four in a class - really?

Jeez samstar that must have been a bit of a nightmare sometimes.

I was one of 7 Jennifer's in my year at secondary school (big school), and am one of 3 in my section at work. Two of us have the same second initial. My mother swore she knew of no-one else with a Jennifer in 1976! My surname is also very like a famous Jennifer, which gave me no end of hassle (think phoning for a taxi, etc.)

You can understand why we chose something slightly more original for DD. So far, she's the only Zara at her nursery....

There were 6 of my name in my primary school class of about 30. It was the 80's and it was a very popular name. It was a bit of a pain TBH, though I haven't gone one to choose unique, unusual names for my DD. Both may end up with a duplicate in their class, but we didn't go for the very popular names like Grace, Lily and Olivia which maybe make it more likely.

Of sixty children in Year 5 at DD2's school, seven are named Harry.

I was always one of at least 3 in my year, and probably about 8 in the whole of secondary school.

Only one at work though

Ranty - yep, just like that! Some documents (for assessments, register etc) were surname first and some werent so it could get very confusing at times!

Repeated names in our reception class - Masie x4, Thomasx3, Eviex3, Dylanx3, Charliex3 (1 female) and Amyx2 last year it was all Emily/Emma/Amy/Esme and Thomas/William/George and Lewis.

I'm in multi-cultural, multi-ethnic London, where there is a great spread of names. The names that are repeated (eg two in one year) are Harry, Charlie, Ella, Louis,

samstown do you mean that one was called Fraser Martin and the other was called Martin Fraser for example?

In a class I taught a while back there were two boys with exactly the same first AND second name (same spelling and everything). In the same class therre were also two boys who had opposite names, so one was called X Y and the other was called Y X if you see what I mean! Most confusing!

I was one of 3 Sarah C's in primary school.

Teacher would say it during register 'Sarah C, Sarah C, and Sarah C?' all of us harmonizing 'Here' at the same time.

Sigh...

There was always more than one with my name in each class-luckily it is a name with many nn. Partly why I chose more unsual names for my DC.

repeated names (same class) at my DC schools

Nathan, Oliver, James, Thomas, Charlie, Abbie, Georgia, Jack, Jacob, Sam, Aimee, Ben, Harry, Holly, Maddison, Elizabeth, Archie

toddler groups..Harry, Evie, Ella, Grace, Evan, Isabelle

Lillian actually know a little Keith [hshock][hsmile] also know a little Donna and was a bit surprised by that one especially as her brother is named Pita, sorry Peter [hgrin].

I remember there were multiple Fionas and Karens in my classes in the 1970s.

DH was one of about eight in his dept with his name at one point. He is in IT and it is a very common IT name it would seem

Meant to say in ds2 class there were 3 Dyland,couple Jamie and 2 Daniels.In ds1 class there was 2 Kevins.

Ds1 is called Dylan,theres loads of them but luckily he was the only one in his class.I must have just got in.

In my class there were no duplicates - however Kelly, Kerry, Kaleh and Keelee mush have been confusing enough :-)

Probably safest to go for something that has fallen entirely out of fashion if you want to be really unique - Gertrude, Edna, Doreen anyone or maybe Derek, Rodney or Keith?

Really sparkle, poor teacher !

In my sons class:

3 Georges
3 Alexanders
2 Freddys
an Amelie and an Amelia
a Maya, a Mia and a Mina.

Phew!

In my class (back in the 70s) there were two Brigids. I have never met another one since!

I'm an 86 Lucy. There were four in my class and 7 in total in the year at my secondary school. Hated it then, still hate it!

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I'm a '68 Sarah.

There was never one of me, and sometimes as many as four of us.

In my very first job I had a name change forced on me because they already had a Big Sarah, Little Sarah and a Sara. As did the Karen who started the YTS with me.

I speant a year getting shouted at cos I never could get the habit of responding to yells of "Amy!" meaning somebody wanted my attention.

Other than that, I really like my name.

Eeek, lots of George's out there! My DS is George and I knew it was a popular name when we chose it, but I would rather he wasn't one of many in his class! Mind you a friend who teaches at a primary school in the area says she has never had a George and most of their boys tend to be Jayden, Connor, Charlie, Harry, Jaime, Morgan etc. Fingers crossed!

When I was at school we had (in a class of 31) three Daniels, three Andrews, three Lauras, two Jennifers, two Katherines, two Katies, two Sarahs and a Gemma and Jemma. Looking back I feel very sorry for our teacher!

When I was at uni there were so many Daves that they all had different nicknames eg Disco Dave, Afro Dave, Big Dave etc. They all seemed to like their nicknames and seemed to try and live up to them as much as they could....