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Names that end with en like Kayden, Jayden, and Hayden. Raiden was never part of it unfortunately.

Used to work in a fairly high end ski hotel. In February we would get dozens of little kids all going for ski lessons. I used to label their skis so they wouldn't get mixed up, but I always had to also ask the surname so I could write "Olivia T, Olivia M, Emily P, Olivia B, Emily H, Emily S" then start on the boys "Tom D, Tom A, Oliver G, Tom J, Oliver H...."

Also when someone asked me to get their luggage from the car - "It's a black Audi"

You don't fucking say. Which of the ten black Audis is it, Oli?

I personally know a lot of millennials named Megan (Meagan, Meghan, Megyn, et al)

Apparently, looking at a government website:

Jennifer Jessica Amanda Sarah Melissa

Michael Matthew Jason Christopher Joshua

And this 100% lines up with my classmates', friends', and family members' names.

Emily

Gen x here. Lots of Jennifer and Melissa.

Not Ada apparently. Every other Ada I meet is either 5 or 85

There were already two, Michael last initial and Mike last initial in my English class that i had to go by last name.

I'm born in '78. In Poland I had several Krzysztof in my class, in Germany Daniela and Andreas.

Brandon, Ryan, and Aaron for guys, Christine, Sarah, and Kat for girls. Kat gets more of a mention here because it's a short version of Kate which is a short version of Kathy which is a short version of Katherine. And when you combine those, that's like 50% of every generation.

Wait, Gen X had all the Kylies? That sounds characteristically Gen Y/Z.

Guess when I was born... Went to school with James, William, Dan, John, Joseph, David, Elizabeth, Lisa, Margaret, Debbie, Carolyn, Bonnie, Susan, Karen, Michael, and Peter. Most of the Karens I knew were nice people. They don't deserve the bad rap.

I went to school with more fucking Jennifer's and Christopher's

Makayla, McKenzie, McKenna, Austin, Jayden

Lilly, Luna, Sarah, Zoe

Millennial here, I've noticed a lot of Stephanies, Sams, Alexes, Chloes, and Michelles. Matthew seemed like a particularly popular one - at one point we had 3 Matthews in the same class (about 25 students), and I had 2 Matthews in my immediate friend group in college.

Edit: Rachel/Rachael was another common one, had a couple of those in my friend group at one point too

I think there were six Rachels in my year at school. And apparently if I’d been a girl, that would have been my name too…

There were 4 or 5 Jason’s in my kindergarten class.

French, old millenial. Plenty of Jean-"X". What I mean is :

Jean-François Jean-Michel Jean-Luc Jean-Mathieu Jean-Marc ...

Born 1981. Daniels and Todds abound.

Lots of Kylies, and the like, along with plenty of the traditional Sarahs and the like.

Luke!

The amount of Cody and Chris's I know is surprising. I've also met plenty of Daniels and Tonys.

Seems everybody I went to school with was either Matt, Mike, Shawn, Jason or Brian.

Far too many of the classmates I had in high school who had kids hella early all named their kids "Jayden" if it was a boy or "Skylar" if it was a girl.

Lee Ann, Cindy, Tammy, Debbie

Steve, Mike, John, Bob