I Must Confess: when I was a child, “Janet” to me seemed like one of those middle aged woman names.
I had a picture in my mind of a dowdy woman with her hair in a bun, complete with sensible shoes, a drab tweed skirt, and glasses!
While I certainly wore glasses, the rest of the description didn’t fit.
I didn’t know any other “Janets”; and the only famous “Janets” back then were Janet Leigh and Janet Gaynor, both actresses of a similar vintage to my grandmother. This probably helped form my opinion, as well as the characters called Janet in the the books I read or in TV shows or movies. In fact, it wasn’t until teacher’s college that I met another Janet – and then there were 4 of us!
Even today, you don’t really hear of baby girls being christened “Janet”.
Perhaps it really is true now – if it wasn’t before – and Janet has genuinely become a middle aged name!
Typical Names for a Middle Aged Woman
Looking at some of the names of the latest likers at the Middle Aged Mama page on Facebook, there are quite a few that rarely – if ever – belong to anybody born before 1975. Here are just a few of the other typical middle aged woman names, which I noticed:
Karen – Sharon – Tracey – Susan/Suzanne/Sue/Suzie/Susie – Deb/Debra/Debbie – Jenny – Linda – Cathy/Kathy – Vicky – Wendy – Julie – Carolyn/Caroline/Carol – Jan – Alison
Darren – Steven/Stephen – Trevor – Wayne – Jeff/Geoff – Paul – Michael – David – Tony – Craig – Eric – Peter – Andrew – Martin
As soon as you hear any of these names, you can be pretty safe in assuming that the male is at least 35 or older.
Do you agree? What other typically “middle aged woman names” could be added to my list?!
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