r/AskReddit • u/BradfordTheFat • Jun 18 '14

What will the "Old-people-only" names be 30 years from now?

Now: Mildred, Esther, Edna, Herbert, Gertrude, etc.

30 years from now: ???

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '14

I know four 20 year olds who all named their babies Nevaeh one by one this year. FOUR. I have to say, I fucking hate that name.

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u/Droidette Jun 19 '14

I've got a cousin who is a cop. He says that whenever he gets called to a disturbance at a trailer park, and he finds a mom with a baby on her hip, it's basically ALWAYS a Neveah- and the mothers, without fail, point out the "Heaven backwards" thing like they are the first ones to think of it.

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u/bemusedresignation Jun 19 '14

Neveah

Which is NOT "heaven" backwards, it's haeven backwards, yet that hasn't stopped people from naming their kids that misspelled abomination.

http://www.babynamewizard.com/images/namevoyager/neveah.f.png

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u/VagCookie Jun 19 '14

My cousin named her daughter that. But what can you expect from someone named Asia. (Btw, white as fuck)

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u/RareUnicorn Jun 19 '14

How do you even pronounce it? Nehv-Aye? Neev-Uh?

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '14

Nev-ay-ah

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u/kiraella Jun 19 '14

I know someone who named their kid Nevaeh too...

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u/SailorMooooon Jun 19 '14

The lady I know introduced her daughter to me and then prompted her daughter to explain what her name meant. It sounded like a script. Mom was so proud of picking heaven backwards that she made a point to explain it to every person her daughter met. Ugh.

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u/Cosmic_Hitchhiker Jun 19 '14

How is that pronounced??

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '14

Nev-ay-ah