{"id":16641,"date":"2024-07-03T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T16:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=16641"},"modified":"2024-07-03T12:37:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T16:37:10","slug":"baby-naming-issue-out-of-touch-with-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2024\/07\/03\/baby-naming-issue-out-of-touch-with-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Naming Issue: Out of Touch with Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been thinking about how I am now out of touch with Today’s Babies. For a long time there, I knew lots and lots of families having babies, and my kids were all young and in school with a lot of young kids, and I knew their friends’ siblings’ names too, and I felt pretty In Touch. But now, I keep getting surprised by trends happening outside my view. This is surely what happens to every grandparent-aged person, which explains why so many of them(\/us!) say things like “But that’s an Old Person Name!!” and “Wow, THAT’S an unusual name!!”—often about names currently in the Top Ten.<\/p>\n

Recently someone told me they’d chosen a very old-fashioned name for their baby, and I was surprised to find out the name was Millie. I would not have put the name Millie in the category “very old-fashioned”—but I am a full generation older than these parents. It made me wonder what other names current parents might think of as Old Person Names—and which of the names I’D consider Old Person Names they’re getting ready to surprise me by bringing back!<\/p>\n

I was wondering if some of us who ARE still in touch with Babies and Baby-Havers would share with us what they’re hearing. Not just the statistics we can see by looking at the Social Security Administration’s baby name data<\/a>—but actual on-the-ground, in-the-daycares\/preschools\/friend-groups data.<\/p>\n

This could be answered in a variety of ways: you could say some TRENDS you’re seeing, or you could say some particular names you feel like you’re hearing everywhere now; you can say just one name that’s caught your attention or you can make a long long list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been thinking about how I am now out of touch with Today’s Babies. For a long time there, I knew lots and lots of families having babies, and my kids were all young and in school with a lot of young kids, and I knew their friends’ siblings’ names too, and I felt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-4kp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16642,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16641\/revisions\/16642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}