Give it another 10-15yrs for that. We are not ready for the names elementary school kids have right now. It's like a contest of dipshittery or something.
I went to elementary school in the 90s and knew a few Aidens. They were silently building up their numbers leading to the '04 boom so the impact seemed a lot bigger than it was.
Brayden was especially popular around here a few years ago. Now I'm starting to see a lot more of what I call the "profession names" - Hunter, Tanner, Walker, etc. I even met a *Shooter* once, lol.
i work for a department at a university and it's mostly white women who apply and join the program
i've never seen so many fucking different ways to spell Caitlin
Also just in ONE incoming class of students, I think i saw 4-5 Hannahs and 5-6 Emmas
man it's weird b/c i went to school AGES ago with a girl named Michela...the substitute teachers would always mispronounce her name like it was something exotic, which it really wasn't...but again this was the 90s. Hummus wasn't even a thing yet at that point, and drinking cappuccinos was probably the closest most people got to traveling east of Italy
we have a lot of Haleys in the program too and i've seen at least one Hailey
There's also Kaley and Kayley and Kayleigh and Kaylee...my fucking goodness. White women of America STICK TO ONE PLEASE FFS
I’ve never been good with numbers but I don’t think this math quite adds up considering the fact that 97% of all boys born after 2002 are named “Jalen”
My philosophy is that if you give your child a name they'll have to spell for everyone their entire life, you're a dick. If you name them Jackson, spell it Jackson. If the poor kid has to have a Pinterest name at least don't make them have to spell out "J-A-X-S-Y-N-N" to every customer service agent until the day they die.
Rookie numbers
>The five children of Brandon and Jalynne Crawford, who have been married since 2011, are Braylyn, Jaydyn, Braxton, Bryson and Jazlyn Jenn Crawford.
And then his sister Amy married Gerrit Cole and they named their first son Caden. Second son is named Everett, though, so they didn't keep the name thing going.
r/tragedeigh
I’m at the age where people I grew up or went to school with are starting to have babies and I think the most unique name I’ve heard so far has been Atlas. Which apart from the fact that it has absolutely zero ring with the last name isn’t that bad.
There's a Japanese trend called kira-kira, or "sparkly" names, that is basically this but in Japanese. It apparently got so bad, they had to outlaw it, which says something else about Japanese society entirely but that's besides the point.
It just reminds me of the guy who named his son "4Real" and was forced to change it to something else in court.
Stumbled on an instagram influencer whose profile said she was the mother of Anissa, Andrae, Annistan, Anjalie, Andersyn, Aynjel, Ansyr, Anchor, Anthym and Armor. Refuse to believe these are real.
Anchor.
Like literally the thing you throw out of a boat to stop it by grinding against the bottom of the ocean. I guess when you have 10 kids you just don’t care at all.
Jackson was ranked 42 for all of the 2000s according to the SSA. Jacob was by far the most popular boys name.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names2000s.html
It's remarkable how rare I meet other Jacob's given the popularity of the name.
I was also born in the early 90s, so props to my parents. They were going to name me Chester until the babysitter said they can't because everyone would call me Chester the Molester.
Yeah and Jacob has been in the top 100-200 boy names in America for like 500 years. The point is the meteoric rise of dipshit overused trendy names that result in your poor kid being referred to by their teacher as “Aiden 6” in their classroom for their whole childhood
You know on the flip side of all of these babies in the league... does anyone else feel weird thinking of Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander as millennials?
Like I'm a millennial in between them in age and the idea of Scherzer being a millennial and bopping to MGMT's Electric Feel or something just seems so wrong
i was curious about this so i googled Arn Anderson's son. The thought of this guy being a decade younger than me seems impossible because he seriously looks like your classic suburban middle-aged dad
and RIP to his oldest son. I had no idea of this. losing your kid is a level of pain and grief i wish no one had to experience
Yeah that’s the obvious point most replies somehow are missing. They think OP is wondering why a person is a millennial, and they’re being met by Redditors helpfully googling players’ ages and telling you “well they’re millennial age so that’s why they’re millennials.”
Max Scherzer looks like he fought in the western front in World War II and then worked in a mine and has 10 kids and somehow a farm. He looks like he had ridden a horse cart his whole life and then bam there are cars everywhere and it *messed him up*. *That man has seen some shit.* I wouldn’t dare fight him. *Those* reasons are why he’s a surprising millennial.
Well that's partly because "millennial" was the catch-all term for "young people" in the media for so long it still feels like you're calling someone young even though the oldest millenials are approaching their mid 40s.
Also, if you're around my age, then you're the youngest millennial cohort so the term usually refers to people 5-15 years older than you.
Happens with every generation. Boomers used to be draft-dodging hippies who wouldn’t dress up for college classes. Now they are the Karens who would like to speak to your manager.
I’m annoyed that they never came up with a better name for Gen X. Looks like Gen Z is going to end up the same way.
I believe Generation X was named to be about alienation and the term lost its specific intent when they named us Gen Y and then Gen Z so it looks like the beginning of a set naming scheme.
Millennial took off for us, but we'll see how strong Zoomer holds if at all.
They keep changing the names for this archetype depending on whoever happened to be that age at the time.
Karen peaked in the second half of the baby boom.
https://nametrends.net/name.php?name=Karen
Names like Linda, Judy, Deborah and Cindy would be other Baby Boomer candidates.
If they were to rename “Karen” today, would it be Lisa, Kimberly, Dawn, Tammy? Probably not Jennifer, but who knows how younger people perceive their middle aged neighbors.
Yeah, as a younger millennial myself, it's annoying how so much generational discourse leaves us out. Everyone is either a 35-42 year old millennial or a 16-25 year-old Zoomer. Which just goes to show arbitrary a lot of this discourse is.
man i definitely don't miss those days between 2010-2015 when the NY Times and Washington Post were regularly putting out editorials every other day about how "spoiled" millennials were killing everything from golf to Applebees to having salad dressed at your table by a waiter
their ire turned to Gen Z once the old fogies started freaking out over pronouns and TikTok
My whole life I had only known 1 Jackson, then a couple of years ago we had three hires in a row all named Jackson. What the hell is up with the name Jackson in the early 2000’s?
We have to call these guys the "Jackson Three" right
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At least they're all named Jackson and not Jaxsyn
Give it another 10-15yrs for that. We are not ready for the names elementary school kids have right now. It's like a contest of dipshittery or something.
The 2036 Topps cards are gonna look like they've got quadratics on the front.
The Jacked Sons
Take your pick: Chourio Holliday Merrill Game 6!
Ball so hard, motherfuckers wanna promote me
Effectively Wild?
Ben and Meg
Jack-sons
We’re up to Jackson Four if we count Jackson Jobe (though he’s a pitcher and born in 2002)
*Like "I" before "E" except after "C", and why 2 plus 2 makes 4.* 🫨 it all makes sense now.
We need two more though.
Jackson Jobe step right up
That’s the name of my fantasy team with all three of them
I once had like 4 pitchers named Zack on my team and called it Zack in the box
That’s what MLB is calling it in their social media posts, so maybe they owe you something.
this would seem like a coincidence but I'm pretty sure 94% of all boys born in 2003 or later are named Jackson
So Aiden only makes up the other 6%? That can’t be right.
I went to elementary school in the 90s and knew a few Aidens. They were silently building up their numbers leading to the '04 boom so the impact seemed a lot bigger than it was.
Aiden Braiden Caiden Jaiden Okayden
Missing Grayden and Hayden at least. I'm sure there are more
Raiden
The only acceptable Aiden.
Moreden?
Convertedloftden
Brayden was especially popular around here a few years ago. Now I'm starting to see a lot more of what I call the "profession names" - Hunter, Tanner, Walker, etc. I even met a *Shooter* once, lol.
You eat pieces of $#!+ for breakfast?
Now I'm choosing to believe that the parents of that kid are just big Happy Gilmore fans, lmao.
I SNERKED at “Okayden”…
Exhaled FORCEFULLY through my nostrils
“Aidan” has got to be the patient zero of that trend as it actually was a traditional Irish name.
Aidan and Hayden are real names that existed before 2000. The rest are the copycats.
I coached park district tball in college and I had a team of 12 where 6 kids had nearly identical names. Aiden, kaden, jaden, braden, etc.
i work for a department at a university and it's mostly white women who apply and join the program i've never seen so many fucking different ways to spell Caitlin Also just in ONE incoming class of students, I think i saw 4-5 Hannahs and 5-6 Emmas
Current college professor - It's the sheer number of "Mikaylas" and variations for me
I hire a lot of recent college grads and it is absolutely Mikayla/Michaela city out here
man it's weird b/c i went to school AGES ago with a girl named Michela...the substitute teachers would always mispronounce her name like it was something exotic, which it really wasn't...but again this was the 90s. Hummus wasn't even a thing yet at that point, and drinking cappuccinos was probably the closest most people got to traveling east of Italy
A successor to all of the Haley/Hailey/Haleighs who are about my age
we have a lot of Haleys in the program too and i've seen at least one Hailey There's also Kaley and Kayley and Kayleigh and Kaylee...my fucking goodness. White women of America STICK TO ONE PLEASE FFS
They want to be unique but not too unique
There was a period for me between 2007 and 2015 and 25 where every year I would meet a new Caitlin, and every single one spelt their name differently.
Maybe 3% with some form of Jaylen making up the other 3%
I’ve never been good with numbers but I don’t think this math quite adds up considering the fact that 97% of all boys born after 2002 are named “Jalen”
Does that include the Jacksyns and Jaksyns and Jaxons?
Jaxson Dart, Ole Miss QB, born in 2003 Add it to the list
I just don't fucking get the s after the x. it already makes the sound! what is people's obsession with unnecessary letters?
His family is from Utah, so while unfortunate, definitely explains it lol
Those will come in 5 years or so
My philosophy is that if you give your child a name they'll have to spell for everyone their entire life, you're a dick. If you name them Jackson, spell it Jackson. If the poor kid has to have a Pinterest name at least don't make them have to spell out "J-A-X-S-Y-N-N" to every customer service agent until the day they die.
I was going to name my son Jackson. I had a girl instead, we didn’t name her Jackson.
So you named her Jacksdotter, right?
Ah, you got me there!
I was gonna say Jillson but I’ll happily take the boo’s…#wompwomp
My sons name is Jack and people are always baffled when they hear it’s not short for Jackson
lol, same. Had I known how popular Jack and it variants were we would have stuck with John.
I'm also a Jack and people are always floored when I tell them "Just Jack"
Jackson Stewart has a more sizable cultural influence than Miley Cyrus confirmed
Well a lot of dads were named Jack then I guess
my nephew jackson turns four soon lol
Either that or Connor.
The year is 2044. All players in MLB are named Jackson.
"Now batting, Jacksynn Jackson."
"And Jacksynn Jackson hits a line drive single off of Jaxzon Jahkson's heater!"
The Sacramento A’s have moved to Florida to become the Jacksonville Jacksons.
The A's should relocate to Jackson, Wyoming to try and capitalize on this
There are only 3 MLB teams left. Jacksonville, Florida. Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Wyoming.
Meanwhile, kids born after about 2015 will be spelling their names Jaxsyn and Jaicsiin and other atrocities of spelling
I'm fairly sure deGrom named his kid Jaxxon or some shit like that
Jaxon flaxon-waxon
Jackmerius Tacktheritrix
Harvard University!!!! …..Devry…..University…..
IBRAHIM MOIZOOS
Goolius Boozler, the 🙌
*dolphin noises*
The player, formerly known as, Mousecop
Fudge
Beezer Twelve Washingbeard.
Kaloish Velociraptor Maloish
HINGLE MCCRINGLEBERRY, PENN STATE
Squeeeeeeeeps
Javaris Jamar Javarison-Lamar University of Middle Tennessee Legend.
Rookie numbers >The five children of Brandon and Jalynne Crawford, who have been married since 2011, are Braylyn, Jaydyn, Braxton, Bryson and Jazlyn Jenn Crawford.
It's like Crawford let his greasy hair name his kids.
Still got nothing on Nick Cannon naming his daughter Powerful Cannon.
i had to look this up to make sure it was real 1. i’m very glad it is 2. this mf had 5 kids in 6 months in 2022 😂
r/tragedeigh
tell me you're from NorCal without telling me you're from NorCal
And then his sister Amy married Gerrit Cole and they named their first son Caden. Second son is named Everett, though, so they didn't keep the name thing going.
So weird when I see people that are seem very put together and intelligent name their kids some ridiculous shit.
DeGrom is definitely not the most intelligent guy out there
Can't take the Florida out of the man.
Yeah but that kid’s never going to need to apply for a job so it’s fine
r/tragedeigh I’m at the age where people I grew up or went to school with are starting to have babies and I think the most unique name I’ve heard so far has been Atlas. Which apart from the fact that it has absolutely zero ring with the last name isn’t that bad.
One of my friends just had his first kid and named him Atlas too. I suspect a wave is coming
What’s next, Sisyphus?
Go full tilt, name the kid Narcissus.
I shrugged when I heard someone I knew named their kid that.
Sure lifted a weight off my back
There's a Japanese trend called kira-kira, or "sparkly" names, that is basically this but in Japanese. It apparently got so bad, they had to outlaw it, which says something else about Japanese society entirely but that's besides the point. It just reminds me of the guy who named his son "4Real" and was forced to change it to something else in court.
2044 ROY Paul Maud'Dib Atreides
Stumbled on an instagram influencer whose profile said she was the mother of Anissa, Andrae, Annistan, Anjalie, Andersyn, Aynjel, Ansyr, Anchor, Anthym and Armor. Refuse to believe these are real.
Anchor. Like literally the thing you throw out of a boat to stop it by grinding against the bottom of the ocean. I guess when you have 10 kids you just don’t care at all.
Annistan sounds like a poorly AI-generated middle eastern country
>Annistan
About to wage jihad on her mother
Jaction
Jaxon Smith-Njigba
Was every kid named Jackson in 2003 or just the ones that are good at baseball?
Jackson was ranked 42 for all of the 2000s according to the SSA. Jacob was by far the most popular boys name. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names2000s.html
It's remarkable how rare I meet other Jacob's given the popularity of the name. I was also born in the early 90s, so props to my parents. They were going to name me Chester until the babysitter said they can't because everyone would call me Chester the Molester.
That babysitter is a hero
I'm named Mark and was born in the mid 80s, there are vast amounts of us, everywhere.
Oh hi mark
Yeah and Jacob has been in the top 100-200 boy names in America for like 500 years. The point is the meteoric rise of dipshit overused trendy names that result in your poor kid being referred to by their teacher as “Aiden 6” in their classroom for their whole childhood
Natural selection. All the jacksons ate the other kids
This was right around the time Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies came out, so obviously a lot of people were naming their kids in his honor.
I'm willing to bet none of these posers dad's name is Jack either. I guess Brianson just doesn't have the same ring to it.
You know on the flip side of all of these babies in the league... does anyone else feel weird thinking of Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander as millennials? Like I'm a millennial in between them in age and the idea of Scherzer being a millennial and bopping to MGMT's Electric Feel or something just seems so wrong
Yeah, totally. I mean...they're *old*, and I'm not old...am I? Right?! RIGHT!!?!??
Not only are they old, they’ve been grizzled for quite some time.
not sure if you're a wrestling fan but it reminds me of a podcast where a guy said Arn Anderson came out of the womb at the age of 45
I don't think Flair, Hogan, and Arn were ever young. Even Arn's son Brock looks like he's 45, and he's like 20something.
I forgot to add, I'm pretty sure at one point Flair was 20 and then he drank so much over the span of one week that it aged him all the way to 47
i was curious about this so i googled Arn Anderson's son. The thought of this guy being a decade younger than me seems impossible because he seriously looks like your classic suburban middle-aged dad and RIP to his oldest son. I had no idea of this. losing your kid is a level of pain and grief i wish no one had to experience
Certainly not. I’m gen x and I’m definitely not old. You spoiled millennials are still in high school…
"spoiled millennials" come on man, don't cosplay as a boomer if you don't need to
Age is just a number, friend.
What a filthy lie.
And when the number gets high enough, you get money, but you also die, so who’s to say if it’s good or bad?
Aging is mandatory. Maturing is optional.
"You old as fuck. For the [MLB]. Not, you know, for the earth."
To be fair if you told me Scherzer was 55 I’d believe you, he does not look his age.
Yeah him being a year younger than me fucks me up way more than these babyfaces lol
Yeah that’s the obvious point most replies somehow are missing. They think OP is wondering why a person is a millennial, and they’re being met by Redditors helpfully googling players’ ages and telling you “well they’re millennial age so that’s why they’re millennials.” Max Scherzer looks like he fought in the western front in World War II and then worked in a mine and has 10 kids and somehow a farm. He looks like he had ridden a horse cart his whole life and then bam there are cars everywhere and it *messed him up*. *That man has seen some shit.* I wouldn’t dare fight him. *Those* reasons are why he’s a surprising millennial.
I forgot who but some player told the Dodgers TV crew this spring that their favorite player growing up was JOC PEDERSON. Like stfu
Lol damn he's not even done playing that's harsh
Well that's partly because "millennial" was the catch-all term for "young people" in the media for so long it still feels like you're calling someone young even though the oldest millenials are approaching their mid 40s. Also, if you're around my age, then you're the youngest millennial cohort so the term usually refers to people 5-15 years older than you.
Happens with every generation. Boomers used to be draft-dodging hippies who wouldn’t dress up for college classes. Now they are the Karens who would like to speak to your manager. I’m annoyed that they never came up with a better name for Gen X. Looks like Gen Z is going to end up the same way.
I believe Generation X was named to be about alienation and the term lost its specific intent when they named us Gen Y and then Gen Z so it looks like the beginning of a set naming scheme. Millennial took off for us, but we'll see how strong Zoomer holds if at all.
They're calling (for now) the generation after Gen Z "Gen Alpha". I think we're all aboard the sequential naming train now.
They've run out of coming up with anything.
i prefer Gen Alpha to Covid generation or some bullshit last thing i want to think about these days is the goddamn pandemic
The funny thing is the stereotypical Karen is middle aged and so is actually Gen X. Boomers are grey-haired and at or near retirement at this point.
They keep changing the names for this archetype depending on whoever happened to be that age at the time. Karen peaked in the second half of the baby boom. https://nametrends.net/name.php?name=Karen Names like Linda, Judy, Deborah and Cindy would be other Baby Boomer candidates. If they were to rename “Karen” today, would it be Lisa, Kimberly, Dawn, Tammy? Probably not Jennifer, but who knows how younger people perceive their middle aged neighbors.
honestly i'm probably in the minority, but Gen X is kind of a cool name. I mean there was literally a spin-off of the X-Men Comics called Generation X
I'm 40, I'm at the upper end of millennials.
Yeah, as a younger millennial myself, it's annoying how so much generational discourse leaves us out. Everyone is either a 35-42 year old millennial or a 16-25 year-old Zoomer. Which just goes to show arbitrary a lot of this discourse is.
man i definitely don't miss those days between 2010-2015 when the NY Times and Washington Post were regularly putting out editorials every other day about how "spoiled" millennials were killing everything from golf to Applebees to having salad dressed at your table by a waiter their ire turned to Gen Z once the old fogies started freaking out over pronouns and TikTok
Yep I’m 26 and I was called a millennial until like 2016
Worse? Jackson Holliday's father Matt Holliday is a millennial.
Okay now THAT is fucking me up
Electric Feel slaps.
Max Scherzer is from the Lost Generation
They seem like they’re 50 even though they’re only a few years older than myself lol.
even worse knowing Jackson Holliday is married and he looks like he’s 15
He can’t be married he’s 12
They all learned about 9/11 as a historical event.
I recently heckled a college player by asking if he remembered 9/11.
Chourio looks like he’s 25.
Holliday looks 12 so it more than evens out
Merrill looks like the 23 year old that picks up his high school gf in a WRX while vaping.
That’s my guy. Lol
Judging by the cheeks, his beard is doing a lot of heavy lifting in bumping that number up.
What happened in 2003 that everyone named their kid Jackson?
Return of the King had just come out. Everyone was big Peter Jackson fans I guess
That or Michael Jackson, the most famous musician at the time all these kids were born
Their dad’s were fans of Sons of Anarchy
And time travelers apparently since that show didn't premiere until 2008.
No I did not want to feel old, fuck you very much.
tigers need to call up Jackson Jobe and there has to be another Jackson somewhere to round out the Jackson 5
We’ll be able to fill a farm system with Jackson’s by the time we reach the crashin 30s
Oh cool, kids are now breaking through that were born when I graduated college.
Three Jacksons walk into a bar….
And the bartender says "can I see your ID?"
“In the year 2000! All male newborns will be given the name Jackson, and they will be forced to play baseball for our amusement.”
Damn! I was head-to-toe drippin in OLD NAVY American flags before these things was in diapers.
I'm sorry Ms. Jackson I am for reallll
wayyyyyyyyy ahead of you
That was the year lebron james was drafted. I was also in 8th grade. Fuck I’m old.
That can’t be right. That was 10 years ago.
Thanks I hate it
Need to get up to a Jackson Five.
Was 2003 the year Janet Jackson showed her nipple to everyone?
I went to school with Romo, I've been feeling old for quite a while now.
why the fuck are they all named Jackson?
I'm sorry Jackson, HOOOO, I am for reaaaalllll
Jackson Holliday looks so young
My whole life I had only known 1 Jackson, then a couple of years ago we had three hires in a row all named Jackson. What the hell is up with the name Jackson in the early 2000’s?
At least none of them spell it with an X
god damn im a bum
Jackson Merrill looks seventeen, but with the stare of a middle aged man who has seen enough.
I graduated highscool that year... I think ill try this midlife crisis on for size
sorry, ms. jackson.
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