Katie and Travis 6: Maturing Faster than Carlin

[Coconut Flan]

Continued from here:

 

[gobucks]

The multiple kids in a class with the same name definitely seems to have diminished from my days in school when we had several Jen/Jenny/Jennifer, Heather, Michelle, Amy, Eric, Robert, Andrew combinations in class. Now you have classes with Aiden/Drayden/Caden/Kayden/Jaeden/Jayden/ Brayden. 

 

I feel like that isn't true. My kid has several friends named Maya and Adah.

[JermajestyDuggar]

The common names in my children’s elementary are Charles/Charlie, Miles, Luke/Lucas/Luca, Elliott, Henry, William, Jackson. 
 

The girls have more varied names. Which is the general trend in the US. There are more girl names than boy names. So you are more likely to have the same name as someone else in your class if you are a boy. 

[CanadianMamam]

There is an Olivia in each of my children's classes. It is a school of 128 kids. 

[HermioneSparrow]

22 minutes ago, CanadianMamam said:

There is an Olivia in each of my children's classes. It is a school of 128 kids. 

There's a pandemic of Liam's here, lol. I'm having a boy and my mom suggested Liam, immediate veto. I'm naming my kid Sebastian which isn't inusual but not that common either.

[Tdoc72]

From last thread:

Yes, it was Josie in a talking head saying that all the good baby names would be take (after Erin announced Brooklyn).  I just watched the Mother’s Day episode that was on Tubi and it was in there. 

[GuineaPigCourtship]

Yes, I grew up in the hayday of Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, and Megan.  My name is a classic never-goes-out-of-style name but isn't all the commonly used as a first name.  I was in 7th grade and transferred to a small school and there was another girl in my class with the same name and nobody was EVER talking to me when they used it so I'm probably a bit salty about that.

[WatchingTheTireFireBurn]

I live in the midst of aiden/jaden/jaydon/caidens

 

Also thread title. Hahahahha

[JermajestyDuggar]

2 hours ago, GuineaPigCourtship said:

Yes, I grew up in the hayday of Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, and Megan.  My name is a classic never-goes-out-of-style name but isn't all the commonly used as a first name.  I was in 7th grade and transferred to a small school and there was another girl in my class with the same name and nobody was EVER talking to me when they used it so I'm probably a bit salty about that.

Same. There were two other girls in my class with my name and literally no one ever meant me when they whispered my name across the classroom. They were both much more popular than me. 

[Keys]

Yes, I also had multiple Ashleys, Amandas, Madisons, and Kyles in my class. 
 

We named our baby what I think would be a timeless, but not common name? My husband looked it up recently, and it was in the 600s for baby names. So far haven’t encountered anyone with the same name in all the baby activities we’ve brought her to. We’ve encountered multiple of Hudson, Liam, Nathan, and Nora 

Edited June 27, 2023 by Keys

[GreenBeans]

13 hours ago, JermajestyDuggar said:

The girls have more varied names. Which is the general trend in the US. There are more girl names than boy names. So you are more likely to have the same name as someone else in your class if you are a boy. 

I think here (Germany) it’s the other way round, at least that is my impression (no scientific evidence, just anecdotal). So many girls have one of several really really similar and somewhat cutesy-sounding names - think Leni, Lia, Mia, Mina, Lina, Emilia, Lea, Ella… It’s been a trend for a couple of years now and feels like it’s getting worse. Of course there is also a trend to strong, traditional names (think Charlotte, Luise, Clara), but not as much as for the boys.

For boys, many classic old names are coming back, they would have been considered extremely dated “old person names” when I was kid, but now they are coming back in style (think Wilhelm, Friedrich, Carl, Theodor). There are also very popular names for boys with the same soft-sound-with-lots-of-vowels-theme the popular girls’ names have (e.g. Emil, Liam, Leo), but it feels like there is more variety overall for boys’ names. 

[GreenBeans]

42 minutes ago, Keys said:

We named our baby what I think would be a timeless, but not common name? My husband looked it up recently, and it was in the 600s for baby names.

Does 600s mean it’s still somewhat popular because there are so many names in the US? I think here (Germany) top 10 means really popular, top 100 still means it could easily happen to have someone with the same name in your class at school, lower than top 100 is less common, 600s would probably be really really rare here.

Our son’s name is in the top 100, but it isn’t super common at all. People will know the name, and every once in a while there may be another kid on the playground with the same name, but in his daycare he’s the only one with that name.

It can happen, though, that a name suddenly rises in popularity, and while your kid is the only one in his/her grade with that name, several grades below there are suddenly lots and lots of kids with the same name. It happened with “Matteo” here - it used to be really rare, and then suddenly started getting popular and is now in the top 10, even predicted to become the number one most popular name of 2023. I guess those parents who picked it a couple of years ago because they wanted a not-so-popular name for their child aren’t happy now.

[CarrotCake]

2 hours ago, GreenBeans said:

I think here (Germany) it’s the other way round, at least that is my impression (no scientific evidence, just anecdotal). So many girls have one of several really really similar and somewhat cutesy-sounding names - think Leni, Lia, Mia, Mina, Lina, Emilia, Lea, Ella… It’s been a trend for a couple of years now and feels like it’s getting worse. Of course there is also a trend to strong, traditional names (think Charlotte, Luise, Clara), but not as much as for the boys.

For boys, many classic old names are coming back, they would have been considered extremely dated “old person names” when I was kid, but now they are coming back in style (think Wilhelm, Friedrich, Carl, Theodor). There are also very popular names for boys with the same soft-sound-with-lots-of-vowels-theme the popular girls’ names have (e.g. Emil, Liam, Leo), but it feels like there is more variety overall for boys’ names. 

Funny, here in the Netherlands these old-person-names are also back in style and I love it. We have names like Willem, Teun, Hugo, Guus being really populair now.

[Sops2]

Susan, Lesley, Marjorie, Ann, Mary, Patricia, Helen, Sheila, Dorothy, Deirdre,- all 1950s for sure!

[Marly]

4 hours ago, CarrotCake said:

Funny, here in the Netherlands these old-person-names are also back in style and I love it. We have names like Willem, Teun, Hugo, Guus being really populair now.

Yep, I really dislike those names 😂 
But I am glad people have different tastes, and that there are more than 10 names to pick from.

My hb and I both have very typical Dutch names, and both work in international environments. It's a pain. My hb's name is actually a slur in English so that really sucks.

I like my name, and he likes his, but we've both agreed that we would like a name that's easier to pronounce for both English and Spanish speakers (the language circles we are in). Pronounceability is not the main reason though, because I believe that people can always try to learn to pronounce something, and I think it's important that everyone can go by their given name. We just really don't like most typical Dutch names.

[CarrotCake]

18 minutes ago, Marly said:

Yep, I really dislike those names 😂 
But I am glad people have different tastes, and that there are more than 10 names to pick from.

My hb and I both have very typical Dutch names, and both work in international environments. It's a pain. My hb's name is actually a slur in English so that really sucks.

I like my name, and he likes his, but we've both agreed that we would like a name that's easier to pronounce for both English and Spanish speakers (the language circles we are in). Pronounceability is not the main reason though, because I believe that people can always try to learn to pronounce something, and I think it's important that everyone can go by their given name. We just really don't like most typical Dutch names.

I also have a very Dutch name but I actually like it. It helps that it is easy to pronounce by most people and it does not mean anything. I did have coworkers with names like Harm, Floor, Freek and Joke which led to some strange reactions from our foreign colleagues.

My husband is not into the super Dutch names, like you, so we named our son a Dutch version of a biblical name, so even though it might not be a known name in all languages, almost everyone will recognize it.

Edited June 27, 2023 by CarrotCake

[sleepygirl1]

Katie and Travis posted a TikTok that I actually found funny. And I glad to see Travis’s dad in it too.

 

 

[Angelface]

22 hours ago, HermioneSparrow said:

There's a pandemic of Liam's here, lol. I'm having a boy and my mom suggested Liam, immediate veto. I'm naming my kid Sebastian which isn't inusual but not that common either.

I absolutely love the name Sebastian. It was on our short list when I was expecting our younger son. If we’d had anymore boys we’d most likely have used that name. 

[nvmbr02]

I love Sebastian too. I work at a small elementary school and we have a few (3 currently, I think). I wanted to use the name for our second son, but we had 2 girls and 1 boy so didn't get a chance to use it. 

[Expectopatronus]

13 hours ago, WatchingTheTireFireBurn said:

I live in the midst of aiden/jaden/jaydon/caidens

 

Also thread title. Hahahahha

Three years ago, in a class of 25 kids, I had an Aiden, Brayden, Caden, Hayden and two Jayden’s. All buddies. Yes, I called out the wrong name a couple times. 

[gobucks]

Ugh BEC. Their video is titled "We married to young". That education worked out really well for them. 

[llucie]

Seems like saying he doesnt consider flirting with other girls cheating and that he has considered divorcing Katie has sitted well with the fans...

He even had to put up an explanation/apology up. I do think people are over reacting but they clearly dont know their audience if they thought that was going to go well.

Edited June 30, 2023 by llucie
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[gobucks]

5 hours ago, llucie said:

Seems like saying he doesnt consider flirting with other girls cheating and that he has considered divorcing Katie has sitted well with the fans...

He even had to put up an explanation/apology up. I do think people are over reacting but they clearly dont know their audience if they thought that was going to go well.

It didn't bother me watching it. He was just being honest. A 20 year old is going to think "ugh divorce" when they get into an argument with their significant other. I'm sure he hasn't thought that since they had a child. I appreciated what he said about waiting for the wedding until after he graduated because of how depressed and lonely Katie was at first. 

[llucie]

10 minutes ago, gobucks said:

It didn't bother me watching it. He was just being honest. A 20 year old is going to think "ugh divorce" when they get into an argument with their significant other. I'm sure he hasn't thought that since they had a child. I appreciated what he said about waiting for the wedding until after he graduated because of how depressed and lonely Katie was at first. 

I agree there is nothing wrong with considering divorce. And Katie didnt seem that upset about it, she even made a joke about calling Gil to tell him.

But the fans that were quoting bible verses in the comments were not expecting that.

[JermajestyDuggar]

My sister married at 20.5 just like my mom did. My mom was not happy and thought my sister was too young. And now my sister has kids and she would never want her to marry at 20.5. It’s funny to me how people will marry young and they are against their kids marrying young. But they end up doing it anyway!

Edited June 30, 2023 by JermajestyDuggar