first names you strongly if wrongly associate with way younger than you (or way older) (or even way the same)

in my mind ppl called matt are always striplings

ditto mark (even tho i am a mark and i am no a stripling)

I work with a 55-year-old man named "Kyle".

i definitely know who the kids are around here just by hearing a name: dylan, evan, noah, leaf, river, cedar, maple, elm, dogwood, grade a maple syrup, cage-free, aspen, creek, eddy, fjord, etc.

This doesn't happen in all countries tho does it? In Poland, for example, a Łukasz or a Witold is just as likely to be 8 as 80.

Jordans are always youngsters. *Gordons* however are always old.

All Jermaines are young and play football.

Female names are always a tough call - don't they have more of a tendency to come back? I am pretty much used to the fact that Daisys (not Daisies, although it felt wrong typing it) can be old or young.

george is an old man name to me

every single Jayden is younger than me.

Oscar, Dylan, Olivia, Poppy. And yeah, the Jayden/Kayden lot, though maybe not super young anymore?

This doesn't happen in all countries tho does it? In Poland, for example, a Łukasz or a Witold is just as likely to be 8 as 80.

I suspect that most countries have some naming trends, and some names that stick around (my name, for example, could be an old or a young person in the UK, it's been pretty durable in popularity). And the names I chose could theoretically be much older people, but if I heard someone say the name I'd assume it was some kid.

People with surnames as first names are younger than me (Cooper, Taylor, Riley etc)

I guess I'm situating the names in context, though, and that's not entirely what the question is asking. Sorry mark.

xp

haven't met a woman younger than 50 named barbara

barbara is a great name

Taylor, Kayla, Haley

I have a coworker who is my age (mid 30s) named Phyllis!

she has to be the only Phyllis I've met under the age of 50

I think I've only ever met one Dennis my age, really associate it with people who are 50+

Ryder

Anyone under the age of 80 named Mildred or Bertha?

People with surnames as first names are younger than me (Cooper, Taylor, Riley etc)

Surnames as given names was a Scottish tradition that was taken to the US and has only recently become common in England. Pretty sure it's not the only thing of Scottish origin that came to England via the US rather than taking the more obvious route. Hallowe'en maybe?

There was a brief time period where Stacy/Stacey/Staci was popular and it seems odd when I meet someone not in that age range

my sister is one, although she doesn't really seem like that name fits imo? not sure what my parents were thinking. if I were born a girl, I'd be an emily which is cool

i was going to be tabitha, which is a name i like

we could almost do a thread on names in primarily english-speaking countries that are popular in one but never crossed over

there's someone at work named Gemma and my fellow americans have no idea how to pronounce that name! they try saying it with a hard 'g'

Surnames as given names was a Scottish tradition that was taken to the US and has only recently become common in England. Pretty sure it's not the only thing of Scottish origin that came to England via the US rather than taking the more obvious route. Hallowe'en maybe?

Not a tradition I'm familiar with, though that might be because it seems very middle class and Presbyterian. There is that Billy Connolly routine about the presentation of Scottish traditional music on Scottish television in the 50s and 60s and how it always seemed to involve strange men with surnames for first names: Crawford McDougall, Farquhar Henderson, Finlay Macdonald (I made those up btw).

my kids have our family names as middle names. Rufus Saxton and Cyrus Stiles. it classes up the joint.

I assume anyone named Joyce to be at least 20 years my senior

lots of funny twitter use of "Carol" as old office persona lady

haven't met a woman younger than 50 named barbara

I have

https://i.imgur.com/nqV3BzF.jpg

Who is this person?

Barbara Bush (named after her grandmother.)

there's someone at work named Gemma and my fellow americans have no idea how to pronounce that name! they try saying it with a hard 'g'

― mh, Wednesday, November 29, 2017 8:38 AM (three hours ago)

They haven't watched Sons of Anarchy?

I generally assume guys named Nathan are about my age.

Or know what a "gem" is?

xp

I know a mid-30s Doris who wears it well.

was she named after the band?

Not sure but when she was just a little girl she asked her mother "what will I be?"...