https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:47:23 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955364 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 09:20:23 +0000 boiledpnut 955364@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. We chose a classic name partly for this reason. We didn't want something trendy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955302 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:58:51 +0000 autumnlove 955302@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My lo's name is already dated! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955277 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:49:27 +0000 LuLu Mom 955277@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Um I don't think so, her name is not very popular so I don't think people will assume the year. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955161 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:11:56 +0000 cmomma17 955161@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: I don't think so because it falls in the 80's on the popularity lists and I doubt it will make top ten ever in the next couple years. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955157 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:09:14 +0000 Foodnerd81 955157@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@skibobrown: I have mixed feelings about it-- like I do think my name dates me to the 80s, but I don't actually mind that so much. It was annoying to always have another in my class though. And DH's name is so common that everyone with his first name went by their last names in college. So I'd like to avoid that but the top names make up such a smaller percent of overall births than they did when we were born so I don't think it will be as much of an issue. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955156 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:08:50 +0000 Honeybee 955156@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jacks: Three is a lot! I've only met one other person, actually. You're just super well connected. ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955155 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:08:43 +0000 regberadaisy 955155@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope; we purposefully chose a name that is not popular. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955149 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:06:35 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 955149@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Honeybee: you know that I know or know of 3 people with your name, right?</p> <p>My girls have pretty classic names and if it hey got dated at all by their names it would be to 1910-1920. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955113 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:57:35 +0000 skibobrown 955113@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. Her name is pretty classic. I don't like trendy names for exactly this reason. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955112 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:56:48 +0000 anbanan15 955112@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think DS has a more classic name, although it has gained popularity in the last several years, I'm not sure it would necessarily date him.</p> <p>There is no way the name we picked out for our daughter would date her. It's currently out of the top 7000 and I don't foresee it gaining any sort of popilarity in the US. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955104 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:49:57 +0000 LazyLightning 955104@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My kid's name was really popular in the 80s/early 90s (like Amanda, Jessica, etc) so if she's dated they'll be wrong on her age!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955100 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:48:21 +0000 Honeybee 955100@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My kids' names are pretty classic, so I don't think they'll ever seem dated. My name is really unusual, so I don't think it will ever seem dated ever. It's not like there are a lot of people running around with my name from any particular decade/generation. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955099 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:48:09 +0000 oliviaoblivia 955099@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think so. It's pretty uncommon (below the top 2000) but with Downton Abbey using it I think it will get more popular. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955093 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:44:22 +0000 mrs. bird 955093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think this is especially true for girls! I'm going my name helps people think I'm young since it's only recently become popular :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955091 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:43:57 +0000 loveisstrange 955091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My name definitely dates me. C's name is totally classic and I don't think will date her at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955090 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:43:38 +0000 looch 955090@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son's name was very popular in the 1960s, so, no idea if it will date him or not. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955087 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:42:49 +0000 mediagirl 955087@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, you won't know what "era" she is born in but you could guess she was born after 1920. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955082 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:41:14 +0000 Dandelion 955082@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. DS's name is Daniel. It's timeless. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-think-your-los-name-will-date-himher#post-955050 Tue, 23 Jul 2013 07:25:21 +0000 Foodnerd81 955050@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Do you think your LO's name will be indicative of when they were born? In general if I hear someone's name is Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, I think they were likely born in the 80s since those names were SO popular then, or someone names Paula, Joan, Peggy, is probably in there 50s or 60s by now. (Boys names were so much more stable, it seems). </p> <p>With the most popular names today, I feel like some will 'date' a person-- like Mason, Ava, Aiden and it's rhymes, but others seem so classic to me that even though they are really popular now I wouldn't think they will be specific to this decade-- Charlotte, Abigail, William. </p> <p>My own name peaked in the early 80s and then fell out of popularity pretty quickly, so anytime I meet someone with it I assume they are about my age-- and I'm rarely wrong! </p>