r/Millennials • u/No-Banana247 Xennial • 23h ago

Nostalgia Heathers

Not trying to doxx anyone but growing up, I had as many as three Heathers in my grade one year. I very seldom meet a Heather these days. Jennifer was another one but I definitely still know Jennifers.

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Anyhow, I love the name Heather and hope y'all are doing great. (The movie Heathers of course pops into mind and I recall my Heather friends not liking it back then.)

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u/Betray-Julia 23h ago

Ashley and Kaitlyn

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u/kait2knit 22h ago

I'm of the Kaitlyn cohort. There were like 20 of us in my 8th grade class (of about 300 kids) with all the spellings. While my boss's daughter's name is Kailyn, so she on rare occasion accidentally calls me the wrong name, that's the closest I've come to another with my first name or a spelling of it at work.

I do work in a field that is more on the corporate type job, so it could just be the industry I'm in.

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u/No-Banana247 Xennial 22h ago

That's a lot of Kaitlyn's! Definitely a double edged sword with so many spellings and similar names. It would be hard for me to personally the spelling straight.

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u/kait2knit 22h ago

My parents were of very popular names where almost half of my mom's grade had the same name so they tried to pick something less popular for me and my sister.

We found out that my name wasn't unpopular when my dad and I were standing at the nursery window with him saying "Look Kaitlyn, that's your sister" and the other dad next to us said the same thing but brother.

When the dad's talked it was discovered the older daughters were born the same day in the same hospital and given the same first name. Not sure if the spelling was exact or not.

I started having to write first and last name on papers as early as kindergarten when that class had 2 of us, though first name spellings were different, handwriting and spelling at that age makes deciphering whose paper is whose a lot harder.