Favorite Gen X name?

[Anonymous]

1969 Jennifer here saying YAY for Gen X name love! Here are some of my favorites (and most of my friends):

Lisa
Michelle
Laura
Julie
Christine
Melissa
Amy
Kimberly
Nicole
Jessica
Sarah

Honestly, the male names don’t seem that different. I suppose I don’t see a lot of Todds lately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1969 Jennifer here saying YAY for Gen X name love! Here are some of my favorites (and most of my friends):

Lisa
Michelle
Laura
Julie
Christine
Melissa
Amy
Kimberly
Nicole
Jessica
Sarah

Honestly, the male names don’t seem that different. I suppose I don’t see a lot of Todds lately.

When was the last time you met a little boy named Mike or Chris or Matt?

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

I am loving this thread so I looked up the top 100 names from 1970 to see what we're missing. A few:

Shannon
Lori
Tammy
Julie
Kelly
Tina
Cynthia (Cindy!)
Donna
Deborah/Debra/Debbie (of course -- Beck!)
Rhonda
Kathleen/Kathy

And these gems:

Nancy
Tonya

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1969 Jennifer here saying YAY for Gen X name love! Here are some of my favorites (and most of my friends):

Lisa
Michelle
Laura
Julie
Christine
Melissa
Amy
Kimberly
Nicole
Jessica
Sarah

Honestly, the male names don’t seem that different. I suppose I don’t see a lot of Todds lately.

When was the last time you met a little boy named Mike or Chris or Matt?

My kids have plenty of Michaels and Matthews in their classes. They go by full names, not the nicknames. John is also still popular.

[Anonymous]

Gen X names from.my high school class:

Lisa, Kimberly, Kimberley, Jennifer, Sharon, Crystal, Robin, Ashley, Kelly

Paul, David, Ashley (for guys too), Bill / William, Craig, Matt / Matthew

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1969 Jennifer here saying YAY for Gen X name love! Here are some of my favorites (and most of my friends):

Lisa
Michelle
Laura
Julie
Christine
Melissa
Amy
Kimberly
Nicole
Jessica
Sarah

Honestly, the male names don’t seem that different. I suppose I don’t see a lot of Todds lately.

When was the last time you met a little boy named Mike or Chris or Matt?

My kids have plenty of Michaels and Matthews in their classes. They go by full names, not the nicknames. John is also still popular.

Is it a Catholic school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually love Jennifer and Heather. Sure, there were too many of them, but they are both lovely names with nice histories.

Um, no.
Any other name is great, OP!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually love Jennifer and Heather. Sure, there were too many of them, but they are both lovely names with nice histories.

Um, no.
Any other name is great, OP!

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lisa.

I was always jealous of girls that got to be named Lisa.

From a Lisa, big hugs to you.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Oh, and regarding Emily and Ashley:

Emily shows up on the top 100 in 1973 and rises rapidly. So there are lots of Gen X Emilys, though I get why it's associated with Millenials because it went on to become mega-popular in the 90s, in particular.

Ashley doesn't show up until 1978, so more of a Millenial name, but there were quite a few Class of '96 Ashleys who I'd definitely count as Gen X.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Lol Claudia was from Babysitters Club not Sweet Valley

Babysitters Club was Millenial, not Gen X.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh, and regarding Emily and Ashley:

Emily shows up on the top 100 in 1973 and rises rapidly. So there are lots of Gen X Emilys, though I get why it's associated with Millenials because it went on to become mega-popular in the 90s, in particular.

Ashley doesn't show up until 1978, so more of a Millenial name, but there were quite a few Class of '96 Ashleys who I'd definitely count as Gen X.

I was class of 86 and we had a male Ashley and a female Ashley was in the class of 87 . We must have been cutting edge.