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Alex122019

What were the names of the kids you grew up with?

:list: Name List

I’m interested to hear what the kids in your neighborhood were called. I grew up in a city in the Northeast region of America, there were a lot of kids on my block.

Here they are:

Kiersten and Stephen; Alphonso; Caron and Amanda; Haley and Carry; Sarah and Abby; Jon, Jen, Janine, Jill, and Jackie; Summer, Brooke, and Skylar; Danielle and Eli; Kyle and Cody; Mike, Laura, and Danny; Steven, Katelyn, Matthew, Billy, and Tricia; Felicia, Darlene, and Tiffany; Andrew and Kyle; Stephen and Micheal; Kevin and Reina; Craig

Posted Jan 18, 2022, 2:21 AM UTC

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carita98•

Long Island in the early 2000’s: Sarah, Molly x2, Liam x2, Nicholas, Christopher, Aiden, Fiona, Jacqueline, Vincent, Michelle, Amy, Melissa, Mathew, Michael, Darren, Joseph, Nina, Olivia x2

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SlipperyGaloshes•

def some crossover with my LI neighborhood in the same time frame

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carita98•

So funny! I wonder if they’re the same kids? I used the ones in my direct neighborhood and then the ones who rode the school bus with me!

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SlipperyGaloshes•

Mine and my brother’s are included in your list, plus 4 others, but complete matching sibsets.

I think just popular names around these parts lol

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Alex122019OP🇺🇸•

Someone got in early on the Aiden trend!

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Vicslickchic•

Let’s see! Long time ago! Cathy, Ricky, Bonnie, Candy, Dottie, Nancy, Donna , Billy, Kenneth, David, Scott, Vicki, Joel, Judy, Tracy, Lynn, Gay, Hilary, Stuart…

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Alex122019OP🇺🇸•

Gay? Like Gaygay? Or pronounced like Guy?

I LOVE the name Joel.

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FraughtOverwrought•

I assume it’s Gay, well established female name that went out of fashion a generation or so ago in Australia at least

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Alex122019OP🇺🇸•

I’ve never heard of that, interesting!

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Vicslickchic•

I like Joel too. It is kind of unique today, not used much. Gay was actually this kids middle name that she went by. First name was something with 3 syllables .. can’t remember exactly. It sounds weird today, given that Gay has a different meaning now. But yeah, it is pronounced like it is spelled!

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octopusxparty•

Mid-Atlantic suburb in the 90s: The ones I remember are: Erica, Victoria, Kathryn, Ryan, Meghan, Jennifer, Becky (Rebecca), Stacy, David, Tammy, Robbie (I’m guessing nn for Robert), Heather

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Alex122019OP🇺🇸•

Extremely 90s!

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Economy-Ad3139•

Amanda x7. Also a lot of Jessicas, nicholes, matthews, and Michaels.

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Alex122019OP🇺🇸•

That was my experience in school as well. Every boy was named Matthew, Micheal, or Chris!

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ApprehensiveFly6244•

Names of the kids in my elementary school class: John, Jessica, Buck, Brooke, Keli, Miranda, Ruby, Nadia, Marcus, Devin, Christian, Marcos, Dustin, Caleb, Adam, Annie, Kayla, Debbie and Michael. I left out a few names because they are so identifiable and unique! Grew up in Virginia in a somewhat ruralish school

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Alex122019OP🇺🇸•

Was Buck a nickname?

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ApprehensiveFly6244•

Yes for Frank! 🙂

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RYashvardhanFijian Canadian•

Tiny elementary school in early 2000's Vancouver, BC: Simran, Herman, Godfrey, John Michael, Nishad, Ashkar, Neela, Gaganjot, Pawanjot, Eric, and Ivan

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Alex122019OP🇺🇸•

This is such an interesting mix. A bunch of names I’ve never seen, are they of Indian descent?

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RYashvardhanFijian Canadian•

Yeah, I lived in a Punjabi neighbourhood growing up.

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BureaucratGrade99•

On my street: Shirley, Josh, and Melissa. Amanda. Yvonne. J.J., Jorge, Priscilla and Kitzia. Briefly a family of a few kids, though I only knew the names of Blue and Lenwood (Lenny). Carmen, Crystal, David

Elementary school: Keisha, Cynthia, Tasha, LaShawn, Marco, Kenneth, Ronnie, Vanessa, Taurean,

High school: Zacarias, Olivia, Mireya, Jesus, Anahi, Elias, Marvin, Seth, Camille, Victor, Cara.

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Alex122019OP🇺🇸•

Interesting! Lenwood is definitely unique. People on here would rake that name over the coals, but I’m sure it was just accepted by everyone as a kid.

Any info on Kitzia? Never heard of that one before

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BureaucratGrade99•

Lenwood and Blue were brothers, so definitely from parents who favored less common names. They were both born in the 80's (if I had to guess Blue was 1982ish, Lenny 1987ish).

Kitzia's parents were from Mexico, and the story was that it meant princess or something (she was definitely the princess in that family, anyway!). I haven't seen any clear info on the name online. She was born in the late 80's. Siblings were Jorge (older) and Priscilla (younger).

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fuzzypuppies1231French Canadian-American / Gender Bender•

Here are just a few off the top of my head…Allie, Heather, Spencer, Rita, Elisa, Hanna, Sophie, Sabrina, Katie, Shelby, Katrina, Ari, Isabella, Tessa, Ashley, Chelsea, Abby, Becky, Jessi, Olivia, Brooke

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Alex122019OP🇺🇸•

I love Tessa, Allie, and Jessi(e). Ashley also has a special place in my heart even though it was so trendy back then.

Did any of these kids ruin these names for you?

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fuzzypuppies1231French Canadian-American / Gender Bender•

Not really, they were all pretty nice! Maybe Shelby, she just had such a strident personality 😂

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perseph0ny•

Allison, Chloe, Molly, Jillian, Whitney, Ashley, Sydney, Ashton, Brenna, Kelsey, Connor, Tanner, Hunter, Jacob, Grant, Nicholas, I'm from the South. Kelsey and Sydney used for boys and girls but the boys always went by their middle name.

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Alex122019OP🇺🇸•

I lived in Tennessee for like five years and was so surprised by how often guys went by their middle names!

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Amyava510•

Jennifer x4, Stephanie, Meghan, Lisa, Holly, Tara, Leah, Tammy, Cynthia, Erica, Melissa, Mandy, Elizabeth, Valerie, Amanda, Danielle

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Alex122019OP🇺🇸•

Valerie is one of my all-time favorite names. If I had another baby, I’d probably use it!

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Amyava510•

I love it too, we considered it when I was pregnant with our first child.

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libertybell00•

Grew up in a small coon ass town in southern Louisiana in the early 90's. Candace, Tara, Jessica, Monica, Rebecca, D.R., Kendra and Kenny. Coushatta, Priscilla, Robbie, Amanda, Hailey, Darcy and Bubba. Richard, Rocky Bill and J.R. Seth and Asher. Then there was my oddball ass name Liberty or Lib (not Libby!) for short.

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Alex122019OP🇺🇸•

Bubba!!!

I really quite like Seth and Asher!

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Alex122019OP🇺🇸•

I feel like Linda is the real wild card here.

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boubun•

Brett, Jason, Rachel, Adam, Kyle, Jessica, Chloe, Ryan x2, Dani (girl), Taylor (boy), Jennifer, Lauren.

California, early 90s.

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Alex122019OP🇺🇸•

Jealous! Everyone wanted to be in cali in the 90s haha. I like Dani for a girl tbh, it’s sort of edgy but sweet at the same time.

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ellofthewispName Aficionado 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏳️‍⚧️•

Grew up in a somewhat large town in Yorkshire:

Alex, Joe, and Kelsey

Natalie and James

Jodie, Jenny, Andrew, and Chris

Megan, Liam, and Stephanie

Danielle

Georgina

Barry, Keely, Jade, Cory, Caitlin

Dane and Zoe

Connor, Daniel, Luke, Steven, and Ashley (my memory is a bit unclear on all the boys names but there was definitely a Connor and Daniel.)

Ella and Alfie

Jamie

Gareth (he might have had an older sister?)

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Alex122019OP🇺🇸•

Was Jamie a boy?

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attheark•

Grew up in a rural village in Ireland. Lots of us around, both due to big families and also apparently everyone was just cranking out kids at that time -- I swear I've never seen the place as full of kids as when I was young myself.

My closest friends when I was very young (3-4): Natalie, James, Joseph, Eithne

Various siblings of friends I hung out with as well: Caitríona (Ríona), Seán

My closest friends when I was in primary school (5-11): Chloe, Conor, Max, Andrew, Stephen, Caireann, Holly, Niamh, Aoife, Emily, Helen, Samuel, Christy, Clodagh

Various siblings: Thomas, Peaches, Piers, Áine-Marie, Ruairí, Lasairfhíona

My closest friends when I was in high school (11-16): Brónagh, Caoimhe, Michael, Deirdre, Conor, Aaron, Damian, Fearghal, Sorcha, Oksana (Sunny), Joshua, Brendan, Maureen, Eimear, Jodie, Daithí, Aibreán

Various siblings: Muireann, Ronan, Dónal, Luíseach (Lenny), Miles, Saoirse, Dearbhlagh, Aoibheann, Naoise, Patrick, Luke, Alina (Anya), Daimhin, John, Lucy

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FraughtOverwrought•

Off the top of my head from school in the 80s in Australia:

Amanda, Daniel, Maria, Richard, Gabrielle, Ellen, Andrew x2, Jacinta, Lara, Ashleigh, Vanessa, Jessica, Lucy x 2, Jacqueline(Jacqui), Rebecca, Simon x2, Greg.

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