Gen-Z naming trends

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Anonymous wrote:That explains all the batsh!t names I see on babycenter. Hard pass. I don't know what's worse, the invented hick names like Raelynn or the random word names like Cove, Rune, Fox, etc.

Babycenter is some real lowest common denominator stuff. It skews very young and uneducated.

Babycenter used to be primarily an online store (during the ".com boom" of the late 90's/early 2000s. My oldest was born in 2000 and I actually bought several items from there. The message boards were kind of a side thing.

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OK the oldest Gen Z is 25. Teen moms and kids who have babies super young do name them completely different than people who start at 30.

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Of course there will be a new naming trend. It’s expected and inevitable.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m 35 and just named my daughter something that could go either way. I did this for her career. I don’t want her resume or application judged based on her gender.

I think it’s better to work for a equitable work culture for women than to give your child an androgynous name. They’ll see she’s a woman once they meet her, anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m 35 and just named my daughter something that could go either way. I did this for her career. I don’t want her resume or application judged based on her gender.

I think it’s better to work for a equitable work culture for women than to give your child an androgynous name. They’ll see she’s a woman once they meet her, anyway.

Agree. I am a woman with an engineering degree and work in a very technical field. My daughters names are clearly feminine.

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Anonymous wrote:I think younger parents tend to use more trendy names and right now, all parents in Gen z are 25 or younger.

+1 I'm an elder millennial and the moms I know who had kids between 16-24 have extremely different names than the moms I know who had kids at 30+. It's not necessarily a generational thing, stage of life plays into it.

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I'm an older Gen X, and the moms I know who had kids young (say under 28) have very different names than my friends who had their kids post 32ish. This is true whether they are Gex X or Millenial in my experience.

Yeah, there is also data that confirms this.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an older milennial and I feel very distant from Gen X but I'm also a minority and a first gen-er so ... I like quirky names. I find traditional names to be boring.

What is a “first gen-er” when it comes to baby names? You were born from someone and someone gave you a name, so you are not the first person in your family to name a kid.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m 35 and just named my daughter something that could go either way. I did this for her career. I don’t want her resume or application judged based on her gender.

I think it’s better to work for a equitable work culture for women than to give your child an androgynous name. They’ll see she’s a woman once they meet her, anyway.

Agree. I am a woman with an engineering degree and work in a very technical field. My daughters names are clearly feminine.

+2. We gave our daughter a classic feminine name. I find out the gender tomorrow and if the baby is a second daughter, we'll be choosing another feminine name. It's a personal preference but I really don't like androgenous or masculine names or nicknames on girls. If that's someone's preferred style, then go ahead, but it seems really odd to do it just for future resumes. And there's definitely a difference between an actual gender neutral name or a name with an androgenous nickname (Sam, Alex, etc) and just straight up naming a daughter James, Elliot, or Thomas.

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Anonymous wrote:Most in generation z don’t have kids yet. They’re age 25 and under. Im a millennial born in mid 80s and most of the younger millennials (around age 30) I know aren’t even having kids yet. Out of the few I can think of who have kids, there’s a Miles (boy but I think that name is pretty gender neutral now), a Monte, and a Mo. they do differ from the millennials I know in my age range (mid-late 30s) who mostly gave our kids more traditional names.

This is true. I'm 32 and having my second child. Most people my age I know haven't had children yet or are about to have their first.


Miles is gender neutral???

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I love gender neutral names especially on boys (Adrian, Dana, Grayson, Kyle). My niece, 18, is named Kyle and has always loved her name.

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Anonymous wrote:I think younger parents tend to use more trendy names and right now, all parents in Gen z are 25 or younger.

+1 I'm an elder millennial and the moms I know who had kids between 16-24 have extremely different names than the moms I know who had kids at 30+. It's not necessarily a generational thing, stage of life plays into it.

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I'm an older Gen X, and the moms I know who had kids young (say under 28) have very different names than my friends who had their kids post 32ish. This is true whether they are Gex X or Millenial in my experience.

I'm towards the younger end of Gen X (born in 75.) My friends who had babies at age 25 or younger named their kids: Noah, Emily, Matthew, Emma... Friends that had their first baby at age 30 or older: Bishop, Hunter (girl), Brody...

I'm a young Gen X and it seems like the very youngest Gen X or even oldest Millennials at the time having babies in the early 2000s were responsible for the travesty of the name Neveah. Did you know it is Heaven spelled backwards?

Neveah spelled backwards is not Heaven. It's Haeven. Nevaeh is Heaven spelled backwards. It amuses me every time I see someone who thinks that.

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Nothing can be worse than the Braxton Jaxton Traxton Flaxton or Brayden Jayden Kayden Layden phenomena

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think younger parents tend to use more trendy names and right now, all parents in Gen z are 25 or younger.

+1 I'm an elder millennial and the moms I know who had kids between 16-24 have extremely different names than the moms I know who had kids at 30+. It's not necessarily a generational thing, stage of life plays into it.

+1
I'm an older Gen X, and the moms I know who had kids young (say under 28) have very different names than my friends who had their kids post 32ish. This is true whether they are Gex X or Millenial in my experience.

I'm towards the younger end of Gen X (born in 75.) My friends who had babies at age 25 or younger named their kids: Noah, Emily, Matthew, Emma... Friends that had their first baby at age 30 or older: Bishop, Hunter (girl), Brody...

I'm a young Gen X and it seems like the very youngest Gen X or even oldest Millennials at the time having babies in the early 2000s were responsible for the travesty of the name Neveah. Did you know it is Heaven spelled backwards?

Neveah spelled backwards is not Heaven. It's Haeven. Nevaeh is Heaven spelled backwards. It amuses me every time I see someone who thinks that.

It's just such a stupid name the poor souls with it always remind you that it's heaven spelled backwards as if it makes it more likable and less cringeworthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing can be worse than the Braxton Jaxton Traxton Flaxton or Brayden Jayden Kayden Layden phenomena

Jaxson

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think younger parents tend to use more trendy names and right now, all parents in Gen z are 25 or younger.

+1 I'm an elder millennial and the moms I know who had kids between 16-24 have extremely different names than the moms I know who had kids at 30+. It's not necessarily a generational thing, stage of life plays into it.

+1
I'm an older Gen X, and the moms I know who had kids young (say under 28) have very different names than my friends who had their kids post 32ish. This is true whether they are Gex X or Millenial in my experience.

I am an older millennial, had kids after 30, and I am so happy i did not use the names I liked when I was under 25 haha