Mother Makes Surprising Realization About Millennial Names After Talking to Her Daughters

What comes to mind when you think of old names? If you’re like me, you might be thinking of Gertrude or Cheryl. But time seems to have caught up with us, at least according to one woman.

Family content creator Steph Pase After talking to their children, millennials claim their names are outdated.

A mother realizes that millennial names are considered outdated after talking to her daughters about the kids in their classroom.

Name trends come and go, but like most things, as we get older some things change without us even realizing it. Case in point: old person names.

Pase has two young children, ages 6 and 8, and an innocent conversation with them led to a realization that was hard for him to understand. So she took to TikTok to share her disbelief.

“You know what I find wild,” Pase began. “I have an 8-year-old and a 6-year-old, and the names they say are like their friends’ names, I can’t even pronounce it.” He continued, “I said to my 6-year-old… is there anyone your age named Sarah, Alex, Jack, or Daniel?”

Perfectly normal, classic names that never go out of style, right? WRONG!

His daughter asked, “Like the names of old people?” His reply was met with laughter.

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The mother was struck by how, according to the children, Millennials are similar in name to their parents’ generation.

In the 90s, Michael and Jessica were at the top as the most popular names of the decade. Social Security Administration.

Christopher and Ashley came second, and Matthew and Emily came third. Rounding out the top five are Joshua and Sarah in fourth place and Jacob and Samantha in fifth place.

According to Gen Alpha, these are the names of elders, not the names Pase remembers as “old” like Karen from his own childhood.

Now his children call the names he knew old.

Commentators agree that the names most common to them are now obsolete.

“As an elementary school teacher, every year I get further away from the names I know, but kids don’t know a different name,” one commenter said.

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Others mentioned names that are gaining popularity when it comes to Children of the alpha generation. “Luna, Harper, and Arlo are the new Ashley, Jessica, and Stephanie,” the top comment read.

Some felt that baby names have become weird because parents see the process of naming their children as a problem. chance to be unique.

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Gen Alpha names may not be as unique as we thought.

Research based on Social Security Institution data It shows that Alpha Gen’s most common girls’ names are Olivia, Emma, ​​Sophia, Ava and Isabella, while the most popular names for boys are Liam, Noah, James, Elijah and William.

These are all pretty classic names, so how come we hear unusual names popping up everywhere?

There are two possible explanations. One is that these unusual names are gaining more traction online and in parenting groups, and suddenly everyone is raving about them.

Another explanation is that uncommon but rarer names fail to catch on because more traditional names retain their place in “baby name trends.”

Michael, for example, has been in the top ten names across all generations since Generation X.

What millennials need to remember is that generational trends are cyclical and what is old can become new again very quickly. All millennials have to do is wait. When Alpha Gen begins parenting their own children, they’ll be equally shocked to see Olivia and Liam take the former title.

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Sahlah Syeda is YourTango’s writer covering entertainment, news and human interest.