Don't you think they should be a name in English for when you are older than your Auntie and uncle?

1. That's not at all a common situation, at least in English-speaking countries, so there isn't a great need for such a word. 2. We don't have different words for any other type of family relationship based on age. "Brother," "sister," and "sibling," for example, don't have variants based on relative age. 3. English-speaking countries generally don't have the kind of culture where there's a strongly-enforced "authority" that older people have over younger people. There is some, but nowhere near the amount you'd see in South Asian or East Asian cultures, for example. 4. Language in general isn't bound to follow logical rules.

To put it bluntly no since in English-speaking countries aunts and uncles do not have authority, its only a way to describe how they are related to you.

As everyone says the word doesn't exist in English. I'm not fluent in these languages but I don't think Mandarin or Spanish has that situation in words either. BUT if a language does have a word for it then I don't see why English can't just use that word too. Schadenfreude is a very German word that was stolen.

No

No. In our culture, aunts and uncles are just a type of blood relation. And they only have authority over you if your parents grant it, just like any other babysitter. We also almost never say "auntie". It sounds old-fashioned and childish at the same time. 😅 It's the kind of word you'd see in a children's book from 1902.

Where are you from

I have some (adopted) uncles who are a few years younger than me, and we just call each other cousins.

I wish there was a word for it because I’m two years older than my uncle and I usually have to call him my cousin if I’m talking about him to people who don’t know him so they don’t assume I’m talking about someone much older than me

I'm in the US. I can't and won't speak for other cultures, but while in general, adults have a certain amount of authority just for being adults, there isn't usually additional authority given to aunts and uncles just because they are your aunt or uncle. The kind of family hierarchy you are talking about isn't a common one, at least in the US, with families who are culturally American. I have seen this dynamic in 1st and 2nd generation immigrant households. Some Southern households also have a different expectation of respect, and more stringent hierarchies in general. Though, to agree with most of the folks who have already commented, the age difference you are talking about doesn't generally happen in the US. All of my grandparents had between 6 and 7 siblings. My grandmother was the oldest of 8. Her youngest sibling was barely older than my oldest aunt. But she was still older. Families here usually don't have anywhere near that many kids these days.

No, they do not have any authority over us.

Lots of thorough answers here so I won’t repeat. Just wanted to say that at least in the US we don’t say “Auntie” as the corresponding title to “Uncle” when referencing them, we use “Aunt.” Most of the time a kid, and almost always an adult, will also call and their aunt “Aunt Jane” not “Auntie Jane”. If “Auntie” is used it reflects a higher degree of intimacy. Like for example mother vs. mommy. So we wouldn’t say “your father and your mommy” or even “your mommy and your dad.” Also there are a decent number of families where you just call an aunt or uncle ( who are older) by their name, especially once you are an adult.

What you’re experiencing is textbook confirmation bias. Many people have told you that this cultural standard does not exist, but you instead try to shape their words and beliefs in a way where it seems like it does. You found a few people who affirmed your experience and you use that as evidence that your experience is the norm. You mention TikTok. TikTok is going to feed you more of what you’ve already clicked on, further supporting your biases. If you are seeing families who uphold this standard on your feed, it’s because you want to, not because it’s common. Reddit works the same way, but because that’s not the content you typically consume on Reddit, you are not seeing it in your feed. But because Reddit is not conforming to your pre-existing beliefs, you choose to view them as abnormal and wrong. Now because you are suffering so heavily from this, you are not going to believe me when I tell you for the umpteenth time that the idea that family members have authority over you just by virtue of being older is not a part of western culture. I do hope that one day, you let go of your assumptions and realize that this is true. In the meantime, [read this article](https://www.webmd.com/balance/what-is-confirmation-bias) to learn more.

There should or could be a lot of concepts in a lot of languages that do not exist. But simply put, this doesn't exist in English. Maybe it should, I don't know. But for me, personally, I don't have a need for this word. It comes up infrequently. And unlike some other languages, there's no precedent of familial titles being informed by age or respect level, they're informed by the relation of you to others. So whether or not there should be or not, I don't foresee it happening

I mean, I do like the idea of calling them “Jaunty” and “Junkle” for “Junior Aunt & Uncle”. Too bad it’s not a thing but I know a couple of people who were in the same class in that situation a few years ago!

That’s not how our culture works.

If you guys are peers, why not just call them by their name then?

i would imagine one relates to these aunts & uncs not as authority figures, but as one does to their near age cousins, without any courtesy title. tho i don’t know any such family, so i have no evidence to back that up.

Being older than your aunt or uncle is pretty uncommon, so there isn't a word for it. Maybe in places where it happens more often there's a word.