Can you try to think of 10-20 boy and 10-20 girl names that you hear often?
Like names around you that you hear/see quite a lot! (Not same person, every day)
Mine are :
[name_m]Liam[/name_m]. Everywhere. [name_m]Ethan[/name_m], [name_u]Gus[/name_u], [name_m]Silas[/name_m], and [name_m]Henry[/name_m] a good bit too. And for girls [name_f]Hazel[/name_f], [name_u]Addison[/name_u], [name_f]Sophia[/name_f], [name_f]Ava[/name_f], [name_f]Emma[/name_f].
Boys: [name_m]Jackson[/name_m], anything that rhymes with [name_u]Aidan[/name_u], [name_m]Elijah[/name_m]/[name_m]Eli[/name_m], [name_u]Owen[/name_u], [name_m]William[/name_m]
Girls: [name_f]Katie[/name_f]/[name_f]Caitlin[/name_f]/[name_f]Katherine[/name_f]/[name_f]Kate[/name_f], the [name_f]Ella[/name_f]/[name_f]Bella[/name_f] names, [name_f]Anna[/name_f] (usually in a double name), [name_f]Grace[/name_f], [name_f]Mary[/name_f] (usually in a double name), [name_f]Emma[/name_f]/[name_f]Emily[/name_f]
That’s for the little ones. In my age group it’s [name_m]Will[/name_m]/[name_m]William[/name_m], [name_u]Alex[/name_u], [name_u]Chris[/name_u], [name_m]Matt[/name_m]/[name_m]Matthew[/name_m], [name_f]Lauren[/name_f], [name_u]Ashley[/name_u], [name_f]Emily[/name_f], and [name_f]Jessica[/name_f].
Boys: [name_u]Alex/name_u, [name_m]Ben/name_m, [name_u]James[/name_u]/[name_u]Jamie[/name_u], [name_m]Jacob[/name_m]/[name_m]Jake[/name_m]
Girls: [name_f]KATE[/name_f]/[name_f]KATIE[/name_f]/[name_f]CATE[/name_f]/[name_f]CATIE[/name_f] and all of the formal versions! There are something like 5 Kates/Katies in my little brother’s class of 20. Also, [name_f]Emma[/name_f], [name_f]Sophia[/name_f], and any name starting with M (out of the 8 girls in my eighth grade class we had a [name_f]Mary[/name_f] who went by [name_f]Molly[/name_f], a [name_f]Maris[/name_f], a [name_u]Madison[/name_u], and a [name_f]Michelle[/name_f])
Growing up I heard these alot: [name_f]Jennifer[/name_f], [name_u]Ashley[/name_u], [name_f]Jessica[/name_f], [name_f]Brittany[/name_f], [name_u]Madison[/name_u], [name_u]Taylor[/name_u], [name_u]Lindsey[/name_u], [name_m]Joshua[/name_m], [name_m]Matthew[/name_m], [name_m]Adam[/name_m], [name_m]Jonathan[/name_m], [name_m]Steven[/name_m], [name_u]Kyle[/name_u]
Nowadays I hear: All the [name_u]Aiden[/name_u] names (including one girl [name_u]Aiden[/name_u]), [name_m]Liam[/name_m], [name_m]Landon[/name_m], [name_f]Chloe[/name_f], [name_f]Isabella[/name_f], [name_f]Ava[/name_f]
Boys - [name_m]Ethan[/name_m], [name_m]Luke[/name_m], [name_m]Liam[/name_m], [name_u]Evan[/name_u], [name_u]Aidan[/name_u] (in ALL it’s spelling variations…as well as rhyming cousins [name_u]Jayden[/name_u], [name_m]Caden[/name_m] etc…)
Girls - [name_f]Emily[/name_f]/[name_f]Emma[/name_f], [name_u]Mackenzie[/name_u]/[name_f]MacKayla[/name_f]/[name_u]Madison[/name_u]/[name_f]Maddy[/name_f] (these all feel the same to me), [name_f]Megan[/name_f], [name_f]Lily[/name_f], [name_f]Ava[/name_f], [name_f]Ella[/name_f], [name_f]Olivia[/name_f], [name_f]Katie[/name_f], [name_u]Brooklyn[/name_u].
I can usually guarantee that no matter which school/class I am teaching in, there will be several children with these names in the class. One kindergarten class I recently visited had THREE Brooklyns!
[name_f]Bella[/name_f] - [name_f]Isabella[/name_f] too, but I hear a lot of Bellas.
[name_f]Maria[/name_f] - oh yeah, where I live, this variant of [name_f]Mary[/name_f] is more popular.
[name_u]Evelyn[/name_u]
[name_f]Olivia[/name_f]
[name_f]Ella[/name_f] - mostly as a nickname though
[name_f]Angelina[/name_f]/[name_f]Angelica[/name_f]/[name_f]Angela[/name_f]/any [name_u]Angel[/name_u] variants
[name_f]Theresia[/name_f]
[name_f]Gabriela[/name_f]
[name_f]Caroline[/name_f]
[name_f]Veronica[/name_f]
thank you! Interesting to see the similarities/differences as I’m sure we don’t live in the same area 