four in a class - really?

I was one of 4 of my name in my primary school class, at uni there was another girl with the same first, middle and surname as me and the same date of birth (I never met her, but found out at the medical centre when they kept mixing up our notes). At my current work, there's another woman with my first name sat only a couple of desks away from me, I've worked places where there's been 3-4 of us in the past.

So it does happen, and it's bloody annoying.

There were 5 or 6 Sarahs in my year of seventy girls, I was born in 1982, 4 louises, same year and 6 Stephens.

we have a few jacks in ds2's year and also Jacob/Jake is quite popular.

Bizarrely my ds3 is called Dylan and is the only one in his class, i thought it was commonish, certainly more common than my other childrens names.

and yes Lily is another one that popular, oh and Caitlin and Freya :)

Growing up (child of the 80's) there were certainly lots of James, Johns/Jons, Sophies, Samanthas/Sams, Marks, Matthews/Matts, Bens...

I was only one of three Nicolas in my year of 250+ and I was happy enough with that.

My jack is the only one at his nursery and I only know one other. Several Kaydens and Lillys though

Joshua was popular not so long ago, in our class of 8 we had three of them.

and in my class of 24 back in secondary we had a Kate, a Katherine, a Kathryn and a Catherine.

3 Charlottes in DS's Reception class of 30. Luckily they liked nicknames, so one Charlotte, one Lottie, one Charlie.

I was one of 3 of my name in my spanish class of 18 in secondary school.

and in my sons school and their year groups there are lots of Ellas, a few Olivias and quite a few Alex and James.

in my year at school there were LOADS and i mean more than 5 of each of Rebecca and Elizabeth!

they got called various versions of bek, bekka, becky, liz, lizzy, liza etc to distinguish between them.

i was almost a rebecca but my mum changed her mind when on the maternity ward there were 5 other baby girls, 3 of whom were called Rebecca! i have it as my middle name tho :)

2 Thomases and 2 Mathews

There was 3 of me in my class, 5 in the year, there were 8 Claires, 5 of whom were in the same class, lots of Sarahs too. My friends ds is one of 8 in his class and 3 of the boys without that name share a different name (Jack and Josh, they are 9).
I used to work in an office where all but one of the men was called John or Paul.

No replication but in DS's nursery group there is an Evie, an Eva, an Ava, an Amelia and an Amelie. Lots of very similar names around at the mo.

I am a claire; out of 13 girls in my PE group 8 were called claire.

I think there were 2 sam's in ds1's year, and 4 Harry's in ds3's. No biggie.

Three of my name just in my primary class, and I think six in my year at secondary.

2 x Olivers
2 x Ella's
2 x Holly's in ds' class

There will be 4 Olivers in DS's class in 2 years time, unless any of them move. (They are only 3 at mo).

There were many Helens in my class/year (born 1970) and 3 Zoes in my sister's class, out of 9 in the year (born 1974); there were also 2 Emma Louise Davises with the same birthday in her class. School didn't realise it was 2 people until they both turned up on same day.

Purpletortoise - my Noah is one of 3 in his year... And we too thought we were choosing serving that would be relatively unusual. (altho my mum who was horrified when we first chose it soon changed her tuned when within a month she came across another 6 babies with the name - gs of friends, hairdresser, person down the road, lady at golf etc so we realised belatedly we had hit on something that was maybe less unusual than we thought!

Mind you I once worked with 2 guys who worked together doing the same job for the same boss - and both had not only the same name but the same middle initial too. Made for some interesting conversations -
can I speak to Joe?
Which joe?
Joe bloggs.

Which Joe bloggs?
Joe x blogs
Which Joe x bloggs?
The one that's a pm for mr big
They are both pm's for mr big
Errr the tall one?

Luckily one was a bit taller than the other and one grew a goatee (whether or not it was grown as a distinguishing feature I don't know!)

It was quite fun watching people struggle through

Sorry that was a bit off topic!

In DS1's year there is Niamh, Neave and Neve, Caitlynn and Catelin, 2 Bens, Thomas and Tomas, 2 Ellie's.

I was in primary school with 4 Katies and a Kattie and secondary school with 5 Gemma's and 4 Allans.

Oh and you can't win I knew DD1 wouldn't be unique, but there are actually far more DD2s

One year DD wrote Xmas cards to Bill, Will and Billy. Now I think it's just 2 Harrys.
Several Isabel/Isobels at school plus Isabelle/Isabella at ballet. Vast numbers of slightly different Eva, Evie, Ella, Ellen, Eleanor, Emilys and an Emma who I mix up and I've just realised we have 2 Harriets (not the same class).
Ann/Anne and two Helens in my class at school.
Loads of Susans, three Tracys (Sharon was older). Several Sarahs, but different years and various Garys, Evans and Gareths. The worst though was the two girls with exactly the same first and last names, who's first name wasn't even common (only ones out of 500 girls), but who's surname was very local both in the same year.

Ds is Ben, he is 7 and there are 5 in his year. Tiny school too....Dd has another popular name but she likes it now she's at High school. Am hoping I got It right with Ds2...

DS1,2+3 all have names in the top 20 and they are the only ones in their classes (so far) an have been every year. Doesn't bother me if they are one of x amount as I like their names, thats why I chose them.

Although, DS1s name was not in the top 20 when we named him, it does seem to have become more popular the past few years.

There were 10 boys in our Under 1's group and 6 of them were called jack. Luckily I had a girl as I loved the name Jack when I was pregnant