Hello Berries 
What era is your name from?
If your comfortable, is your name common among your peers?
How has your name and the era its from impacted your taste in names?
Thanks!
-bee 
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my birth name was made up and not really from any era, and I always disliked it/lacked a connection to it. it also sounded similar to a familiar name and people always misspelled it until I didnāt bother correcting. I think it mightāve had some influence on how I donāt like modern invented names, but I think I was always bound to like older names.
my chosen name was most popular in 1908 (topping out at 148) so I guess it could be a 1900s name? I havenāt met anyone else my age with my name, but I donāt necessarily find it to be too āoldā for me. I do like older familiar names a lot! so I do think a good bit of my style is represented in that.
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I have an āolderā name too, and people seem to really like it! I think I am open to names from any era but I like when they connect to something! Thanks for the response 
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[name_f]My[/name_f] name peaked in the 60s and 70s, but was still in the top 100 when I was born in the 90s. It does have a slightly āolder-than-meā ring to it, but not especially so. I occasionally meet someone my age with my name, but not too often.
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[name_f]My[/name_f] name was very trendy around the time I was born and only grew in popularity after that, and I definitely think that impacted my taste in names, or at least my wariness around trendy names. I never loved my name to begin with, but growing up I always hated that people could basically tell how old I was just based off my name and how whenever I introduced myself to someone else my age there was about a 50/50 chance theyād immediately respond āoh thereās a girl in my class named Avery!ā. Interestingly, when they chose my name my parents had NO CLUE that it was trending and had never even heard of it before, having encountered it somewhere else that had had zero to do with its trendiness at the time, and thought they were giving me a really unique name, so of course thatās a pretty big fear of mine for if I have kids.
I was actually pondering it recently, and I think that if I didnāt have a bunch of memories of always disliking my name, and particularly it werenāt as popular, I might actually really like it, though itās hard to say. But I do think trendiness definitely has played a huge role in my opinion.
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[name_f]My[/name_f] name is a pretty vintage-style name, but I havenāt met many my age with my name, mostly because it was āout of seasonā in the 90ās. I get a lot of really older people telling me they used to know people with my name, and I hear a lot of kids under 10 with my name.
[name_f]My[/name_f] mom chose what she thought was an alternate spelling, but what really was a āwrongā spelling haha, which makes it feel not vintage to me haha. I havenāt ever loved my name, and I wonder if I had the proper spelling, if I would like it more or less. I do like vintage names now, but who knows if my name is one Iād like because Iām not sure I like the sound of the name regardless. I definitely prefer the standard spelling of a name, but I might have felt that way regardless of how my name was spelt because I would always forget that I had a unique spelling.
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[name_f]My[/name_f] name is pretty classic. And tbh I never really thought about liking/disliking my own name. It was most popular around/in the decade I was born but has charted for at least 100 years, and was a well known name before then.
As for its influence on my taste in names. I do think it made me want something more unfamiliar but also something that had meaning. As my siblings names had meaning to my parents where as mine was just a name they liked. Which wasnt bad but made me want my girls names to have more meaning beyond āI just liked itā
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[name_f]My[/name_f] name has big 80-90s vibes according to everyone else. I get it, it was trending for my generation, but since I didnāt meet another [name_f]Stephanie[/name_f] until I was 11 I thought it was this rare magical princess name for years and years. It means ācrownā, which little me found enchanting. Then I went to high school and had five others with the same name in my cohort 
which I was so upset about.
I think having my name has been a huge influence on my name taste as well as influencing me to become a name nerd in the first place ~ if Iād have looked up the meaning of my name as a child and found it was something more workaday Iām not sure it would have sparked the same interest in etymology I have now. Also, I absolutely love most Greek names which is probably influenced by having one!
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[name_f]My[/name_f] birth nameā¦ I think silent gen. Very old. Never meet people with it. Iāve always hated it; never gets spelled/pronounced right, and (unpopular opinion) I think itās kind of bland
[name_f]My[/name_f] chosen name (Morgan) is timeless.
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[name_f]My[/name_f] name (Grace) first became popular in the 17th century with the Puritans, remained popular in the 19th century, fell out of style a little for a while then came back into popularity the year after I was born 
[name_f]My[/name_f] name is popular amongst peers. Thereās often another one my age around, but lots of younger Graces.
I think I tend to stray away from super popular names like my own.
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This form of my name has been around since the [name_u]New[/name_u] Testament was written in Koine Greek. Itās veeeeeeery common. Probably the most common feminine name in the world. And I know heaps. I do like classic names, but Iām not really fond of common ones.
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Since pre koine Ancient Greece, probably.
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Good day! Thank you for the information.
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i always find things like this so interesting to answer as it really varies country to country for me!
in australia (where iām from), gemma had roughly twin peaks in the late 80s-early 90s, and early-mid 2000s, while jemma had a brief moment on the charts in the early 2000s.
in the uk, both gemma and jemma peaked in that same 80s/90s period before dropping off the charts approaching 2010, while in the us this is when both just began to rank - and while jemma has recently dropped off just a bit, gemma still appears to be on an upward trajectory.
this absolutely checks out for me in real life - iāve met a few gemmas in their 30s, heard of a jemma in her late 20s and met a few teenage gemmas but iād say none younger than about 13, which is scarily reflective of the popularity data.
i donāt think the era my name is from has impacted my taste in names too much - itās more the spelling for me, although the fact that the more common spelling peaked around the same time has probably contributed to some of my frustration around this.
this is kind of reflective of my own experience actually! i never met a gemma and loved that (and still havenāt actually met a jemma, but thatās besides the point) until high school, when there were more in my relatively small school than girls named isabella, emily, chloe or mia - four of the top five names in my birth year 
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Mine was popular from ~1890 to ~1920, and itās recently (~2019) risen back to that level of popularity.
I absolutely adore vintage and vivacious names like mine! Iām not sure the style of my name impacted my own name tastes (I think my taste in books, music, media has had more of an impact), but it definitely happens that I enjoy a lot of names that were popular when mine initials was. And, I adore my own name!
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[name_f]My[/name_f] name (spelt the way it is) doesnāt really have an era from my research. Itās very very uncommon where I live so Iām not surprised.
It was not a common name at all among my peers.
I definitely think my name has influenced my taste in names. [name_f]My[/name_f] name is traditionally a boy name, and growing up I was the biggest girly girl. I felt like my name didnāt suit me. [name_f]My[/name_f] sister had a nickname name, very girly, and I was always envious. I think due to that I prefer girly, sweet nickname names for my girls.
Additionally my name was kinda difficult for people to pronounce and spell. I think thatās why I prefer easy names to spell.
However I think now Iām older I do like my name, and I do like how itās unique. So I tend to lean towards more unique names now.
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to be honest, i donāt know 
my legal name is vasilia. itās a feminization of vasileios//vasilis/basil which has been in use since ancient greek times, but i canāt find any info on when the feminization started being used! itās a very rare name and so itās not associated with any time period, so i wouldnāt say it has affected my taste in names
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mine doesnāt seem to have one in terms of people iāve met. i have met one my age and one who was in her 20s or 30s (she was from i think czechia so thatās different), and my sister also knows one whoās around 12ish (??). iāve gotten a surprising amount of "thatās my (friendās) grandmaās (middle) name!!"s, it hasnāt ranked in the us since '73, and it peaked in 1894 at 435. so i guess itās an 1890s name??
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Itās a 1950s-1980s name. I didnāt know anyone with my name till I was 11. I like the look of my name - itās tailored - but itās not user friendly - no good nicknames, people mishear it as either a boysā name or a string of (to me) pretty unappealing names. In terms of influences, I used to love hyper frilly names but I think Iām a tailored gal at heart because of my name. I also make sure names have a good nickname option. Finally, the meaning itself has definitely shaped my sled-identity and choices - so I therefore avoid names with negative or potentially negative meanings.
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my name is from basically every era. itās popular right now, and it was popular 100 years ago. so yeah, pretty common among my peers.
i think it has impacted my taste in names, actually, because now iām very cautious about giving my future kids ultra common names.
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