1983, let talks about popular names.

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crapbear83@reddit (OP)

I went to school with a Geoff. He was the cutest boy in 3rd grade.....just saying

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Geoff_GodOfBiscuits@reddit

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/exV5izaSNSs

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SimplyTheApnea@reddit

Worked at Blockbuster when this guy got popular, MONTHS of Jeff fafa

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GingerLawyerGirl@reddit

I'm a Kristen. There were a ton of us. I blame the show Dallas. Made the name insanely popular in the early '80s.

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sitnquiet@reddit

Yep. I was a Christopher. Between the Chrisses, Christians, Christines, Kristens, Crystals and all the rest, we were half the class.

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I knew a “Chris” in college. I called him Christopher once and he scolded me. He said his parents named him “Chris”. The one time I met his mom I asked her and she confirmed he was “Chris” on his birth certificate. I thought that was kinda not unique but unique, if that makes sense.

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GristleMcThornbody1@reddit

I met a guy named Jimmy one time. Always figured it was James, but nope, it was Jimmy.

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Daphne-odora@reddit

We had 2 Christy’s in my grade and a Kristy

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cashews_clay15@reddit

My sister was Christie.

My son asked if it was short for anything, like Christina. Nope, just Christie.

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

Plus Kristen and Christina spelled every way you can imagine.

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frawgster@reddit

I was like 20 when I first met a Kristen. I was like 10 when I first met a KIRsten (Keer-sten). So for all my teenage years I thought Kirsten was Kristen. Basically I didn’t fully realize that Kristen was a name because any time I heard someone say Kristen I assumed they were saying Kirsten wrong.

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Insomniac_80@reddit

Daniel, Matthew, Michael, and Jonathan all were known by their last initial. For girls it was Jennifer, Allison and Lauren

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FiveCrappedPee@reddit

I'm Brian and I feel like my name has just been baseline average, which is great with me. We stay low key.

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barrymulvihill@reddit

Im Bryan with a y

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Big_Somewhere9230@reddit

I’m a Jeff. I knew two other Jeffs in middle school. The math teacher sat us all at the same table and we got to answer as a committee.

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-okily-dokily-@reddit

Why do I love this so much 😂

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SplakyD@reddit

Are there any Davids anymore?

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Sofagirrl79@reddit

My dad, brother,ex husband and a ex boyfriend are all named David

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bangobot46@reddit

Any time someone tells me their name is Sara without an h, I know they are an xennial. While Sarah with an h could be anytime, Sara no h is almost always 79-83.

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sator-2D-rotas@reddit

My mother was a huge Dallas fan. Huge. She wanted to name me so I’d have the initials JR. And my father’s name starts with an R. Thankfully he said no. Big NO.

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shortycall911@reddit

1983 - Laura/Lauren and Ryan/Brian. Never had a class K-12 without at least one

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IchibanBlue@reddit

Well I feel called out. 1983 Megan here.

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Interesting_Tea_6734@reddit

Jennifer Jenny Jen Jenni Jennie Jenifer Jenn Jeni

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IndicationNo7551@reddit

Forgot Jenna

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9fingerjeff@reddit

That’s my sister

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lilianril@reddit

I play a sport where age protected divisions start at 40. Last year there was a tournament where in the 40-50 women's division 6/8 were named some variation of Jennifer.

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cashews_clay15@reddit

No one else had my name but I was named after a song from the 70’s.

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After_Preference_885@reddit

Same but mine was inspired by and not exactly from a song

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ButterscotchAware402@reddit

Justine. I've only met 2 other Justines. So many Justins though. If I were a boy, I'd have been Matthew.

Just throwing this in for good measure...

Kids in the Hall - The Daves I Know (1989)

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Sofagirrl79@reddit

My dad,brother, ex husband and ex boyfriend are all Dave's lol.

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Omnivek@reddit

How about we name 12 million kids Nicole?

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Sofagirrl79@reddit

Or Sara, Sarahs.I went to school with so many girls named that

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AlissonHarlan@reddit

i'm in europa, but we had a lot of christophe, daniel, kevin, christian, and caroline

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manicpixiepuke@reddit

Matthew Christopher Johnathan Jennifer Kristin Michelle Jessica

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mr_Papini@reddit

I was named Jessica, my brother's a Matthew. His first wife is a Jessica and she has a brother named Matthew.

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D-Skel@reddit

Matthew, for sure. I have five friends named Matt who were born in the 80s.

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Entangled-again@reddit

First kiss was a Matt. College boyfriend: Matt. Husband: Matt. I also dated some women, none of whom were named Matt.

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SneakerTreater@reddit

The amount of Matthews, Marks, Lukes, & Johns that emerged from Catholic schools...

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Winter_Dimension8107@reddit

Ashley

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Debtastical@reddit

It’s my middle name. My mom named her after her best friend. Deborah… that’s right- everyone’s moms name. In a graduating class of 450 people, I was the only Deborah. “My mom’s name is Debbie”. Cool.

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Which_Celebration757@reddit

My Aunt Debbie was the coolest one in the family.

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crapbear83@reddit (OP)

We need to have a discussion about you mental health. You good?

Ashleys end up being the "crazy girls" in my experience

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sator-2D-rotas@reddit

From the baby name I found, this was an option if I was a girl per my mom.

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-SandorClegane-@reddit

That's my sister, born in....eighty fuckin three, wouldn't you know.

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trichotomy00@reddit

Ashley K, Ashley M, or Ashley from band?

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Okra-Tomatoes@reddit

We had Ashleys in every class.

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FortunateSon77@reddit

Stefan (steh-FAN). You'd think I was the only one anywhere ever.

There were a lot of Dale, Sean, and Chris, of course. Only ever saw 1 Tanis or Brynn. Haven't heard em since.

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Queen_Of_InnisLear@reddit

It's one of the things I thank my parents for- they gave an uncommon (but normal) name. I was always the only one in the entire school, in every school I was in, including university. I have met 2 in person and they were both older than me.

But my classes were full of Rob, Megan, Dan, Jon/John, Jessica. We had three Mirandas in my grade which seems like an anomaly.

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moving2mars@reddit

This is what we did with our kids, uncommon but normal (and spelled right) names, coming from two very 80s named parents. I think they’ve each met \~2 peers with their names their whole lives.

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JellyfishHead2831@reddit

Jennifer, Ashley, Amanda, Crystal, Lindsey, Samantha

Chris, Matt, Josh, Ryan, Cody, Brian, Jeff, Mark

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Sofagirrl79@reddit

My name is Sabrina,only knew a few in my school years then it got sorta popular in the late 90s cause of that show.My parents could have done worse when they picked my name

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Fiveminutes26@reddit

I’m a Lesley. Mom named me after Lesley Ann Warren (take a guess at my middle name!) I very rarely, even now find another Lesley and if I do, it’s always Leslie and my co-workers always spell my name wrong, even though it’s in my email and my email signature lol

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jsaye01@reddit

Jason

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ulfniu@reddit

Cody

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RedditGotSoulDoubt@reddit

Mike. I was once driving a car full of dudes and the other four were named Mike. Resulted in everyone requiring a fun nickname.

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Mysterious-Name-6016@reddit

Steve

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Mysterious-Name-6016@reddit

Jessica, Rachel, Mathew, Michael, Daniel

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Tinernug@reddit

Jenny

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_gonesurfing_@reddit

I got your number 867-

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trippingbilly0304@reddit

5 3 0 9yyiiiiine

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Face88888888@reddit

From the block?

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GuliblGuy@reddit

r/Justin

There are dozens of us!

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80s_angel@reddit

I went to school with so many Jennifer’s and Jessica’s.

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_gonesurfing_@reddit

https://youtu.be/1nN_5kkYR6k

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silver_tongued_devil@reddit

I grew up in the late class with a bunch of 83-ers. Brandon and Sarahs everywhere the eye could see.

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NoContextCarl@reddit

Justin Time? Justin Case? Justin Sane? Justin Competent?

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Dare2BeU420@reddit

'82 baby... I'm an Erica

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eyelinerqueen83@reddit

Emily. The number one girls name for many years.

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PengwinPears@reddit

I work at a school and there's like 5 Emilys on staff at any given time. One will leave and a new one replaces her.

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waspclothes@reddit

I'm always amazed at how few Emilys I run into or that I wasn't Emily "middle initial" in school.

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someoneelse0826@reddit

Are you ‘82?

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AccountantChoice1254@reddit

Lots of Heathers

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Faultylogic83@reddit

I think I graduated with at least six other Justins...

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loganrunjack@reddit

Lots of Chris' Mikes, Shawns, Amandas

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SplakyD@reddit

Friday night threads are the best on this sub.

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truckthecat@reddit

Sigh. Jessica.

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akobie@reddit

Ashley, Amber, Lisa, Amy, Jennifer, Matt

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trashpanda6798@reddit

I’ll be honest, I’m kind of a Dick.

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someoneelse0826@reddit

Our friend was Rich (little Dick) and his dad was Richard (big Dick)

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crapbear83@reddit (OP)

Hi Richard it's nice to meet you

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boredlady819@reddit

Katie

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katie_cat_eyes@reddit

Yep…! In my small graduating class, there was only one Jessica, two Jens, but three Katies. A few other miscellaneous Catherines or Kaitlins that went by other nicknames.

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Jupitersd2017@reddit

That’s wild, I didn’t know a single Katie growing up

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flojopickles@reddit

My brother dated 3 different Katie’s and married one of them.

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Switchback4@reddit

Nice try cop.

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VVrayth@reddit

Our childhoods were a sea of Jennifers and Jessicas.

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

The J-e-double consonant names 😂 I know Jessicas who were always mistakenly called Jennifer and Jennifers called Jessica. Every now and then there was a Jackie to mix things up.

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TalkSin_M@reddit

Ones I'm not seeing mentioned so much are Amber, Rachel, Sara, Dave, Elijah, Luke.

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Phoenyxoldgoat@reddit

Fall of 1983. My name is Caryn. The internet’s favorite insult, with a youneek spelling, and I was born in a sea of Jessicas, Heathers, and Melissas. All my friends’ moms were named Karen.

I’m still salty about all this.

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JollyJeanGiant83@reddit

Katie

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saltnshadow@reddit

My name is Amy, but to be fair, my mom wanted ro name me Amelia, but shortened it to Amy because my dad couldn't spell it. Joke's on me, though - they divorced and he became non-existant in my life when I was 4.

Might go get my name changed back to the original idea.

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Particular-Crew5978@reddit

Laura and Kristen

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

Lauras, Laurens, and Loris 😂

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Strassboss@reddit

Katie, Ashley, Lauren, Rachel, Jessica, Amy for girls- boys so many Jasons! And Josh, Andy, Justin

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winksoutloud@reddit

There were also Johns, Jons, Jonathans, and Johnnys

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

This reminded me how many Amandas there were too.

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Responsible_Park3317@reddit

SO MANY JASONS! Like holy shit. 🤣

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26isfordicks@reddit

Kelly, Stephanie, Nicole, Tiffany, Sarah, Amanda & Kristen too — I feel like every one in my elementary school was named only ten names (I have a “weird” name and I was always jealous lmao)

And Michael, Matthew, Brian, David & Chris for boys

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allysung83@reddit

Sarah, Michelle, Jessica, Jennifer, Stephanie, Ashley, Amanda, Erin, Jason, Matt, Brian, Joe/Joey, Josh, Jesse, Mike

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Mother_of_Kiddens@reddit

In my classes I always had multiple Crystals and Jasons. One class had 4 Crystals and 3 Jasons!!!

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Spread_Kindness_@reddit

1981 and my class was FULL of Jennifers and Stephanies, there weren’t any boy names that were as prevalent/popular as those two

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

Stephanie, Tiffany, Brittany, Lindsey, Brandy. They were all way cooler than me too 😂

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RepresentativeNo2187@reddit

Not even Matt, Chris, or Ryan?!

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Spread_Kindness_@reddit

There were 2-3 Matt, 3 Chris, 1 Ryan that I remember lol

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ericwbolin@reddit

I'm, uh, one of those you listed.

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Easternshoremouth@reddit

We had three Jonathans and three Sarahs in my seventh grade class

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ManbadFerrara@reddit

Jonathons were absolutely all over the goddamn place.

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ghoulthebraineater@reddit

None of those for me. I didn't meet someone with the same name until high school. Only met 3 other people total with the same name.

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Maebnus@reddit

Same! First two in high school, though one used the other pronunciation, and the third about 20 years later.

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davesnotonreddit@reddit

Adam, Evan, Josh, Nate, Jenny, Kristen, Laura

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pnw_rider@reddit

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No-Pudding8127@reddit

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malledtodeath@reddit

I moved around a lot, and one school was filled with primarily Sara(h) and Mike, another was universally, unequivocally Aaron/Erin I swear the entire school was one.

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Correct_Charge7953@reddit

1983 Jacob

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bekarene1@reddit

Rebekah. I answer to Rebecca or Rachel, but I dropped Becky after middle school.

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SimpleVegetable5715@reddit

Jennifer and Matthew also.

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JessicaSin666@reddit

Im jessica. I used to be named Jason. LOL. I wanted a dated name.

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zuklei@reddit

My name seemed to be very popular for a very short amount of time. 1-2 other ones always in my class. Now never meet anyone with my name.

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enters_and_leaves@reddit

Monica, Erica, Rita, Tina, Sandra, Mary, Jessica…

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Basic-Biscotti-2375@reddit

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RepresentativeNo2187@reddit

One that never cracked the top 500 names, and only made the top 1000 a few times in the 60s/70s.

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Redwingstarfish@reddit

My two BILs are Michael. My sisters made a decision; now they're Mike and Michael lol

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BaD-princess5150@reddit

Cara with a C!

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literanch@reddit

Of the names you mentioned, I dated 2 of them and my siblings are 2 of them.

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BalrogRuthenburg11@reddit

Mike, Matt, John, Ryan, Katherine/Katie, Stephanie, Lauren

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RaulaLive@reddit

Laura, Lori, Lauren,a Laurel here and there

Sean, Shawn, Shaun even a few times

Lindsay, Lyndsey, Lindsey (but I might have a chip on my shoulder here lol my husband dated three of these in a row before me and I have a wayyy different name)

Jeff and Geoff!!!

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crapbear83@reddit (OP)

Skyler? Damn just one or multiple? 1983 ...not 2003?

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Metamorphica_0226@reddit

1982, but my brothers little league team had 3 Nathan’s a Jonathan, and a Nathaniel