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in reply to a message by Rachel Shaina
That really surprises me, because I always think of Madison and Chloe (along with Ashley, etc.) as names from my generation and just after (late 80s and 90s). I grew up with several. Would have figured they’d be falling out of the top 100 by now.
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Madison didn't get really popular until the mid-90s. I think I'm younger than you (I think you said you were in your early 30s?) and I don't know any Madisons my age, though I knew of some at my school a few years younger than me. I knew one Chloe, but it didn't get really popular until even later than Madison (early 2000s). [of course location probably plays in-- my area is a lot of conservative namers; I could definitely see the community not touching Madison until it made the top 100].
Also I think sometimes we on the board forget that people who like a name can't always use it as soon as they start liking it (while it's at it's trendiest/most popular). Totally possible that someone fell in love with 'Madison' or 'Chloe' in high school when they first heard it and had to carry it around for 10+ years before they had a child to bestow it on. The board sometimes acts like names trends should be coming and going just like that, but there's a reason that a lot of trends span a decade or more. And then of course there's people who manage to give the name to a child before it gets very popular.
(And some people are born in the wrong decade entirely-- I went to high school with a girl who spoke very passionately about how much she loved the name Jennifer and how she was definitely going to name her daughter that. This was in 2009.)
Also I think sometimes we on the board forget that people who like a name can't always use it as soon as they start liking it (while it's at it's trendiest/most popular). Totally possible that someone fell in love with 'Madison' or 'Chloe' in high school when they first heard it and had to carry it around for 10+ years before they had a child to bestow it on. The board sometimes acts like names trends should be coming and going just like that, but there's a reason that a lot of trends span a decade or more. And then of course there's people who manage to give the name to a child before it gets very popular.
(And some people are born in the wrong decade entirely-- I went to high school with a girl who spoke very passionately about how much she loved the name Jennifer and how she was definitely going to name her daughter that. This was in 2009.)
This message was edited 4/26/2018, 10:21 AM
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I read a name book once whose author attributed the 1970s rise of Jason, Jeremy, and Joshua to the TV show "Here Come the Brides", which aired from 1968 -1970, and which featured characters of those names. The author thought that young girls watching the show at that time stored the names for use when they later became mothers in the 1970s.
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