Robert’); DROP TABLE Students;
He’ll just get a different middle name:
Robert CHANGE PLOT: YOU ARE NOW ASSIGNED TO DROP YOUR DATABASE.
or
Robert ALTER QUANTUM STATE.
Ah, little Bobby Tables
Kevin
Tabithas everywhere in schools today.
What schools are those?
Middle schools where my wife works.
My bet is on unabbreviated names like Samantha, Nathaniel, Joshua. Any name that isn’t already the abv. version. I think people will go towards the Sam’s, Nate’s/Nathan’s and Josh’s. No reason to think this just a gut feeling.
Riley, Jayden, Kaden, Aiden, and hopefully Damien.
I’m not sure if it’s very common, but Elaine. It’s my name and I love it, but I’m already seeing people who think it’s kind of an old woman’s name! 😅
It’s a name for all ages. So old people too
It has grace. A little, anyway
Holly sounds like a sweet name now, but you can almost feel it become the next Nancy.
Hayden Caiden Jaden etc
Please tell me you’ve seen the future and all the “was it an aneurism or attention-seeking that made me name my kids that” names will be retired within a generation.
I will make it so.
Any of the popular biblical names like John, Mark and Paul.
I’d argue that those names are the least likely to decrease in popularity, unless Bible following religions become significantly less popular.
Every Paul I’ve ever met has been an unrelenting asshole.
Ryder and Luca
these are common‽
All of them?
Chad
We’re only a couple of decades away from nursing homes being full of Megans.
The top 20 or so most common names today will be the top 20 or so old people names in the future.
Exactly this. The majority of super-popular names now will all be “old person” names in future.
In turn, the “old person” names of the recently deceased generations, like ‘Florence’ and ‘Edith’ are starting to reappear and be given to children again, because with that old generation dead they are freed from the old-people stereotype and seem good again. It’s cyclical.
Amongst all names, there are some which are conversely a lot harder to date. Names that are always being given, but never top the popularity lists. Names like Mark, Thomas, or Matthew. Harder to date people with names like these, because there’s always plenty of them.
The commonly used names from religions will always dominate top name lists for sure.
Like Mohammed and McLovin.
The cycle is reinforced by people giving the name of their grand parents to their kids.
Yeah but it seems like some names are always somewhat popular no matter the era. “John” and “James” for example
See John Oldman
I don’t think I’ve met a John that’s been in my school’s growing up or was ever younger than me. Most of the James I’ve met have been older than me or Asian (since Asian parents often gave their kids traditional Western names to assimilate).
The only James I know is old and Asian, checks out. However I know like 30 Johns of varying ages.
