Members Faulkner Posted July 23, 2018 Author Members Share Posted July 23, 2018 Oh I remember the “Erica” generation. In my all-black rural Southern high school in the late ‘90s, the popular names were Monique, Nicole, Amber, and Lawanda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted July 23, 2018 Members Share Posted July 23, 2018 (edited) Wait, Lawanda? Was there a late-'90's burst of popularity for Aunt Esther or something? Saying "the 'Erica generation" puts in my mind the image of Susan Lucci, in her best Erica Kane getup, saluting a large room filled with women also named Erica, who are holding up their tubes of mascara in solidarity. Edited July 23, 2018 by Khan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted July 23, 2018 Author Members Share Posted July 23, 2018 Yeah, I know. It was a very small town, and some of these names got passed down through families. But sooo many Lawandas at my school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members j swift Posted July 23, 2018 Members Share Posted July 23, 2018 I find it remarkable that were women nicknamed "Cricket" on both Y&R and ATWT. It does not seem like a common nickname. I can think of tons of Sean/Shawn's and Becca/Rebecca's but only one Raven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted July 23, 2018 Members Share Posted July 23, 2018 Plus, their last names were Montgomery and Blair. I went to Montgomery Blair High School and my friend thought I was trolling her when I mentioned Y&R's Cricket Montgomery (my mistake). ATWT's Cricket was played by Wednesday Adams herself, Lisa Loring. Lol, my friend and I were really into Erika Slezak and Erica Kane and we have a long-running joke about a girl we saw on the news named Ericka ("Her mother couldn't decide!"). And more recently, a meme: Please register in order to view this content I knew plenty of Crystals but never spelled like Dynasty's Krystle. My brother's high school gf Alexis was born before Dynasty but I knew a boy a few grades below me named Alexis and I may have been *a little* jealous. I have also encountered a couple Fallons and Sables in adulthood, but never a Bliss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted July 23, 2018 Members Share Posted July 23, 2018 (edited) Following in the footsteps of Leslie (Brooks) Lauren (Fenmore) Phyllis (Summer) Victoria (Reed) in using a family surname as their child's first name, some other Y&R characters who could do the same if a baby came along Chris and Paul - Blair Williams Hilary and Devon - Curtis Hamilton Sharon and Nick - Collin Newman Cane and Lily - Winter Ashby Tricia and Ryan - Dennison McNeil Neil and Karen - Taylor Winters Patty and Jack - William Abbott Mari Jo and Jack - Mason Abbott Edited July 23, 2018 by Paul Raven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted July 23, 2018 Members Share Posted July 23, 2018 Daimler would've been a perfect name for yet another little badass child of Blair's. She dropped the name and adopted Cramer, but it would've been a nice tribute to the folks who raised her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ryan Chamberlain Posted July 23, 2018 Members Share Posted July 23, 2018 That makes me sad now that Hevon having a chance of having a kid is gone. Cause, Curtis Hamilton is a really good name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted July 23, 2018 Members Share Posted July 23, 2018 One of the girls in my older brother's friend group from high school is named Sable (of course, everyone pronounces it "SAY-buh"), and he hung out with that group right around the time I was getting into the primetime soaps and learning about them, so I always had to fight the urge to ask her if she was named after Miss Sabella. I once went down the rabbit hole of tracking certain names to see if soaps helped make them popular, and it's surprising how much correlation there is. There's no proof for causation, but I'm pretty sure The Edge of Night made Nicole a popular name in the 70s. Tons of parents named their kids after Erica Kane's daughters Bianca and Kendall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted July 23, 2018 Members Share Posted July 23, 2018 Bianca is most famously from Shakespeare but boy does it just SMACK of quintessential eighties snob. Please register in order to view this content I'm reminded of the Mr. Belvedere where Heather wants to be called Bianca (of course Angela keeps calling her Binaca), and Beverly Hills Teens with the raven-haired villainess Bianca. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ReddFoxx Posted July 23, 2018 Members Share Posted July 23, 2018 I have mentioned this before, but I was named after Chase Gioberti on Falcon Crest (mine is spelled slightly different). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SteelCity Posted July 23, 2018 Members Share Posted July 23, 2018 It seemed like in the 90s, all the Black characters were Jamal and Keesha. I was in Spanish class with a Krystle, and I used to always tell her that her mom had to be Dynasty fan. She never got it. Bliss always seemed like a porn star or a stripper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted July 23, 2018 Author Members Share Posted July 23, 2018 I knew a lot of Jamals and Keeshas/Keishas in real life, but yeah, soaps overdid it. I also knew a lot of black guys named Demarcus and Deangelo and Devante. Tons of Jareds, Josephs, Antonios, and Brandons. Just as there were plenty of girls like LaQuana, Lakeisha, and Shonda as well as Victoria, Katrina/Trina, Veronica, Christina, Bridget, and Krystal/Crystal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Titus Andronicus Posted July 24, 2018 Members Share Posted July 24, 2018 I know a handful of individuals named after soap characters. Including Young Dr. Malone, when it was still a radio soap. How many other Romans have there been? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SteelCity Posted July 24, 2018 Members Share Posted July 24, 2018 There's a nurse at the local hospital named after the titular character on "Portia Faces Life." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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