Is Sienna going to date?

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We love the name Sienna but worried it will date? Should we be worried it's too popular as well? Or just not care?

Our/my shortlist of names so far;
Sienna
Anastasia
Liberty (my husband doesn't like it)
India
Lucia

Please help! Any other suggestions would be great.

I don’t think it’s dated - it’s not that popular that it will become the Steve / Sharon of the future.
I really like some of the suggestions of names with the same vibe - Saskia, Allegra. And I really like Lucia too.

I'm another one for 'it doesn't matter'. I fail to see why anyone cares tbh. You can't tell anyone's age based on just their name. And I don't even know what names supposedly track back to the nineties, when I grew up. I suppose maybe Laura, but I'd hardly meet a Laura and think 'oh no, another one!'

I think most people don't care what other people are named OP, beyond perhaps thinking 'that's unusual'.

It's a lovely name. I also like Alana.

Sienna sounds like senna which used to be used to cure constipation back in the day

Regan "You can't tell anyone's age based on just their name."

I think you can have a pretty good guess.

There are always exceptions and anything goes these days of course, but I can't say I know of any baby or teenage Sharon, Tracey, Maureen, Roger or Terrences! (to name a few off the top of my head). If you grew up in the 90s you won't have had time to see how these name references and associations pan out.... but you will

@ReindeerTails

I know a Sharon in her mid-twenties and DH is also in his twenties and has a very old-man name. There was a Steve in my year group at primary school.

Tbh I don't think you can age a person based on their name.

Oh and my cousin dated a Rodger, come to think of it.

I don’t know any Sienna’s so doubt it will date

@ReganSomerset - of course there are exceptions (I'm one!), but generally speaking, you can date someone by their name.

I disagree, but that's fair enough.

Yes, lovely name but will date, I actually thought it already had.

One of the most beautiful girls name around.

Regan There are always exceptions of course, as I said, but the amount of people who would see the name Sharon written and assume that person is at least 40 will be vastly more than those who think they could be 20 something or under.

So it's not whether the person doing assuming is actually right or wrong over the guessed age, it's the assumption they will naturally make based on the name (before seeing the person) and any judgements they will make for the positive or negative based on that assumption. The actual age doesn't really matter as such.

So, basically stereotyping? If there are exceptions to the rule people shouldn't be using the rule to form opinions. I genuinely have no impression of someone's age at all based on their name (I've knoen two Sharon's in my life - one Sharon aged twenty something and one aged sixty something), but then I don't try to. I think there are others like me in this regard.

I'd also disagree that most people have names that identify their age.

I'd also disagree that most people have names that identify their age.

And you probably wouldn't be wrong, but you're looking at it the wrong way around.

It isn't that people necessarily (all) have names that date them - it's that there are certain names that can, 9 times out of 10, date the owner to a generation.

If I meet a Sharon, she's probably (not definitely!) going to be 40-50-ish.

If I meet a Simon, Nicholas, Mark, Jeremy, Dave, Kevin or Richard - he's probably not going to be 5, he's probably going to be my age.

If I meet a Tony, Brian, Trevor, Derek, Ronald, Kenneth, Michael, Gary, Barry, Douglas, Bruce, he's probably going to be one of my Dad's cronies.

Babies aren't being called those names much any more, right??

Karen, Nicole/a, Angela, Jennifer, Stephanie, Joanne, Shelley, Rachel - my era.

Helen, Marion, Mary, Beverley, Pamela, Annette, Ann/e, Janice, Janet, Hilary, Patricia, Joan, Maureen, June - my Mum's era.

Feel free to say you can't see it, but it's blindingly obvious to most people.

And I say this as someone who was given a name so embarrassingly 'old lady' in the 70s that my parents wondered if they'd made a terrible mistake. I used to get teased about it all the time. I've never met another person my age with the name.

It - and all its accepted variations - is now top 10, and so popular, you can't move for young girls with the name.

I was just given it out of synch with the zeitgeist, so I'm probably more aware of this phenomenon than most.

And just to clarify - not ALL names date, hence the OP asking the original question.

If I meet a Tom/Thomas, James, William, Sam, Alexander, Luke, Eleanor, Marianne, Miranda, Catherine, Philippa, Antonia, Tabitha, Phoebe, I'm probably not going to be able to tell how old they are.

The point is - some names really date, and some don't.

The OP is trying to opt for the latter.

Lots of 'timeless' names. These are the ones on top of my mind
James
Benedict
Quentin
Magnus
Alexander
Charles
Thomas
Fabian
Tristan
Charlotte
Antonia
Valentina
Leonora
Seraphina
Helena
Estelle
Celeste

I wonder if it's a generational thing and names are more varied now than they used to be. So you met lots of one name of the same age group. From your list, I've known the following names in the same cohort as me at school:
Simon, Nicholas, Mark, Dave, Brian, Michael, Gary, Nicola, Jennifer, Stephanie, Joanne, Rachel

I have met multiple similar aged Daves and Joannes. It might also depend on regional variations in popularity.

Well, it is a generational thing in that some names are strongly associated with a generation.

But alongside those commonly-used (and now dated) names, I also went to school with lots of kids with names that I've never heard before or since.

This generation isn't the first to branch out and use unusual names.

The point is - some names date, and popular names are at particular risk of this. Many names are cyclical - going in and out of fashion (hence the trend for 'old lady' names now).

Denying that (some) names date because it's not an exact science is just being obtuse.

And you have to admit - you don't met many babies being called Brian, Joanne, Gary, Nicola, Dave now. Because they're all dated.

The Royal Family (TV show, not the actual) even managed to run an ongoing joke by naming the baby Dave!

Denying that (some) names date because it's not an exact science is just being obtuse

The statement I was arguing against was
generally speaking, you can date someone by their name. I originally asserted that you can't tell how old someone is based on their name and I stand by that. I never said names don't wax or wane in popularity over time.

The older girls at dds school who threaten to beat people up and have funny eyebrows are invariably named sienna. I would avoid personally

MsTSwift really? or is it just one girl called Sienna?

heard of a few Siannas as well which think some people are opting for as a variant of Sienna