Edit: alt-text: Reddit post in r/TrueOffMyChest

Title: my friend just transitioned but I found out she’s naming herself Mildred. I wanna be supportive but, fucking Mildred?

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  • Captain Aggravated
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    503 days ago

    Are geriatric names coming back? Are we going to have a generation of Gladyses and Eustices?

    • @[email protected]
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      3 days ago

      It’s called the 100-year rule.

      All the common names we grew up with were retro to our parents, and names we think are just so boomer are probably going to be our grandkids’ names.

    • @[email protected]
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      163 days ago

      Looks like it. Names like Eleanor, Hazel, Lillian, Ellie and even Millie are in the top 100 baby names this year, and a couple of them are in the top 20 in the U.S.

    • @[email protected]
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      93 days ago

      I mean I want to name my first son Abe, but that’s because it was my grandfather’s americanized name (Ibrahim)

      I think some geriatric sounding names are still respectable sounding enough to stand as good names for kids today. Dot and Conny I think would be good ones for girls and those are nicknames for Dorothy and Constance.

    • @mindbleach
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      33 days ago

      Mabel is making a comeback thanks to Gravity Falls.

    • @[email protected]
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      13 days ago

      Assuming people are still even having kids then, inequality goes further and I doubt we will be