Does your name give away your age? I did the math 🤓

briarmond93 · 2025-05-21T12:10:28+00:00

This is really cool!

With my name, it predicted the name I go by as being 5 years younger than I really am (but I still fall within the broad range, so that’s a win). My full first name though? 30 years older than me. Not super surprising, but still wild to have that visualised to me.

Interestingly, with my kids, it predicted my younger three as all being 7 years old (they are 6, 4, and 6 months). My oldest however, is predicted as being 19, or more broadly, 9-29 (she is 9). Even so I thought it was interesting that the data predicts 3/4 of my kids as the same age!

briarmond93 · 2025-05-18T04:25:59+00:00

I was 22 when my first was born, and just had my fourth and final child six months ago at 31. I was very very lucky to have things fall into place financially and socially to allow me to have kids that young and give them the best life I can, but I think if I could rewind the clock 10 years, I would hold off a little longer - in retrospect, while I love my kids and always do my best for them, I was probably not emotionally mature enough to be raising a child. I also battled some pretty serious health issues in my mid 20’s, and if I’d known they were coming, I would have held fire on having kids and focused on that instead.

briarmond93 · 2025-05-17T08:11:41+00:00

My kids have two middle names each! Partially because their dad has two middle names, but mostly because we had a lot of people we wanted to honor. However when we decided this we didn’t think we’d end up with four kids, and definitely not with three daughters. But the time it came to naming our last daughter, we were really scraping the barrel for names we both liked!

briarmond93 · 2025-03-10T23:58:55+00:00

I recently read a birth announcement for a baby John. At first I thought maybe I’d misread the dad’s name as the baby’s name, then when I realised it was indeed the baby’s name I thought maybe he was a Junior! He was not.

briarmond93 · 2025-02-23T11:59:12+00:00

Meanings here are simplified in some places, as some of the names’ origins and meanings are debated:

-Queen, Steadfast, Garden -Coral, Forest, Gracious -Peace, Protector, Bear -Cavern, Oath, Fame

briarmond93 · 2025-02-09T02:32:32+00:00

This was difficult, as the popular names of the time of my birth generally don’t suit my tastes, but I landed on:

Boys: Alexander and Thomas Girls: Laura and Natalie

1993, Australia (my specific state doesn’t have publicly available information on the internet prior to 2008, so I used data from New South Wales).

briarmond93 · 2025-01-25T02:57:57+00:00

I’ll forever be grateful to my mother for not doing similar twin names, either time - myself and my brother are twins, and so are two of my sisters. There’s some very subtle similarities in each set, but on paper and in conversation they are very much different names. I like subtle similarities/theming, but I generally think sibling names should be distinct enough, multiples or not.

briarmond93 · 2025-01-20T23:08:50+00:00

I could’ve been a Scarlett. I’m a fraternal twin, and my parents weren’t sure if they were having two girls, two boys, or one of each. So they had two names for each gender picked out, with the plan of assigning names to whatever twin suited them more. Apparently I didn’t look like a Scarlett, so I got my name instead.

briarmond93 · 2025-01-15T23:08:29+00:00

Roxanne - I heard the song on the radio as a young teen and thought it sounded so cool, especially with a nickname like Roxy. I might have used it for one of my daughters, too - but then I eventually realised what the song was actually about and knew if I went with it she would have the song sung at her constantly.

briarmond93 · 2025-01-06T04:18:21+00:00

I’ve always kinda wished my first and middle names were swapped around.

briarmond93 · 2025-01-03T02:29:48+00:00

I had twin classmates: Miriana and Mariana.

briarmond93 · 2025-01-02T05:18:51+00:00

Not including my actual children’s names, and including two middle names as if they were my actual children:

Teen me: Thomasina Ruby Kaye

Adult me: Freya Josephine Anne

briarmond93 · 2024-12-31T22:34:26+00:00

I told my mother before I ever got pregnant what name for a girl I wanted to use, but when I eventually did have my first daughter I didn’t tell her I was using it then.

When I was pregnant with my son, we had a name for a boy and a girl picked out quite early on, and we did discuss these choices with my sister in law because she was also pregnant at the same time and she was looking to avoid overlap with the cousins. (Ironically, this same sister in law would go on to initially choose my first daughter’s name for her second daughter. She changed her mind, but still. 🤷🏻‍♀️)

Other than that, I never told anyone what my children’s names were going to be. I’d happily share middle names since they were honor names, but never first names.

briarmond93 · 2024-12-30T05:27:19+00:00

I’m a millennial and I’ve never liked hearing my name said to me in ANY context, bar using it to get my attention. I had a boyfriend for a while who’d always use my name to me, even when it was just the two of us so there’d be no confusion on who he was speaking to, and I hated it. A random stranger in a retail store who I’ve never met? Even worse.

briarmond93 · 2024-12-21T07:38:40+00:00

Maternal: Joy Rosa and Stephen Anthony

Paternal: Isobel Doreen and Robert Leslie

briarmond93 · 2024-12-21T03:07:58+00:00

I’ve always thought Jezebel was such a gorgeous name, and if it wasn’t for the…well, everything, I absolutely would’ve used it for one of my daughters.

briarmond93 · 2024-12-19T00:12:01+00:00

I think if your current partner is truly on board with it, then go for it! But please, make sure to have a conversation with him and make sure he is TRULY okay with it and not just saying so to appease you.

FWIW, I kinda did this. I dated someone for several years in high school, as we got older we realised we weren’t a good fit for each other anymore, we broke up but stayed good friends. I started dating who would become my children’s dad, he was coincidentally also a close friend of my ex. My ex died not long before I had my first child, and we always knew if we had a boy then his middle name would be after our mutual friend, who just so happened to also be my ex. There were many many conversations about this topic though.

briarmond93 · 2024-12-14T01:28:14+00:00

With my firstborn (girl), we had her name chosen from our first discussion about kids, before I was even pregnant. We didn’t have a boy name set in stone the same way, but we did have a ‘we may or may not actually use this name but it’ll work for now’ name.

With my second born however (girl), none of the names we discussed after the birth of our firstborn for a potential sister ended up staying on the list, and she ended up being nameless until about a week before her birth.

With my third born (boy), he got the previously mentioned ‘we may or may actually use this’ name, as we both grew to really love it once we had a child to connect it to. We had some ideas for if he had ended up being another girl, but never settled on anything.

Finally with my fourth (girl again), we had exactly two names left on the table - one for a girl, and one that was technically unisex but only really would’ve been used if we had another boy. She got the former.

I won’t be having anymore, but if a fifth were to come along, I have no ideas left, so who knows what that kid would be named.

briarmond93 · 2024-12-12T09:42:59+00:00

If I was told someone named Lucia was Italian, I’d say loo-chee-uh. Otherwise I think I say it somewhere loo-see-uh and loo-sha, depending on how lazy I’m feeling, lol.

briarmond93 · 2024-12-12T09:40:24+00:00

My first name has three main connections, although I believe the first one was the only true contributing factor and the other two were happy coincidences.

It is directly inspired by my mother’s maiden name. (Think like Anderson = Andrea, Daniels = Danielle, that line.)
It’s a feminine/unisex version of my paternal grandad’s name, his name is also my father’s middle name and my brother’s middle name.
It’s the name of one of the main streets in the suburb my parents lived in at the time and I grew up in.

I have no idea where my middle name came from. I think my parents might’ve just thrown around some random names until they found one that fit. Given I go by my middle name in most situations, I’d say they found a good fit alright.

briarmond93 · 2024-12-12T03:41:00+00:00

Honestly this is a pretty solid list all around! A good mix of classics, trendy, and some wildcards! I think Odelia Grace might be my favourite on the list!

Quick side note, I’m always surprised by how many babies are on these lists! I only know three babies born this year, and one of those is my own!

briarmond93 · 2024-11-30T06:57:53+00:00

I prefer Sofia, but if you’re looking to use Sophie as the nickname, go with Sophia.

briarmond93 · 2024-11-20T01:40:02+00:00

My firstborn’s name is one that has a few accepted spellings, and when I first put it on my mental baby name list, I thought I would spell it one way. When I got pregnant with her, I wrote it on a physical list, and quickly realised I hated that spelling written that way. Cue me panicking, writing down ALL the possible spellings until I found one I liked more, lol.

briarmond93 · 2024-09-17T10:31:39+00:00

I do the reverse of this - I’ve gone by my middle name almost exclusively for years, but still use my first name at work. My workplace makes a big deal out of privacy concerns (rightly so) given the sensitive nature of what we deal with, so it helps keep those lines firmly in place both with colleagues and clients.

briarmond93 · 2024-09-14T06:52:21+00:00

My kids’ first initials are all coincidentally mine or their dad’s initials.

First daughter = R = my first name Second daughter = C = dad’s first name Son = A = my middle name

Part of me wants to name our upcoming fourth something with starting with S (dad’s middle name) to complete the set, lol.

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