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Why? Those names are just as ubiquitous! And all those Michaels! #1 from 1954-1959, then again from 1961-1998! Jason, OTOH, was never #1, was #2 1974-78, #3 1973 and 1979-80, and #4 in 1981-82. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/top5names.html
Yeah, it's NOT about the name itself, I used to LOVE Olivia and Isabella. I was born in in 1963 and I concur on Jason and Jennifer as well. My kids born in 1982 and 1983 had TONS of playmates with those names also Joshua.
Unoriginal trend following is what ruined the names' appeal for me not the names themselves.
And the connotation attached thereto.
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So many of you seem to be forgetting the hundreds of thousands of Jennifers and Jasons for at least a decade. I'll take Olivia, Sophie, and Isabelle over that any day.
I have a sister-in-law named Jennifer, and she and her husband named all three of their daughters Jennifer along with middle names that sound similar because they start with the same letter. They all go by their middle names. To me it reeks of narcissism to name all your kids after you, but maybe they just decided to make naming a game, I don't know.
I have a sister-in-law named Jennifer, and she and her husband named all three of their daughters Jennifer along with middle names that sound similar because they start with the same letter. They all go by their middle names. To me it reeks of narcissism to name all your kids after you, but maybe they just decided to make naming a game, I don't know.
Jason is one of my favorite guy names, though.
My brother has a Jennifer and a Jason, born at the height of it for both of them. I agree about naming kids after yourself. I was just thinking about that re: Donald Trump, JR.
I have a sister-in-law named Jennifer, and she and her husband named all three of their daughters Jennifer along with middle names that sound similar because they start with the same letter. They all go by their middle names. To me it reeks of narcissism to name all your kids after you, but maybe they just decided to make naming a game, I don't know.
I don't know, men have been naming their children after them for thousands of years. I've had friends who have said the same thing as you, but I just don't get why it's always pointed out as narcassistic when women do it.
I always feel more like its boring and unoriginal. Like really, you couldn't come up with any other name?! I get when its traditional, but I have a friend who's sisters all named their first born son after the father despite having no other "jr" in the family. It just felt like they were all copying the first sister.
The last two names of the kids I tutored... Xzavion and Tonique. I have a wicked hard time remembering names when I have nothing to associate them with in my brain.
Actually, the poster did not say all of those names were trendy-just that she did not like them. And there ARE way too many girls named Madison, Isabelle/Isabella/Bella, Abby, Sophie/Sophia, Olivia, and Chloe. I have two teenage daughters and those six names account for about 50% of their friends and acquaintances (I would add Hannah and Emily to the list).
No matter how classic, traditional, beautiful etc. a name may be, when you hear it over and over and over it really loses its luster.
My daughter is 25. Her class had all the Ashleys, Jessicas, and Caitlins.
But she was the only one in the school system with her name.
The last two names of the kids I tutored... Xzavion and Tonique. I have a wicked hard time remembering names when I have nothing to associate them with in my brain.
I have a hard time remember names when they don't spell them properly
when they want to take a common name and make it "unique", it doesn't work. Even the parents end up calling them by a nickname
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