Marry/Merry all the same. Same for Erin/Aaron. Where do people live that these are totally different? I've lived in the South/Midwest/West so I presume this is a regional North/North East thing?

I guess learning vowel sounds wasn't a big thing where you've lived. Marry and Merry are pronounced differently. Short a and short e.

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Anonymous wrote:Christina

Yes! Love it, wish it would come back. So elegant.

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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.

Yolanda was an AA name at my HS. Class of 94.

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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

You are correct and I am an idiot lol.

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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.

Yolanda was an AA name at my HS. Class of 94.

They’re allowed to use a Spanish name, but it’s Spanish. It’s different than Latisha(AA version of Letitia) or Latoya(name they invented from La Toya).

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Loved:
Amanda
Jennifer
Amy
Rachel
Rebecca
Abigail
Danielle
Celeste
Laura
Lauren
Renee

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Anonymous wrote:Loved:
Amanda
Jennifer
Amy
Rachel
Rebecca
Abigail
Danielle
Celeste
Laura
Lauren
Renee

And:
Melanie
Chrissy
Annie

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I think Dawn is pretty. Actually considered it for my daughter who is turning 15 soon. It is her middle name.

Considered Heather for daughter 2, but first daughter has an H name.

Dana was our backup for a good part of my pregnancy with daughter 2, but we went with Erica last minute.

I was pregnant with a tax day baby at one point, and April was a top choice. I also knew a Spring in high school-thought that was pretty.
I like the name Melody. And Crystal. And Felicia.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Dawn is pretty. Actually considered it for my daughter who is turning 15 soon. It is her middle name.

Considered Heather for daughter 2, but first daughter has an H name.

Dana was our backup for a good part of my pregnancy with daughter 2, but we went with Erica last minute.

I was pregnant with a tax day baby at one point, and April was a top choice. I also knew a Spring in high school-thought that was pretty.
I like the name Melody. And Crystal. And Felicia.

Isn't crystal the name dcum says is a stripper name???

[Anonymous]

Oh yes, Dana and Alyssa and Allison.

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I'm Hispanic and went to school in the inner city. We had Yolandas that were African-American and Yolandas that were Hispanic.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Dawn is pretty. Actually considered it for my daughter who is turning 15 soon. It is her middle name.

Considered Heather for daughter 2, but first daughter has an H name.

Dana was our backup for a good part of my pregnancy with daughter 2, but we went with Erica last minute.

I was pregnant with a tax day baby at one point, and April was a top choice. I also knew a Spring in high school-thought that was pretty.
I like the name Melody. And Crystal. And Felicia.

Heather is the ultimate Gen X name.

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Anonymous wrote:Melissa, Samantha, Jessica (or is that more early millennial?)

I think Samantha, Jessica, and Amanda which has been mentioned a lot are more early millennial names.

Just because a name peaked when millennials were born doesn’t mean it wasn’t fairly common among GenX. We had our share of Amandas.

DP. I’m a GenX Amanda. As a child, I *hated* my name because none of the other kids had ever heard of it and thought it was weird. It wasn’t until I was in high school that another Amanda showed up. I think my parents were ahead of their time, even though the name is quite old.