2026 Gymnastics Social Media bits

[Indy]

My kid has multiple classmates named Emmett. Every Emmett’s parents have expressed their surprise that their kid was not the only one with that name in their grade.

 

[RedBirdie]

There's 3 Theodores on one little league team, never mind all the other Theodores on the 10 other teams at my kid's level. Several team have 2, and I'd be shocked if there's any teams without one.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

Oh, yes. In addition to the preponderance of Sophias, my daughter's peer group also includes a lot of "A" names: Abby, Addy (short for Addison), Ada, Alyssa, and Ava. I have to be very careful when I'm texting the parents, who are usually listed in my phone contacts as so-and-so's mom/dad.

That's one thing about being a parent: you sometimes lose your own name. My daughter's friends simply call me S's mom. That's fine because that's who I am. I'm not Mrs. Anybody, even though I've been married for 25 years. (I didn't take my husband's name because I despise my father-in-law.) I'm Dr. Somebody by virtue of having a Ph.D., but it's not a title I use socially. So S's mom it is!

Sometimes other parents even call me by my daughter's name. I don't bat an eyelash. Sometimes I don't even notice until they apologize for the slip.

I'm a fucker for doing that, especially once the kids get bigger (I think we both have an 11 year old?) and half of them are the same size as their mums. At least when they're 4, the size is a helpful visual cue!

Personally I've answered since childhood to my own name, both sisters, my mum's and female cousins of around my age, so it's no big deal to add the daughters. It's just easier that way!

 

[IratePanda]

I'm a fucker for doing that, especially once the kids get bigger (I think we both have an 11 year old?) and half of them are the same size as their mums. At least when they're 4, the size is a helpful visual cue!

Personally I've answered since childhood to my own name, both sisters, my mum's and female cousins of around my age, so it's no big deal to add the daughters. It's just easier that way!

Yes, my daughter is 11, and she's taller than I am!

 

[daniTS]

Some classic names there. "Eleanor" and "Althea" strike me as names for older people, but then I remember that every Eleanor or Althea was a baby at one time. And I love "Jane"--just very solid.

My BFF in middle school's mom was an 'Anthea' and even when we were 10 I used to think about that haha

 

[MaryClare]

In Russia there isn’t much variety in boys names. The same names go in and out of fashion every decade or so with a core group of 5/6 names being pretty timeless.

To give you an example, figure skaters Alexandra Trusova and Alyona Kostornaya have both given birth to sons in the last year or so and have gone for very traditional names, Mikhail and Dmitry.

Girl names are much more influenced by trends. The main one seems to be for names that historically have been almost non existent in Russia, but work well in the Russian language. Names like Ariana, Lucia, Olivia, Emilia.

Since it was Mykayla Skinner who brought us onto this topic, here is a fun fact. So despite Mikhail being one of the most popular names of all time, we don’t have a female equivalent. Mikhaila isn’t used at all. When we translate someone who is called Michaela/Mckayla etc we use Микелла as the most common translation and actually there is a well known Russian celebrity who called his daughter this! McKayla Maroney becomes Mikella Maroni and ends up looking and sounding Italian rather than Irish!