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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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tapdancingmum · 23/08/2026 23:04

modgepodge · 23/08/2026 21:39

In my child’s year (2) there are two of: Olivia, elodie, stan, luna, robin (both girls and both spelt like that, plus 2 boys called Robin in the year below!)

Olivia is to be expected but all the others I thought were more unusual.

Are you at a school in a village with the initials LG as you have just described my preschool group from a few years ago 😀

wanttokickoffbutcant · 23/08/2026 22:59

Brownbear8 · 04/08/2026 08:21

Ella, Anna, Bella
George, Harry, Josh, Theo, Grayson, Jack, Ben, Elijah

Ooh I am an Anna and I don't know another one! (but I am old). My DD16 has had three boyfriends named Alfie...I call them Alfie 1, 2 and 3. Many Lily's and Olivia's in her cohort. Arlo seems to be very popular now for boys.

Denim4ever · 23/08/2026 22:13

Sparklinggreen · 01/05/2026 18:27

Elena seems to be popular in my child’s year group

Pronounced El-lay-na or El-lan-na? A friend pronounces it the latter way, which baffles me because that's spelled Eleanor or Elinor

ItalianChineseIndianMexican · 23/08/2026 21:47

Y8 Boys - Ben, Charlie, Arthur, Max, Luke/Luca/Lucas

Girls- Lucy, Eleanor/Ellie, Isabelle/Isabella, Maya/Mia, Charlotte

Toastersandkettles · 23/08/2026 21:47

There are a lot of similar sounding names in DS's year (year 7). Ayla, Layla, Lyla, Nyla, Isla, Mia, Leah, Tia, Sia.

DemBonesDemBones · 23/08/2026 21:43

P5 I don’t think there are any duplicates!
S1 Theo Leo Lachlan Struan and Joseph are all at least doubles
S2 Harris Joseph Fergus and girls Isla and Isabelle all at least doubles

Mosaic80 · 23/08/2026 21:41

Ds at secondary, popular names are Charlie, Alexander Andrew. Dd is reception and pollard names are Reuben, Arthur, Eleanor, Ellen, Ava, ivy, Amelia/emilia. And arlo also, there were 4 out of 10 babies at one of DD’s baby groups named arlo!

modgepodge · 23/08/2026 21:39

In my child’s year (2) there are two of: Olivia, elodie, stan, luna, robin (both girls and both spelt like that, plus 2 boys called Robin in the year below!)

Olivia is to be expected but all the others I thought were more unusual.

Swissmeringue · 23/08/2026 21:20

Only 60 kids in the school so I don't think there's any repeats within a year group. There's multiples of Oliver, Jessica, Evie, Darcey and Ophelia throughout the school though.

Helenbelena · 23/08/2026 17:39

And Theo - we know at least 10… Shock

Helenbelena · 23/08/2026 17:38

Jack, Harry, Archie, Ollie, Tom, Noah, Jack - they are the Steve, Andy & Mikes from our generation

Isla, Ella, Ellie, Isabel, Sophie, Maya etc

Hoork · 23/08/2026 05:05

Anna
Sophie/Sophia/Sofia
Ella/Ellie
Maya/Maia
Iris
Isabella/Izzy/Issi

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 23/08/2026 04:19

Y12- Thomas, Oliver, Noah, Rory, Evie, Caitlin

Y9 - Amy/Aimee, Isla, Phoebe , Thomas, Noah, Zak, Gabriel

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)

Gemstonebeach · 22/08/2026 21:26

Noah, Oliver, Theo, Eli/Elijah and Isla, Ruby and then lots that’s sound similar for girls as another poster mentioned.

Lion1618 · 22/08/2026 21:20

Archie, Jack, Albie, Rosie, Isabelle/Isabelle

troppibambini6 · 05/08/2026 18:51

Amelia, Izzy, Sophie/sofia.
Luca, Joseph, Theo, Jacob

TheBirdintheCave · 05/08/2026 18:40

Max x2, Leo x2, Jaxson x3 (all that same misspelling 🙄) and Olivia x2. DS has just finished Reception.

greenfingers2026 · 05/08/2026 17:49

Multiple Noahs in reception here

FunnyOrca · 05/08/2026 08:50

Olivia, Orla, Isla, Theo, Leo

HorribleHisTories15 · 04/08/2026 22:41

Elias
Oliver
Mia
Leila/Layla/Lila
Isla
Sophie/Sophia/Sophy

in one child’s class there is a Lucian (boy) and a Lucianna

EzWin2 · 04/08/2026 17:36

Leo and Ezra.
Amelia, Olivia, Millie.

Daffodilsinthespring · 04/08/2026 12:21

Dd is 30 now but 20% of the girls in her year group were called Emily and she had 7 friends called Georgia.

Mumofgirls2017 · 04/08/2026 12:08

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Brownbear8 · 04/08/2026 08:21

Ella, Anna, Bella
George, Harry, Josh, Theo, Grayson, Jack, Ben, Elijah

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