I know this is a strange question, but:

Can your aunty or uncle be younger than you?
Ie... using random names and dates

Grandmother 1930-Present
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|______________ Danielle 1962 - present
|......................................................... |
|..........................................................|
|............................... Dominic 1970 - present(ignore those Dots)
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Bradly
1971 - present

(using the names from east enders haha)

Also, if that was the case, would you still call them aunty / uncle XXXXX

Yes, they can.

Absolutely. My father was the baby of a large family, and took great pleasure as a little 'un pulling rank on his older niece whenever she got too bossy for his liking.

Yes. I have a pupil who is 4 and was a "little surprise" for his parents. His sister is older and has a 7 year old child.

He recently became an uncle again!

Yes you can - my mother is one of 10 children. Her oldest sister was born 10 years before her, and my mum isn't the youngest. The oldest sister had her first child quite young (aged 17/18 I think) so the youngest brothers and sisters in the family are all younger than their nieces and nephews.

That makes a lot of my cousins older or around the same age as my parents - It is a source of amusement sometimes!

They only call my mum "auntie" when they are playing around and joking with each other. We all get along really well, regardless of the age differences!

Definitely. One of my cousins had a son who is a year younger than her grandson, but technically her son is the uncle and her grandson is the nephew. Then she legally adopted her grandson so now the two boys are....close.

Yes you can, my youngest son isn't younger than his nephew but easily could have been. If my daughter had her son at the age that I had her, then he would have been older than my son. As it is there is 2 years difference.

Lots of children can't get their heads round that little children are aunties and uncles. In fact my son's friends used to argue with him and tell him that he couldn't be an uncle because he was too young.

Sometimes my son's nephews call him Uncle ....., but mostly these days they just call him by his first name. It was really funny when the first nephew was born and we used to say something about Uncle ...... all the time. It was only as they got older and became friends that we lost the uncle.

ET

This thread is confusing!

(When I was wee I always wanted to be an Aunty... my brother is still only 14. )

My daughter's friend had a Nephew older than her and a younger niece, children of the same sibling, in her class at Primary school.

Rather off-topic, but I just heard that a girl I taught in primary school has just had a baby (she is 15 and in Y11) .

Also a friend's son's girlfriend's mother (hope you're following this) is pregnant...she already has children of 21 and 17...

Rather her than me