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How it feels to any individual really isn't relevant to someone who wants to avoid a dated name, anyway.
That actually is important to me, more so than facts. :) I'd rather get a bunch of opinions on how dated a name feels rather than statistics, as I don't think the charts necessarily answer the question all of the time.
Anyway, I do see what you're saying and I should retract that Erin hasn't been popular. I guess what I meant was, in Erin's case, it was in the top 100 for about 30 or so years, so it would be hard for me to have confidence in pinpointing when an Erin was born. It doesn't seem dated to me, because at this point, there are lots of Erin's of different ages.
Some other examples of names that reached a peak in the U.S. but were relatively common for decades: Christine, Angela, Rachel, Megan. I could make educated guesses as to when these ladies were born, but there's really a wide range of possibilities here, and I don't associate them with one specific time period (which is more my definition of datedness). YMMV!
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That actually is important to me, more so than facts. :) I'd rather get a bunch of opinions on how dated a name feels rather than statistics, as I don't think the charts necessarily answer the question all of the time.
Anyway, I do see what you're saying and I should retract that Erin hasn't been popular. I guess what I meant was, in Erin's case, it was in the top 100 for about 30 or so years, so it would be hard for me to have confidence in pinpointing when an Erin was born. It doesn't seem dated to me, because at this point, there are lots of Erin's of different ages.
Some other examples of names that reached a peak in the U.S. but were relatively common for decades: Christine, Angela, Rachel, Megan. I could make educated guesses as to when these ladies were born, but there's really a wide range of possibilities here, and I don't associate them with one specific time period (which is more my definition of datedness). YMMV!
"We are all horrible and wonderful and figuring it out." - Harris Wittels
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I must admit I've known only two Erins, while I've known a plethora of Heathers, Amandas, Ashleys, Jessicas, and Sarahs. And the two Erins I knew were widely divergent in age. One was my age, born circa 1960, and the other roughly my daughter's age, born in the early 1980s.
It happened that I greatly disliked both Erins, so maybe that's influenced my opinion of the name, lol.
It happened that I greatly disliked both Erins, so maybe that's influenced my opinion of the name, lol.
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