The top 20 or so most common names today will be the top 20 or so old people names in the future.
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.
Robert’); DROP TABLE Students;
Ah, little Bobby Tables
He’ll just get a different middle name:
Robert CHANGE PLOT: YOU ARE NOW ASSIGNED TO DROP YOUR DATABASE.
or
Robert ALTER QUANTUM STATE.
We’re only a couple of decades away from nursing homes being full of Megans.
Hayden Caiden Jaden etc
When I was in school every third girl was named Jennifer and every third boy was named Christopher. Don’t really see either of those nowadays. I’m in my 40s so they’re about 15-20 years from being old people names.
Also Karen. The internet ruined that name.
When I can finally have a cat, it will be named either Jennifur if female, or Christofur if male.
I find it funny to name my cat after very common human names, although these names are not so common were I live, that would avoid some friends or family members to feel offended I name my pet after them.
Karen has been a very popular name through many years. I imagine it’s dropped close to zero now.
Ella/ellie became way over popular. My kids knew so many girls with those names, more than one in a lot of their classes. No one gives out a name that’s so common
Isabella for dogs. There are so many Bella’s and Izzies. Maybe it’s just my family: my brother got Bella. I got a rescue named izzie and honorable mention to my other brother with Ozzie
Renesmee, Nevaeh, Demure, Brightly
Tabithas everywhere in schools today.
Chad
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.
Let’s say you want to find what will be an “old person’s name” in 2060. What you do is subtract 60 from 2060 => 2000. Then go to google and type in “most popular baby names year 2000”
pick the first 10 or so and those will be “old person’s name”
Kevin
Ryder and Luca
