Popular names Generation Alpha believe are “for old people”
<p>Today's youth have a very different idea of what constitutes an "old person" name, and one mum was left flabbergasted after a conversation she had with her six-year-old daughter about her classmates’ names.</p>
<p>“You know what I find wild? I have an eight-year-old and a six-year-old, and the names of their friends, I can’t even pronounce some of them,” Australian entrepreneur and mum-of-two Steph Pase said in a now viral TikTok. </p>
<p>“I asked her, so do you have anyone in your year called Sarah, Alex, Jack or Daniel?</p>
<p>“She laughed and said ‘they’re old people names!’.”</p>
<p>She then probed her daughter with a few other common names saying: “I asked, what about Steph … Michelle … she’s like no,” she laughed.</p>
<p>“It just makes me realise, that we are that generation … our parents’ generation. Names like Helen, Karen or Joanna … now we’re that generation.</p>
<p>“We have the old people names.”</p>
<p>She captioned her video with the text "Millennial names are officially old" and many of her followers agreed with the upsetting revelation. </p>
<p>“In my classes we have Vision, Stoney, Diesel, Hennesy, Blaze, Cruze, Kingdom, Ace, Boss, Oasis, Mercedes, Destiny,” one shared.</p>
<p>“Luna, Harper & Arlo are the new Ashley, Jessica & Stephanie,” another said.</p>
<p>“The names in my kids classes are Lamb, Honey, Hazard, Blu, Bambi,” another added. </p>
<p>“My six year old has a girl in his class named ‘Summah’ and another called ‘Phox’ because Fox was too mainstream,” a fourth wrote. </p>
<p>“My daughter has a Moses, Twayla, Lorde it’s wild …” a fifth commented. </p>
<p>Baby name expert and CEO of Fifth Dimension Consulting Lyndall Spooner told <em>news.com.au</em> that there are a few reasons why there's been a shift in children's names over the years, including popularity, less pressure to follow traditional family names, and a trend towards more gender-neutral names. </p>
<p>“Parents want their children to be unique and so they use nouns or verbs as names, or character names from books, TV shows, movies, shopping chains or cars," she said. </p>
<p>And while the "millennial names" are not as common, "they are not extinct". </p>
<p>“We will continue to see changes in baby names and the ‘recycling’ of older names that become popular again,” she told the publication. </p>
<p><em>Images: TikTok</em></p>
