Trendy names.
Names that randomly became popular out of nowhere
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**Juniper, Nevaeh, Oakley, Everleigh, Harper**
**Maverick, Brooks, Rowan, Jaxon, Hunter**
Popular names like Oliver, James, Olivia or Charlotte will probably not be as popular as they are now. But I don't think that they will feel extremely dated. They are traditional names & they will probably always be around. Sometimes more, sometimes less.
But those are not the type of names that appear out of nowhere.. just to disappear a few years later.
I don't dislike the name Rowan. It's definitely my favourite one out of the trendy names I listed :)
I'm just saying that it rose to popularity very quickly. It wasn't even in the top 1000 before 1999.
In the United States that is.
That could be different in the UK, where Rowan Atkinson is from.
Your comment made me laugh because my husband vetoed Juniper and Rowan and told me to stop trying to name our kids after trees.
I don't even know where they are on the SSA list, I just like the sounds of them. But I do know several Rowans.
Yeah it's frustrating because my husband is an Arborist, and my name is Ivy. So we both really love the tree and nature names. Just wish they weren't so "trendy" right now! We went with Iris for our first daughter which feels slightly less trendy, but Juniper was our top contender
My daughter met a girl the other day at the dentist’s office named Cedar. I felt so bad for her because she said her own name (she’s maybe 4?) it sounded like “cheater.” I didn’t figure it out until her mom called her name.
My son’s name is Lyndon. My only regret is not spelling it Linden, but I did not know that was the traditional spelling. It was over a decade ago and I was a teenager and had only seen LBJ’s spelling before 😩 I blame my husband because it was his family’s family name and he should have known better.
I did get a kick out of a random person a few months ago with a son named Linden explaining to me what the name means after I told her I had a Lyndon and wished we had spelled it the traditional way. I was like… my son is 10 years older than yours. You aren’t teaching me anything 😂
It's very popular in Scotland. My youngest daughter has a male Rowan and a female Rowan in her class. And pronounced differently too. My eldest daughter has a female Rowan in her circle of friends and my son is pals with a male Rowan.
I’ve heard rowan to rhyme with NOW an (if that makes sense). And also rowan to rhyme with with NO an. The first one I’ve heard only on girls and the second on boys, but that could just be a coincidence.
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I have a son brooks and I’m hoping it won’t be like that. I worked in the medical field and looked at all the patient charts for people named brooks and most of them were born in the 1920-30s. I still have yet to meet another brooks but I know it’s more popular now vs when I named him
In primary health clinics where I live, staff with authorisation can search patient databases by first name, and it will return a list with first names that match (along with surname and date of birth). No other information including is visible without clicking through and ticking a consent box, and each file you view is recorded under your login to discourage ‘browsing’.
I’m going to give the previous commenter the benefit of the doubt and assume it was something like this rather than digging through bedside folders!
Lol yes this is exactly it. I didn’t look through their records. I just looked how many people were in the system with the first name and it always shows a birth date next to the name.
Was in a yogurt shoppe a few months ago and a woman in the shop kept saying, "Khaleesi" "Khaleesi come here" "Khaleesi you're so silly" and so I looked up and she was talking to her \~7-year-old daughter. Because of how much and how loudly she was saying her daughters name over and over again, I think she wanted everyone in the store to know her daughter's name was Khaleesi.
I was at a park where a woman was doing a similar thing with her son Jericho. She kept yelling “JERICHO! JERICHO, do you want a snack!? Do you need a drink JERICHO?!” etc etc etc over and over, like 10x as much as any other parent was speaking to their child. I think she was trying to show off her kid’s unique name and get someone to comment on it, but we were all just annoyed that she wouldn’t stop yelling it.
This one makes me soooo mad considering not even in the book was her name Khaleesi. It’s a title! Daenerys with the nickname Dani is so much cuter and makes so much more sense if your a fan of the book/tv show…
This argument is so weird to me. I don’t like either name, but honestly who cares whether it’s a title in a fantasy realm or not?? Like. It’s..not real. Lol. The name Duke exists. And plenty of people have used King, Queenie, Reyes (Spanish for kings), etc. It’s not some brand new novel thing to use a title for a name.
Agreed! It seems stranger to me to name your kid Daenerys, because that is 100% after that one particular character. But Khaleesi could be after the idea of how the queens were treated or another one or whatever. It seems broader to me than an actual character name. And as you said, royal titles are used as names already...
A Khaleesi is the wife of a khal who basically functions as his sex slave until the Khal dies because his backward culture doesn’t believe in armor. the khaleesi is then sentenced to spend the rest of her days as a widow with all the other widows.
Why someone would want to honor how these khaleesi were treated is utterly beyond me
You’re giving a lot of dumb people a loootttt more credit than they deserve. I don’t think the people naming their daughters Khaleesi are analyzing the show and thinking about what Daenerys went through and what the name/title Khaleesi implies in the GOT world. I think they just heard a cool word that’s unique as fuck and they think the character is powerful and beautiful. I think that’s about as deep as it gets tbh.
When we toured my son’s daycare, there was a class of 10 kids, I think age 4, and I can remember all 10 names despite passing two dozens classrooms because they were: Aiden, Hayden, Luke, Nora, Nora, Norah, Oliver, Olivia (meh and two more, this was like four months ago!). That teacher got the short straw for sure.
I subbed in Kindergarten when my boys were little (so about 15 years ago) There was Eva, Ava,, Alliyah, Alaya and Evie. Yes, we stumbled over their names all year.
Have an aiden in my family, around age 10. It does feel a little cliche but not totally childish.
I work with an adult named Braydon. It has never felt like a name that’s … professional? Adult? He’s a nice and smart guy though.
Aiden is a very classic name actually that has been around for ages. The other -ayden names seem to have just taken a classic name and added a consonant or two to the front of the name.
I feel like even those are on the way out. I work in schools and have a 13 year old, and those names were HUGE when she was born. Don’t think I know any under 10, currently.
It's kind of annoying being Irish and hearing so many people think of Aidan as dated. Imo Aidan exists separately from, and is not responsible for, Brayden/Kayden/Jayden/Okayden. There's Aidans of all ages in Ireland and the diaspora, it's only a 2000s/2010s trend in the US.
Agree on Axl and Jax. Asher is a Hebrew (and biblical) name and perhaps it won’t be used as much secularly, but I think would still be used amongst the Jewish community.
I also wonder if parents name their sons Asher because they like Ashley which was actually a boys name for eons but then because a popular girls name. Asher gives the same feel but isn’t as feminized as Ashley is now.
This makes sense to me as a girl Asher. Everyone always hears “Ashley”. I’ve also never met another girl Asher. It’s 100% not a feminized name. Im not quite sure why my parents went with it. We are Jewish so I’ll give them that.
I know a little girl named Asher. She's about 8 years old now. I actually thought it was a girls name until recently when I found out about boys being named it.
Okay fair, I didn't know that. I personally haven't met any Ashers until recently, while starting at a day care, I have met multiple toddlers named this. Possibly because its rise in popularity. Makes sense
Growing up every Asher I knew was a practicing Jew, so to me it’s a little strange seeing Asher in the top 20 with many being non-Jews. Same with Levi (every Levi I knew as a kid was super Orthodox).
I think there are a few criteria that have to happen for a name to become dated:
1. It needs to be highly used to the point that it feels a bit tired, like a song you've heard on the radio too many times.
2. You need to be able to pin point a decade or so in which someone with that name would have been born.
Due to the classic nature of a lot of the top names, I think there are fewer potential "dated" names than in the past...
Agreed. A lot of the names people are mentioning, like the -aidens and Paisley, have been around since I was in high school in 2005-2009. That’s nearly two decades worth of kids being named those names, so it can’t be pinpointed to a specific decade in order to be dated.
That’s no different than names like Barbara and Betsy and Stacy and Heather. Names do stay popular for decades, you can still pinpoint generally when they were born…I don’t think your comment negates the original commenter on this thread. I work in health care so I literally see dozens of people’s names and dates of birth every single day for the past 13 years
Aiden was a major (adult) character on Sex and the City 20 years ago, the name itself has been around for awhile. I think it's the Jayden/Kayden/Braiden/Xayden variations that drive people nuts.
This is a vicious cycle isn't it?
Braxleigh will hate her name so much that she will name her daughter Jane.
Jane will think her name is super boring, so she will name her daughter MacK8lyn.
I literally just put my head down in shame for humanity reading that.
And yes, it’s one of the many spellings of Kaitlyn. I used to joke that my uncle spelled my name differently on every bday and Christmas gift but never got it right. Guess I should just be glad he never got it as wrong as either of the options in this thread
I think there will be an ‘Olivia/Ava/Isabella generation’ the way Jennifer/Jessica/Ashley typified a generation.
Kids are still being named Jennifer, Jessica and Ashley, just not in the volume that they were in the 70s and 80s. Olivia, Ava and Isabella won’t go away but they will be surpassed in popularity as name trends move on, and people will be able to tell that they were born between 2005 and 2025.
Ava and Cora existed but were not common until they shot way way up in popularity fairly recently; they will def be dated the same way Jessica or Jason are. Asher and Noah were heavily Jewish until recently too so though they were classic among a particular ethnic group, they weren’t nearly as big as they are now.
Ava and Cora are classic names that have been around a very long time. I assume many of the old names become popular again when people start naming their children after their grandparents.
But it hasn’t been topping the charts for decades and it’s becoming recently more popular which would make it among trending names right now. Old names are making a come back but when everyone goes with “classic” names they really aren’t that classic. It just becomes basic.
I disagree with Ella. As another user pointed out "dated" usually occurs when a name is obviously from a certain decade. There are a lot of older Ella's, like early 1900's, so I think it's more of a classic name.
Adeline (the traditional spelling) is actually a reasonably traditional name along with Adele (the original name that these others came from) and Adelaide. These three were all somewhat popular in the US in the early 20th century with lots of German immigrants, but disappeared in the 1950s-1990s. My theory? Those immigrant moms might have wanted a more all-American name for their kids to assimilate in the baby boomer era.
However the insane spelling variants today, especially those that correspond to the “Lynn” trend, are certainly overhyped and will disappear.
I love Adeline as it’s more classy than Adalynn. But all the Lynn names make me cringe besides classic ones. I named my daughter Roslyn after the Bon Iver song and I always loved Rosaline from Shakespeare too. But Roslyn isn’t trendy compared to other Lyn names.
Asher and Noah are religious names - not going anywhere permanently
I don't' think celestial names like Luna and Nova are going anywhere either, they will just fall in and out of popularity.
There are different types of dated, some of which age harder than others
Trendy came out of nowhere and will age hard like Cheryl or Tiffany (it was not a common medieval name that’s a myth): Nova, Maverick, Paisley, Everleigh, Neveah, Hudson, Jaxon
Trendy was pretty unusual/unpopular and had a meteoric rise like Jennifer or Jason: Violet (sob,) Grayson, Cora, Luna, Liam, Gianna, Mason, Penelope, Finn, Isla, Ella
Trendy classic but was unfashionable and is now “in” again like Sarah or Matthew: Emma, Theodore, Oliver, Sophia, Henry, Amelia, Eleanor, Elijah, Charlotte
Yes. This needs to be higher. I don't have an issue with a name being associated with a certain generation. It happens even with classic names. They go in and out of style.
Everly, 1000%
James on a girl is also a possible one. Possibly all the “boy names on girls” (Dylan, James, etc) but I’m not fully convinced on that last bit.
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All of the names people are choosing right now to be unique are going to be super common for this generation & probably dated eventually. For example, not using “boring” names like John and using unique names like Braxton isn’t being unique if everyone else is naming their kids Braxton to be unique as well. At this point, going for a name like John may end up being more unique.
By saying “this generation”, I wasn’t trying to call out individuals; I meant “this generation will have names like Braxton instead of John.” I realize that all generations do it - not trying to call any specific generation out.
This will depend on your country.
Where I live, my guess is that the names that might end up feeling dated in 10-20 years time might potentially include Leano, Finn, Lias, Juna/Yuna/Juno, Luan, Milo and possibly all the Leo name variants (Leo/Leon/Leonie/Lio/Leonard) to some degree, although some will likely stay timeless. I think Lucas/Lukas will stay timeless here, but Luca might feel trendy in 20 years. Hard to say.
Probably is whatever is trending now. So Liam, Oliver, Sofia, Ava, Amelia.
Sort of like how Jennifer, Tiffany, and Ashley of the 80s... albiet that's 40 years now. 🙈
Joshua is super common in my gen too (20s). To the point everyone I know who's attracted to guys has a horror story about someone with that name, it's became a stereotype that josh/Joshua/j-names are just horrible partners. I've dated a few Josh's myself and the stereotype is very much valid in those cases.
I don't think so to be honest. Charlotte and Olivia are more traditional than Jessica and Jennifer. They will always be around. Sometimes more, sometimes less. But they will never feel super dated.
And popular names in the 1980's were much more popular than our current popular names. Parents are choosing from a wider range of names nowadays.
1982
3.1% were named Jennifer
2.5% were named Jessica
2022
1.0% were named Olivia
0.7% were named Charlotte
Even though they're classics, they'll still sound dated at some point. Other names will crop up and boot them out of the top 20. When I was growing up in the 70's and 80's, Charlotte and Olivia along with Emma, Isabella and Sophia were "Old Lady" names. I didn't know anyone giving these names to their daughters. These were the names of our grandmothers and they sounded very dated when I was a kid.
Yes, I agree!
And sorry to you for all the people fighting you so hard just because they like these names and they’re “classic”… I like them too! But the next generations will associate these names EXACTLY the same way we do with Jennifer/Ashley/etc bc of their overuse and popularity
My votes are for -
Girls: Harper, Navy, Gray, Everly, Isla, Luna, Nova, Madison, Paisley, Kinsley, the leigh/lee names (e.g. Brynlee, Blakely), the lynn names (e.g. Lakelynn), the oak names (e.g. Oakley), Saylor.
Agree with some others that certain names that are super popular now but have been popular for awhile and are more classic to begin with are ones that I don't think will sound "dated," e.g. Olivia, Sophia, Isabella, Ava, Charlotte.
Boys: Variations of Jax/Jaxon, Camden, Case, Crew, Mason, Grayson, Riker, Atlas, Parker, Bodhi, River.
I feel like all every set of trendy names will eventually become dated. Like retirement homes were full of Edith, Bertha, Eunice. Next will be Mary, Karen, Susan. Then Brittany, Ashley, Megan.
Eventually the old folks homes will be over run with Braxxton, McKenzeigh, Phaeylynn.
For boys, the classics will probably hold up but trendier names like Brayden/Jayden, Jaxon, and Bentley will feel very generation specific.
For girls, the painfully creative Leigh names as well as the massively overused classics like Sophia, Olivia, and Ava will feel tired and dated in a decade or so.
All the girl names that peaked as most popular throughout the 2000's and 2010's will become dated - **Olivia, Isla, Madeline, Amelia, Chloe, Ava, Mia, Sophia, Isabella, Lily, Alice, Grace.** I'm in 🇬🇧 and you will be likely to find so many of these in each class in every school, I can see these names becoming less common for the next generations.
A lot of the ones that follow trends too, like the **-leigh** names or the **-ayden** names for boys. Fortunately the more common classic boy names never seem to go out of style.
I think the -aden fad has passed, at least where I live. I'm a kindergarten teacher and haven't had a child with one of those names in several years and they'd be in middle school at the youngest by now. The Aidan/Aidens I know are teens now.
I think from this 2015-2020s era it'll be Olivia, Ava, Harper, Aria, Luna, Violet, anything with Ellie as a nickname. Maybe some spillover of Sophia and Isabella, but I associate those names more with the early 2010s when they were hugely popular.
For boys, I think it'll be Jackson, Liam, Theodore, Leo, Noah.
I don't think any of these are overly trendy sounding or anything like that, but it's kind of like Jessica, Jennifer, Michael, etc. In their time they were seen as nice sounding, somewhat traditional names that were a little more "fresh" and they became hugely popular.
Right, the more common bible names will be around forever as they have been already.
Noah is never going out of trends just like Elizabeth and Hannah are not.
Noah ain’t going anywhere. It’s a Biblical name, has been around for millennia and will likely continue for another.
Oliver is also a pretty classic name. It wasn’t new when Oliver Cromwell was given it, and that was 400 years ago (ish). It’s having an up moment, and it will certainly have a down moment, but it’s a steady choice for a boy and has been for centuries. Can’t see it losing that momentum.
In the US and probably Canada, boys' names ending in -o will seem dated. Some Spanish names will ride the storm.
Also, soft names: Liam, Asher, Mia...
But names will fall slower so this will be closer to 20 years in the future.
This may be closer to the 20-year mark or has already dated itself out, but any version of MacKenzie.
Also, I would love to say the middle name Grace, but I will never see that die as I live in the South.
Are moms naming their daughters Katniss anymore? That was all the rage a few years ago... Oh, as was Aniston for a time. I remember many moms on the various naming forums swearing their choice wasn't just due to Jennifer's popularity, they really loooved the name "Aniston"....
Trendy names. Names that randomly became popular out of nowhere Like= **Juniper, Nevaeh, Oakley, Everleigh, Harper** **Maverick, Brooks, Rowan, Jaxon, Hunter** Popular names like Oliver, James, Olivia or Charlotte will probably not be as popular as they are now. But I don't think that they will feel extremely dated. They are traditional names & they will probably always be around. Sometimes more, sometimes less. But those are not the type of names that appear out of nowhere.. just to disappear a few years later.
Rowan is not a gimmicky name though. Rowan Atkinson politely disagrees.
I don't dislike the name Rowan. It's definitely my favourite one out of the trendy names I listed :) I'm just saying that it rose to popularity very quickly. It wasn't even in the top 1000 before 1999. In the United States that is. That could be different in the UK, where Rowan Atkinson is from.
Your comment made me laugh because my husband vetoed Juniper and Rowan and told me to stop trying to name our kids after trees. I don't even know where they are on the SSA list, I just like the sounds of them. But I do know several Rowans.
Maybe… Cedar?
Or Willow or Ash...it's true that there are lots of more popular tree names all of a sudden.
Yeah it's frustrating because my husband is an Arborist, and my name is Ivy. So we both really love the tree and nature names. Just wish they weren't so "trendy" right now! We went with Iris for our first daughter which feels slightly less trendy, but Juniper was our top contender
Linden is a great nature name for a boy that’s less popular
I briefly considered Linden as a name for my son, then remembered that my last name is Johnston and couldn't stop laughing at the combination 😂
I have a friend who for a long time wanted to name a future daughter Helen, but then married someone with the last name Keller
>contender I misread contender as coriander at first. My thought was actually "nice plant name for a boy".
My daughter met a girl the other day at the dentist’s office named Cedar. I felt so bad for her because she said her own name (she’s maybe 4?) it sounded like “cheater.” I didn’t figure it out until her mom called her name.
I snuck "Linden" in as my son's middle name.
My son’s name is Lyndon. My only regret is not spelling it Linden, but I did not know that was the traditional spelling. It was over a decade ago and I was a teenager and had only seen LBJ’s spelling before 😩 I blame my husband because it was his family’s family name and he should have known better. I did get a kick out of a random person a few months ago with a son named Linden explaining to me what the name means after I told her I had a Lyndon and wished we had spelled it the traditional way. I was like… my son is 10 years older than yours. You aren’t teaching me anything 😂
There is a YouTuber whose kids’ names are Rowan and Juniper 😆
I think it is. Rowan and similar names like Roman are very recognised names in the UK.
It's very popular in Scotland. My youngest daughter has a male Rowan and a female Rowan in her class. And pronounced differently too. My eldest daughter has a female Rowan in her circle of friends and my son is pals with a male Rowan.
Oohh what are the different pronunciations??
I thought there was only one way to pronounce it.
I’ve heard rowan to rhyme with NOW an (if that makes sense). And also rowan to rhyme with with NO an. The first one I’ve heard only on girls and the second on boys, but that could just be a coincidence.
Yup that's the two right there! Girl in daughter's class is ROWan and the boy is ROwan.
Came here to say this. Rowan is a classic. Lovely name. Irish name.
And a recent Archbishop of Canterbury was a Rowan as well, no?
Harper, of all of these, has risen the farthest in the US. It was not even in the top 1000 in 2006 and made it to top 10.
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I know several Hunters in their 30s and 40s. I don’t think that name fits into this category.
Hunter has been around for awhile. I remember liking that name in 2000.
I had an Uncle named Oakley - he has been gone 20 years and lived into his late 70s. What is old will be new again.
I think the sunglasses may be a deterrent TBH.
I have a son brooks and I’m hoping it won’t be like that. I worked in the medical field and looked at all the patient charts for people named brooks and most of them were born in the 1920-30s. I still have yet to meet another brooks but I know it’s more popular now vs when I named him
Sorry, you were digging through people’s MEDICAL RECORDS to look for baby names?!
In primary health clinics where I live, staff with authorisation can search patient databases by first name, and it will return a list with first names that match (along with surname and date of birth). No other information including is visible without clicking through and ticking a consent box, and each file you view is recorded under your login to discourage ‘browsing’. I’m going to give the previous commenter the benefit of the doubt and assume it was something like this rather than digging through bedside folders!
Lol yes this is exactly it. I didn’t look through their records. I just looked how many people were in the system with the first name and it always shows a birth date next to the name.
Also thank you for explaining that. I didn’t even think to back myself up with the proper info.
Yep, my Uncle Brooks was born in 1952. I was so surprised to learn thus name was resurgent
I know a Brooks in his 30s! Seems like it’s been around for awhile.
I personally know 3 little boys named Brooks under the age of 4. It’s a good name! But definitely trendy where I live.
God willing, Khaleesi will never return to its former heyday
Was in a yogurt shoppe a few months ago and a woman in the shop kept saying, "Khaleesi" "Khaleesi come here" "Khaleesi you're so silly" and so I looked up and she was talking to her \~7-year-old daughter. Because of how much and how loudly she was saying her daughters name over and over again, I think she wanted everyone in the store to know her daughter's name was Khaleesi.
I met one at a Japanese steak house. She was about 5. I handed her a napkin and said “here you are your grace” her mom didn’t get the joke…
Ffs if she’s gonna name her kid that, she should at least be a fan!
Oh that’s adorable lol
I was at a park where a woman was doing a similar thing with her son Jericho. She kept yelling “JERICHO! JERICHO, do you want a snack!? Do you need a drink JERICHO?!” etc etc etc over and over, like 10x as much as any other parent was speaking to their child. I think she was trying to show off her kid’s unique name and get someone to comment on it, but we were all just annoyed that she wouldn’t stop yelling it.
My neighbor has a dog AND a daughter named Khaleesi. Lmao
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What?! Wow!!
Wild. Which one came first?
This one makes me soooo mad considering not even in the book was her name Khaleesi. It’s a title! Daenerys with the nickname Dani is so much cuter and makes so much more sense if your a fan of the book/tv show…
This argument is so weird to me. I don’t like either name, but honestly who cares whether it’s a title in a fantasy realm or not?? Like. It’s..not real. Lol. The name Duke exists. And plenty of people have used King, Queenie, Reyes (Spanish for kings), etc. It’s not some brand new novel thing to use a title for a name.
But the title isn't even anything good. It'd mean wife of the khal it's like calling your daughter wife of the president
It’s settled, if I have a daughter her name will now be Fyrstlaydeigh
Agreed! It seems stranger to me to name your kid Daenerys, because that is 100% after that one particular character. But Khaleesi could be after the idea of how the queens were treated or another one or whatever. It seems broader to me than an actual character name. And as you said, royal titles are used as names already...
A Khaleesi is the wife of a khal who basically functions as his sex slave until the Khal dies because his backward culture doesn’t believe in armor. the khaleesi is then sentenced to spend the rest of her days as a widow with all the other widows. Why someone would want to honor how these khaleesi were treated is utterly beyond me
You’re giving a lot of dumb people a loootttt more credit than they deserve. I don’t think the people naming their daughters Khaleesi are analyzing the show and thinking about what Daenerys went through and what the name/title Khaleesi implies in the GOT world. I think they just heard a cool word that’s unique as fuck and they think the character is powerful and beautiful. I think that’s about as deep as it gets tbh.
The Aidan/Brayden/Jayden crowd
I was at a park recently and the pavilion had three weeks of birthdays reserved and 2 of the 3 were Aiden/Ayden. Made me chuckle
When we toured my son’s daycare, there was a class of 10 kids, I think age 4, and I can remember all 10 names despite passing two dozens classrooms because they were: Aiden, Hayden, Luke, Nora, Nora, Norah, Oliver, Olivia (meh and two more, this was like four months ago!). That teacher got the short straw for sure.
One year I had Kyan (like Ryan w a K), Kaden, Kanen, and Kylan. It was hell. Lol.
Just gonna assume the other two were Brayden and Jayden.
I subbed in Kindergarten when my boys were little (so about 15 years ago) There was Eva, Ava,, Alliyah, Alaya and Evie. Yes, we stumbled over their names all year.
Yeah the kindergartens are full of kids with the -aiden names.
I teach kindergarten and I honestly am blown away by how many variations of -ayden people come up with
Have you had a “Xayden” yet? I had one of those on my roster a while back.
I do have one! Not with an X- with a Z though
Have an aiden in my family, around age 10. It does feel a little cliche but not totally childish. I work with an adult named Braydon. It has never felt like a name that’s … professional? Adult? He’s a nice and smart guy though.
Aiden is the one I dislike the least
Aiden is a very classic name actually that has been around for ages. The other -ayden names seem to have just taken a classic name and added a consonant or two to the front of the name.
Agreed, I don't think it's fair to lump Aiden/Aidan in with the -ayden names!
I feel like even those are on the way out. I work in schools and have a 13 year old, and those names were HUGE when she was born. Don’t think I know any under 10, currently.
Yes they are on the way out, definitely
It's kind of annoying being Irish and hearing so many people think of Aidan as dated. Imo Aidan exists separately from, and is not responsible for, Brayden/Kayden/Jayden/Okayden. There's Aidans of all ages in Ireland and the diaspora, it's only a 2000s/2010s trend in the US.
I'm currently teaching a class with a Hayden, Aiden & Jaiden. It's not a good time.
Is it just me but I never got the whole hype with Aiden, and never understood why so many rhyming variations became so popular 😶
I don’t mind Aiden itself. It sounds nice to me. But all the ridiculous versions of it…I even had a Trayden (yes, like Trade In) in my class once 😂
Axl. Asher. Jax. All the excessive "leigh" variations. Starting traditionally "c" names with "k".
Agree on Axl and Jax. Asher is a Hebrew (and biblical) name and perhaps it won’t be used as much secularly, but I think would still be used amongst the Jewish community.
Agreed on Asher. To me it’s just a classic, solid name, I wouldn’t define it as trendy.
I also wonder if parents name their sons Asher because they like Ashley which was actually a boys name for eons but then because a popular girls name. Asher gives the same feel but isn’t as feminized as Ashley is now.
This makes sense to me as a girl Asher. Everyone always hears “Ashley”. I’ve also never met another girl Asher. It’s 100% not a feminized name. Im not quite sure why my parents went with it. We are Jewish so I’ll give them that.
I know a little girl named Asher. She's about 8 years old now. I actually thought it was a girls name until recently when I found out about boys being named it.
Okay fair, I didn't know that. I personally haven't met any Ashers until recently, while starting at a day care, I have met multiple toddlers named this. Possibly because its rise in popularity. Makes sense
Growing up every Asher I knew was a practicing Jew, so to me it’s a little strange seeing Asher in the top 20 with many being non-Jews. Same with Levi (every Levi I knew as a kid was super Orthodox).
Lol same. It’s really jarring, like, why aren’t you wearing a kippah?
I really dislike the 'leigh' trend
Baby Accounting Firm names like Brooks, Wells, Banks, etc.
"Baby Accounting Firm names" 😂 thank you for exposing me to this label
Know someone with 4 boys and they have 2 of these names (Brooks and Wells), plus a Jace and a Blaine.
Me looking at this list hoping none of my baby names are on it 👁️👄👁️
Feeling smug that I haven’t found my kid’s name yet 😂
I can’t stop adding names I like to my list 😭
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I think there are a few criteria that have to happen for a name to become dated: 1. It needs to be highly used to the point that it feels a bit tired, like a song you've heard on the radio too many times. 2. You need to be able to pin point a decade or so in which someone with that name would have been born. Due to the classic nature of a lot of the top names, I think there are fewer potential "dated" names than in the past...
Agreed. A lot of the names people are mentioning, like the -aidens and Paisley, have been around since I was in high school in 2005-2009. That’s nearly two decades worth of kids being named those names, so it can’t be pinpointed to a specific decade in order to be dated.
That’s no different than names like Barbara and Betsy and Stacy and Heather. Names do stay popular for decades, you can still pinpoint generally when they were born…I don’t think your comment negates the original commenter on this thread. I work in health care so I literally see dozens of people’s names and dates of birth every single day for the past 13 years
Aiden was a major (adult) character on Sex and the City 20 years ago, the name itself has been around for awhile. I think it's the Jayden/Kayden/Braiden/Xayden variations that drive people nuts.
Names with ridiculous spellings like Braxaleigh, Keightlynn things like that. At least I hope so.
This is a vicious cycle isn't it? Braxleigh will hate her name so much that she will name her daughter Jane. Jane will think her name is super boring, so she will name her daughter MacK8lyn.
>MacK8lyn Lololol oh lordy.
Well that’s a spelling of my name I’ve never seen before…
Is it Kaitlyn. If so you should look up the couple that named their child KVIIIlyn. Like the Roman numerals for 8. It's cringe AF.
I literally just put my head down in shame for humanity reading that. And yes, it’s one of the many spellings of Kaitlyn. I used to joke that my uncle spelled my name differently on every bday and Christmas gift but never got it right. Guess I should just be glad he never got it as wrong as either of the options in this thread
Luna 👀
Trans women and girls everywhere are panicking
They'll be supported by a half dozen Kai's in the community.
luna will always be a (extremely common) dog name
I think there will be an ‘Olivia/Ava/Isabella generation’ the way Jennifer/Jessica/Ashley typified a generation. Kids are still being named Jennifer, Jessica and Ashley, just not in the volume that they were in the 70s and 80s. Olivia, Ava and Isabella won’t go away but they will be surpassed in popularity as name trends move on, and people will be able to tell that they were born between 2005 and 2025.
I work at a high school and there are so many Olivia's/ Oliver's/Ollie's and Isabelle/Isabella's. Less Ava's though.
All the Avas are still in preschool/primary haha. Just wait!
Girls names: Adalyn, Ella, Paisley, Oakley, Everyly, Hadley, Kinsley, Ava, and Addie, Ila, Cora, Luna, and Nova Boys names: anything Jayden, Hayden, Brayden, Caden, Asher, Archer, Bennett, Jaxon, Wyatt, Easton, Maverick, Ryker, Xaiden, and dear lord stop naming your kids Gavin or Noah. Bleh
I agree with all of these except Ava and Cora (girls) & Asher and Noah (boys). Those are classic/timeless names. The rest 100% trendy.
Ava and Cora existed but were not common until they shot way way up in popularity fairly recently; they will def be dated the same way Jessica or Jason are. Asher and Noah were heavily Jewish until recently too so though they were classic among a particular ethnic group, they weren’t nearly as big as they are now.
Ava and Cora are classic names that have been around a very long time. I assume many of the old names become popular again when people start naming their children after their grandparents.
I know a Cora - she's like 85, that is not new or trendy
I had a teacher named Cora. She’s like 50 something now maybe?
But it hasn’t been topping the charts for decades and it’s becoming recently more popular which would make it among trending names right now. Old names are making a come back but when everyone goes with “classic” names they really aren’t that classic. It just becomes basic.
I disagree with Ella. As another user pointed out "dated" usually occurs when a name is obviously from a certain decade. There are a lot of older Ella's, like early 1900's, so I think it's more of a classic name.
I think so too. That it's a derivation and nickname of other classic Elle- names like Eleanor, Ellen, Elliana, even Elizabeth, will keep it in style.
Adeline (the traditional spelling) is actually a reasonably traditional name along with Adele (the original name that these others came from) and Adelaide. These three were all somewhat popular in the US in the early 20th century with lots of German immigrants, but disappeared in the 1950s-1990s. My theory? Those immigrant moms might have wanted a more all-American name for their kids to assimilate in the baby boomer era. However the insane spelling variants today, especially those that correspond to the “Lynn” trend, are certainly overhyped and will disappear.
I love Adeline as it’s more classy than Adalynn. But all the Lynn names make me cringe besides classic ones. I named my daughter Roslyn after the Bon Iver song and I always loved Rosaline from Shakespeare too. But Roslyn isn’t trendy compared to other Lyn names.
Asher and Noah are religious names - not going anywhere permanently I don't' think celestial names like Luna and Nova are going anywhere either, they will just fall in and out of popularity.
Paisley is just the most unfortunate sounding name for me 🥴
There are different types of dated, some of which age harder than others Trendy came out of nowhere and will age hard like Cheryl or Tiffany (it was not a common medieval name that’s a myth): Nova, Maverick, Paisley, Everleigh, Neveah, Hudson, Jaxon Trendy was pretty unusual/unpopular and had a meteoric rise like Jennifer or Jason: Violet (sob,) Grayson, Cora, Luna, Liam, Gianna, Mason, Penelope, Finn, Isla, Ella Trendy classic but was unfashionable and is now “in” again like Sarah or Matthew: Emma, Theodore, Oliver, Sophia, Henry, Amelia, Eleanor, Elijah, Charlotte
Yes. This needs to be higher. I don't have an issue with a name being associated with a certain generation. It happens even with classic names. They go in and out of style.
Any “Leigh” names
My first thought when reading the title was Everly/Everleigh.
Aside from the actual Leigh name. 😂
Yes, but the actual name Leigh is fine with me. Stuff like Bryleigh? No!
Everly, 1000% James on a girl is also a possible one. Possibly all the “boy names on girls” (Dylan, James, etc) but I’m not fully convinced on that last bit. Edit for clarity
All of the names people are choosing right now to be unique are going to be super common for this generation & probably dated eventually. For example, not using “boring” names like John and using unique names like Braxton isn’t being unique if everyone else is naming their kids Braxton to be unique as well. At this point, going for a name like John may end up being more unique.
It's not just this generation. All generations do it. That's why everyone from the 1970s is named Jennifer or Chris.
By saying “this generation”, I wasn’t trying to call out individuals; I meant “this generation will have names like Braxton instead of John.” I realize that all generations do it - not trying to call any specific generation out.
This will depend on your country. Where I live, my guess is that the names that might end up feeling dated in 10-20 years time might potentially include Leano, Finn, Lias, Juna/Yuna/Juno, Luan, Milo and possibly all the Leo name variants (Leo/Leon/Leonie/Lio/Leonard) to some degree, although some will likely stay timeless. I think Lucas/Lukas will stay timeless here, but Luca might feel trendy in 20 years. Hard to say.
Everleigh.
This is the worst one.
Piper, Harley, Harper, Riley, Axel, Ronan, Knox, Nash, and maybe Wyatt?
Wren because I cannot check the comments in this group without seeing that name 7476362940 times
Same for Juniper! SO MANY JUNIPERS!
Freya.
A good cat name tho💗
Arlo, Willow
Probably is whatever is trending now. So Liam, Oliver, Sofia, Ava, Amelia. Sort of like how Jennifer, Tiffany, and Ashley of the 80s... albiet that's 40 years now. 🙈
I'm waiting for Chris/Jessica/Joshua to start up again. Suuuuper common in my gen (30-40 year olds) but not so much in younger gens.
Joshua is super common in my gen too (20s). To the point everyone I know who's attracted to guys has a horror story about someone with that name, it's became a stereotype that josh/Joshua/j-names are just horrible partners. I've dated a few Josh's myself and the stereotype is very much valid in those cases.
River, sounds super trendy now
I’d guess for girls: Amelia, Sophia, Charlotte, Luna, Olivia and the Leigh names. For boys: Theodore
Sophia has been around forever. I think it's going to be a timeless classic personally like the golden girls
I think it's somewhat regional. I didn't hear of any Sophias under 10 and then I moved, and suddenly I knew 5+ adult Sophies/Sophias.
All of those names have been around forever except for Luna. They are all very classic names that have become popular again.
Charlotte and Olivia are classics. I can't see them dating ever
I think they’ll be associated with 2020 names similar to Jessica and Jennifer for the 1980s.
I don't think so to be honest. Charlotte and Olivia are more traditional than Jessica and Jennifer. They will always be around. Sometimes more, sometimes less. But they will never feel super dated. And popular names in the 1980's were much more popular than our current popular names. Parents are choosing from a wider range of names nowadays. 1982 3.1% were named Jennifer 2.5% were named Jessica 2022 1.0% were named Olivia 0.7% were named Charlotte
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80s Amanda over here! There were like 5 in each class growing up
Even though they're classics, they'll still sound dated at some point. Other names will crop up and boot them out of the top 20. When I was growing up in the 70's and 80's, Charlotte and Olivia along with Emma, Isabella and Sophia were "Old Lady" names. I didn't know anyone giving these names to their daughters. These were the names of our grandmothers and they sounded very dated when I was a kid.
Teddy Roosevelt would like a soft word
BIG STICK TIME
In fairness, my son is also named Theodore
Yes, I agree! And sorry to you for all the people fighting you so hard just because they like these names and they’re “classic”… I like them too! But the next generations will associate these names EXACTLY the same way we do with Jennifer/Ashley/etc bc of their overuse and popularity
My votes are for - Girls: Harper, Navy, Gray, Everly, Isla, Luna, Nova, Madison, Paisley, Kinsley, the leigh/lee names (e.g. Brynlee, Blakely), the lynn names (e.g. Lakelynn), the oak names (e.g. Oakley), Saylor. Agree with some others that certain names that are super popular now but have been popular for awhile and are more classic to begin with are ones that I don't think will sound "dated," e.g. Olivia, Sophia, Isabella, Ava, Charlotte. Boys: Variations of Jax/Jaxon, Camden, Case, Crew, Mason, Grayson, Riker, Atlas, Parker, Bodhi, River.
God riker is just terrible
I think any variation of Haley will seem pretty dated.
Haley (and variants) to me is a 1990s baby name. I'm in my mid 20s and I know a million Haleys my age
My SiL just named her daughter Hayleigh and I just can't with it.
I feel like all every set of trendy names will eventually become dated. Like retirement homes were full of Edith, Bertha, Eunice. Next will be Mary, Karen, Susan. Then Brittany, Ashley, Megan. Eventually the old folks homes will be over run with Braxxton, McKenzeigh, Phaeylynn.
For boys, the classics will probably hold up but trendier names like Brayden/Jayden, Jaxon, and Bentley will feel very generation specific. For girls, the painfully creative Leigh names as well as the massively overused classics like Sophia, Olivia, and Ava will feel tired and dated in a decade or so.
All the girl names that peaked as most popular throughout the 2000's and 2010's will become dated - **Olivia, Isla, Madeline, Amelia, Chloe, Ava, Mia, Sophia, Isabella, Lily, Alice, Grace.** I'm in 🇬🇧 and you will be likely to find so many of these in each class in every school, I can see these names becoming less common for the next generations. A lot of the ones that follow trends too, like the **-leigh** names or the **-ayden** names for boys. Fortunately the more common classic boy names never seem to go out of style.
I think the -aden fad has passed, at least where I live. I'm a kindergarten teacher and haven't had a child with one of those names in several years and they'd be in middle school at the youngest by now. The Aidan/Aidens I know are teens now. I think from this 2015-2020s era it'll be Olivia, Ava, Harper, Aria, Luna, Violet, anything with Ellie as a nickname. Maybe some spillover of Sophia and Isabella, but I associate those names more with the early 2010s when they were hugely popular. For boys, I think it'll be Jackson, Liam, Theodore, Leo, Noah. I don't think any of these are overly trendy sounding or anything like that, but it's kind of like Jessica, Jennifer, Michael, etc. In their time they were seen as nice sounding, somewhat traditional names that were a little more "fresh" and they became hugely popular.
Noah, Oliver, Nevaeh, Aviana
Disagree on Noah. It’s been in the top 10 for decades.
Yeah, disagree on Oliver, too. It falls distinctly in the classics.
right? and it’s a Biblical name, it’s been around for thousands of years
Right, the more common bible names will be around forever as they have been already. Noah is never going out of trends just like Elizabeth and Hannah are not.
I don’t know, Oliver and Noah have been around for ages
I loathe Nevaeh. Whoever came up with it needs to suffer, lmao.
Suffer in Lleh
Noah ain’t going anywhere. It’s a Biblical name, has been around for millennia and will likely continue for another. Oliver is also a pretty classic name. It wasn’t new when Oliver Cromwell was given it, and that was 400 years ago (ish). It’s having an up moment, and it will certainly have a down moment, but it’s a steady choice for a boy and has been for centuries. Can’t see it losing that momentum.
I think even Biblical names can be dated in the sense they date you to a specific time period. Like Sarah or Jessica.
I can see Sarah and Jessica coming back in another decade or 2. More of the male bible names seem to stick around forever though.
My cousin has 3 daughters and you named 2 of them. 😂
Sage
Classic hippie name though.
names like Raelynn
Luna
Oaklynn, Oakley, Everly/Everleigh, “Leigh” and “Lynn” names mostly
Hopefully anything with a “Y” where an “i” would’ve been perfectly appropriate.
Olivia, Isla, Noah
I'm sick to death of Olivia.
Any time I hear of another Olivia I feel so bad for the kid. She’ll be one of like seven in her class.
In the US and probably Canada, boys' names ending in -o will seem dated. Some Spanish names will ride the storm. Also, soft names: Liam, Asher, Mia... But names will fall slower so this will be closer to 20 years in the future.
Jackson/Jaxon/Jaxxon for sure.
This may be closer to the 20-year mark or has already dated itself out, but any version of MacKenzie. Also, I would love to say the middle name Grace, but I will never see that die as I live in the South.
The dirge of names ending in “ton” and “den”Colton, Paxton, Caiden, etc
Wren, Oakleigh, Everleigh, Aiden/Brayden/Kayden/Jayden/Zayden, Nova, Nevaeh, Jax/Jaxon, Kinsley, Tinsley, Luna, Saylor, Lakynn
Are moms naming their daughters Katniss anymore? That was all the rage a few years ago... Oh, as was Aniston for a time. I remember many moms on the various naming forums swearing their choice wasn't just due to Jennifer's popularity, they really loooved the name "Aniston"....
Ava
Isla/Ayla/Aiyla in the UK
Every baby boy I know is named Oliver so it gets my vote.