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.

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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?

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone from here on should be named Pat. The end.

or Chris

Nope. Everyone will be Max and Sam

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.

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.

I read somewhere than the eternal naming trend is grandma names — that is, makes a generation like tend to be those of two generations back give or take. Obviously other factors play into it (I’m guessing no one in the 50s/60s was thinking deeply about gender neutral naming) but my relatives in that age range mostly have short, strong names (Pat, Bob, Chris, Sam, Dave, Kate) either as full names or preferred nicknames. So it’s makes sense they’d be having a resurgence.

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grader says she wants to name her hypothetical kid "Fred."

DD wants to name her son Panther. 11th grade.

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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...

My 6th grader says she wants to name her hypothetical kid "Fred."

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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 mean, it’s a nameberry blog, so I’d take it with a grain of salt.

The Z-ennials are different from the Z-Alphas. Along with people having kids later and later, I don't thing you are going to have a clear idea about naming trends until another 5-7 years for the generation as a whole.

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.

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.

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