What names will totally date someone in 2050

Everyone will have the middle name Grace, Rose or May (because it was their grandmother's name ) whereas my generation have Louise, Marie, or Jane.

Luna
Layla
Isla
Lily-May
Harper
Paisley
Aurora
Myla

Arlo
Otis
Archie
Alfie
Theo

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Lol I just wrote similar without seeing your post. All the dragon woman’s names, Cersei and Sansa.

Anything game of thrones related.

I met a Khalisi the other day, That name is very much a moment in time.

I think Lucy, Katie, Amy, Ellie, Olivia, Rosie are all similarly classless and enduring and will still be around in 30 years
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Lucy and Catherine (Katy) maybe. Perhaps Rosie/Rose. But Amy, Ellie, and Olivia are not popular in my age group (40s), so it's only in more recent decades that they've soared in popularity and they could just as easily come crashing back down. My own name was popular (top 30 ish) for a couple of decades but is nowhere now. But people in the 1970s maybe though it was an 'enduring classic' 🤷‍♀️

They're popular again now, but when I was young they were definitely old lady names; as were Emily, Grace, Ruby and Isabel, all now very popular again

Agreed - I had a great Auntie Ella who would be well over 100 if she was still alive, think she was officially an Eleanor but always known as Ella. Majority of this generation have died now and 95% of remaining Ellas are under 25

Lily is similar. Lots under 30 but very few between 30 and 90!

Primary age children in 2050 are likely to be Judith, Janet, Pauline, Christine, Wendy, Philip, Martin, Tony, Keith etc

Odd how a lot of people equate classic with dull. I love classic names. I have one myself (although it's massively out of favour in the UK because of its association with a particular politician, no prizes for guessing who that might be) and both my children have absolutely timeless names. They've never complained. Easy to spell, easy to pronounce, only one common spelling - all huge plus points. I am not a patient person and it would drive me nuts to have to go through the spelling/pronunciation every single time.

How odd. I'm 7 years older than you and I can remember lots of Elizabeths, often known as Liz. Common names I remember from school (so born in the early 1960s) would be Sally, Katherine (various spellings, mostly shortened to Kate or Kathy), Sarah, Sharon, Tracy, Karen, Amanda, Claire, Suzanne, Rebecca, Michele, Barbara, Alison, Gillian, Jane, Janet, Jean, Jeanette, Janice, Anita.

I don't know: I think Lucy, Katie, Amy, Ellie, Olivia, Rosie are all similarly classless and enduring and will still be around in 30 years.

I think there are popular boys names that are both ageless and classless- James, Robert, Michael, Daniel, Joseph have probably never been out of the top 100 choices and will still be there in 2050. I suspect there will be very few girls names in todays top 100 still popular in thirty years

My grandmothers were Lily and Ella! So those names must have been popular since the 1910s/20s

Not at all. They were popular in the 1910s/1920s and, partly because of that, became popular again in the 2000s/2010s. They weren't popular in the 1940s-1990s.

Some people name their children after elderly/deceased family members. Some look for something fresh so go back decades. Therefore names cycle.

So old people in the 2050s will have the same names as old people did in the 1980s/90s, I think. Plus more modern names like American surnamey sounding names and nature names like Willow and Autumn

My grandmothers were Lily and Ella! So those names must have been popular since the 1910s/20s.

Ivy is my guess.

I feel exactly the same. Very very few names are truly timeless, and I find those names snooze-fests. I don't buy into the idea that just because a name is a 'classic' it is automatically timeless which seems to be a pervasive opinion on here - Jane and Jessica are both classic but evoke in my mind a very different and distinct age category.

That being said I would try and avoid really popular names, but this isn't because my child would be identified as a 2020's baby. I have a well-used classic name myself and I do find it a pain in the bum never being the only 'Summa', for a while at my work there were 5 of us and I never knew if I was being addressed or a colleague.

I am old and have a very dated name - I fucking hate it.

In the 2050s old age pensioners (70/80+) will be Jason, Kevin, Paul, Mark, Sarah, Joanne, Nicola, Louise

Middle ages (50s/60s) there will be lots of Lauren, Jessica, Sophie, Emily, Sam, Ben, Oliver, Lewis

Young adults (30s/40s) will be Arthur, George, Archie, Teddy, Theo, Ava, Isla, Evie, Tilly, Lily

But I don't really get the stress over names dating. Most do to some degree, unless you go for one of the very sensible (dull) ones, and I personally have no problem having a name that sounds very of its time. I'm sure when I'm 60 it'll be the height of fashion again.

Isla will be this generation's Lisa. Same four letters re-jigged.

And when dd had a hernia when she was 7, the doctor thought she was an old lady by her name. She is old now to have that name. There are millions under ten with her name now.

If I hear of someone called Jackie or Michelle I assume they're probably in their 50s or 60s

Michelle was very popular in the '80s. That's the era I associate it with. Perhaps because I was born then.

There will be a lot of middle-aged men called Aiden, Jaden, Kaden, Kyden, Coben, Conan, Keenan, Braden, Bladen, Bryden, Brayden, Mason, Landon, Devon, Dalton and Logan.

I'm 54 and there were no Lucy/Alice/Elizabeths when I was at school so to me they are either old ladies or under 30s.