Baby name expert says these are the new ‘mum’ names in 2025

Sometimes all it takes is hearing a person’s name to work out when they were born.

There are some names that just scream ‘mum’ energy.

But according to one baby name expert, ‘mum’ names are looking different these days now that ’90s babies are all grown up and having kids of their own.

Watch the video above. 

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“Move aside Karen, Deb, Barb, Susan,” TikToker Colleen proclaims in a new video. 

Instead, Alexandra or Alex for short, all spellings of the name Britney, Amanda, Alexis, Nicole, Heather, Stephanie and Lauren are apparently all the new ‘mum’ names in 2025. 

“This occurs to me every time I’m out with my friends and I see all out names together,” the expert says, explaining it’s “so obvious when we were born”.

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And it’s not just millennial names that are entering their ‘mum’ era.

”What’s crazy is that Gen Z started in 1997 so Taylor and Madison are ‘mum’ names now,” the expert pointed out.

The post was inundated with comments pointing out other new ‘mum’ names.

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Sarah, Jennifer, Shelby, Ashley and Rachel were all thrown around.

In the video, the TikToker brought up one thing that stumped her about this shift.

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Despite ’90s nostalgia being all the rage in recent years with fashion trends from the decade making a grand comeback, the craze hasn’t seemed to spread to baby names.

People in the comments had some ideas why.

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“People don’t want to name their kids after the same people they grew up with,” one person argued.

Another agreed associating the names with kids you grew up with in the ’90s “is probably just too close to home”.

“It has to become vintage enough where you don’t know so many people with that name,” someone else said.

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