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Popular names in your children's school year groups

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Firebird83 · 01/05/2026 16:30

DS in Year 3 has multiples of Violet, Florence, Reuben and Joshua.

DD in Reception has more than one Kit, Felix and Beatrice in her year.

How about yours?

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BananaPeels · 27/09/2026 19:34

Mine are older but Sebastian was immensely popular in my elder’s year group.

mum1345 · 27/09/2026 19:33

X3 Zachary’s in our reception class.
isla/ayla
Savannah x2

LBFseBrom · 27/09/2026 18:17

There were lots of Davids and Nicholases in my son's year. They even once had a snooker game of Daves v Nicks. James, Dominic and Jeremy came next.

Girls were Sarah, Louise, Jessica followed by Nicola, Elizabeth (Beth), Fiona.

Scorpion84 · 27/09/2026 18:10

X2 lilys and 2 Erin's in my daughters reception class

and Lots of E names in general , everley , Evelyn

MsJJones · 27/09/2026 11:01

Multiples of
Isa/Eisa
Aliyah
Isabella
Adam
Dylan
Fatima
David

Blushingm · 17/09/2026 13:24

Oh and 2 x Ellie

Blushingm · 17/09/2026 13:23

When DD was in school she had 4 x Corey, 2 x Jessica, 2 x Daisy, 2 x Megan

constantnc · 17/09/2026 13:20

In a non school group of 10 kids - 4 Amelia's

Tabbytiger122 · 10/09/2026 07:40

14 year old dd, loads of her friends either Emily, Grace or Ava!

WonderWeeksArentReal · 09/09/2026 11:40

Leo
Theo
Max
George
Harry
Jake

Isla
Amelia
Ava
Ella/Ellie
Sophie/Sophia
Belle (mixture of Annabelles/Isabelles of various spellings)

MsSquiz · 09/09/2026 11:33

DD in reception has 2x James, 2x Leo and 2x Iyla (different spellings though) in a year group of 28 children. In nursery there was also 2x Felix and 2x Finlay

DD in yr2 has no multiple names at all and hasn’t since preschool.

Ladybird04 · 09/09/2026 11:21

It’s interesting how local name trends are. I don’t know any Lily’s or Noah’s.
Duplicate names where we are in Y5 and Y3:
Hope
Olivia
Caitlin
Maddison
Denis
Freddie

Yellowchair1 · 09/09/2026 09:42

Oh yes lots of George's too!

thestraycathouse · 31/08/2026 19:45

My daughter is going into Y11 - I swear 90%of her friends have names ending with an -ee sound.

Lily, Milly, darcie, Evie, Alfie, Charlie, Kayleigh, Edie, Marcie…….

BestZebbie · 31/08/2026 19:29

New Yr7 - many many girl names that can be shortened to either Izzy or Bella, three flavours of "Harry" names. Far fewer Theo/Leos, Maya/Mae and Elsa/Esme than in the previous class though.

Bulufect5 · 31/08/2026 19:00

Amelia, variations of Mia/Mya and Isabella/Bella.
For the boys, a lot of Teddys and Freddys.

strawberrykat · 26/08/2026 20:31

So many Leos and Theos. Multiple Isabellas and a few Isabelles, Annabels and Anabellas

beeble347 · 26/08/2026 20:28

DC is not in school yet but among the local baby groups there have been loads of Henrys, Leos, Isaacs and Reubens. I actually had all four on my list though we went for a far more unusual family name from DH's culture!

I met one Reuben whose mum said he was one of several in his baby room at nursery alone! Never knew it had got popular.

Among the secondary girls I work with, there are many variants of Lily, Lilly, Lilah, Isla, Lilliah as well as lots of Evies.

Tunaboona · 26/08/2026 20:25

Honestly very few repeats. Very different to my 1980s primary where all girls were either Emma, Sarah or Rachel and all boys were Luke or Matthew (Matty).

Besidemyselfwithworry · 26/08/2026 20:21

In the current year 3 - going up in Sept there are 6 Isaacs and 5 George’s and 4 Emily’s!!!!

yr 6 another 3 Isaacs

year 9 when In juniors there was 4 mollys!

AgnesMcDoo · 26/08/2026 20:20

Callum, Gregor, Blair, Brodie, Ruiradh

Sophie, Millie, Isla, Poppy, Caitlin

Scotland

Kwamitiki · 26/08/2026 20:17

Parkrun1989 · 26/08/2026 10:53

I second this, also SE based.

Everyone is called Isla with a sprinkling of Rubys and Lilly-May/May/Mai/Mae.

Boys are either Alfie or Archie.

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That's interesting. I know no Islas, Rubies or Lilys. Also no Alfies or Archies! Also SE.

One thing I have noticed is that there is zero duplication of names in the year below DD's (she is about to start y2, so those about tk start y1; 60 lods in the year). The names that are popular in that year aren't used at all in DD's year.

Parkrun1989 · 26/08/2026 10:53

CharlieBoo · 22/08/2026 23:35

I know 4 Isla’s.. ranging from 14-4 years old. That and Lily are by far the most popular girls names here.. (South East)

I second this, also SE based.

Everyone is called Isla with a sprinkling of Rubys and Lilly-May/May/Mai/Mae.

Boys are either Alfie or Archie.

Focusispower · 24/08/2026 03:58

Surprisingly few repeats at my daughters school. No two the same in their class but a couple that are similar. Very multicultural group. Across my friends and a wider social circle there seems to be loads of Dylan, Reuben, Sophia/Sofia/Sophies, Oscar, Leo.

user1492757084 · 24/08/2026 01:52

Duplicates of 4 or more at school ...

Jack
Alex
Thomas
Charles
Ben
Tim
Harry
Samuel
Daniel
Matthew
George
Shane
Lachlan
Patrick
James

Kate/Cate/Caitlin
Sarah
Lucy
Grace
Charlotte
Emily/Amelia
Felicity
Emma
Madeleine
Amy
Zoe
Victoria
Phoebe
Rosemary/Rosie
Anna/Hannah