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Name fashion - guess my age

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GuessThatGranny · 03/02/2024 21:15

We all know certain names date people to certain decades.

So I wondered, in the spirit of retro names etc, if you can guess my age by my grandparents’ names.

They were called:

Elizabeth
Jane
John
Allan

OP posts:
MissingMoominMamma · 05/02/2024 08:02

@bigTillyMint - early 30s?

Lostsadandconfused · 05/02/2024 08:29

I’m mid 50’s and my parents were Elizabeth and Allan.

Janetime · 05/02/2024 08:34

GuessThatGranny · 04/02/2024 13:27

One of you has it spot on.

Grandparents all born in the early 1900s, and I’m now mid fifties. Just shows, that while we think names tie to a decade actually hard to guess.

Edited

Those names were all very popular for a very long time though, decades. Hence why it doesn’t work. Even in the 80s and beyond those names were common, particularly Elizabeth.

if you’d come on and said their names were things like Doris, or Mavis. Or Reginald it would have been names that would have been more in keeping with your thought process.

poppymango · 16/09/2024 17:12

murasaki · 04/02/2024 14:32

Those are all fairly classic, so hard to guess, it could have been a wide range. Try mine?

Horace, Kathleen, Ronald and Phyllis.

Grandparents? Then I'd say you were around 50.

KirstenBlest · 16/09/2024 17:50

My grandparents had common names that could be any age. Nobody would bat an eyelid at their full names if they were 100/80/60/40/20/5 yrs old.

One had a name that isn't used much nowadays but it's still used, and it would probably be more remarkable that there was no middle name.

JohnTheRevelator · 16/09/2024 19:21

Mid 50s?

JohnTheRevelator · 16/09/2024 19:22

My grandparents were called:-
Alexandra
Henry
Esther
William

JohnTheRevelator · 16/09/2024 19:24

LadyMacbethWasMisunderstood · 04/02/2024 23:27

My grandparents were May, Charles, Frederick and Flora. How old am I?

Early 60s?

justforthis1609 · 16/09/2024 19:26

JohnTheRevelator · 16/09/2024 19:22

My grandparents were called:-
Alexandra
Henry
Esther
William

Mine were Amy, Frank, Ellen and William.

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