First Names that were popular in your school

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In high school there was 3 Ryan's.

Ceri
Rebecca
Sian
Trystan
David
Jonathan/John
Gareth

I left 2011 and had 6 Sophie's, 5 Amelia's, 4 Katherine's, 4 Sarah's 3 Rebecca's and 3 Emily's. Also common were Alice, Charlotte, variants on Elizabeth, Hannah and Laura but I can't remember exact numbers.

Howard
Gary
Kevin
David
Richard
Jonathan
Ian
Darren
Mark
Craig
Carl

Jill
Karen
Susan
Elaine
Nicola
Anne
Ruth
Helen
Amanda
Caroline

Mid 1960/early 70s

I never ever see my name quoted as being in vogue for any generation.

1980s girls private school

Vicky
Catherine
Katie
Sarah
Joanna
Emma

Rebecca, Charlotte, Elizabeth, Abigail, Sophie.

James, William, Henry, Michael, Christopher.

Pretty much every boy in my class was Robert/Stephen/Andrew/David/Paul/Alan/Michael. My male cousins too.
My family was slightly more adventurous with girls' names, as were my neighbours, but there was still a hefty complement of Catherines, Sarahs, Rachels and Lindas at my primary school. When I got to secondary, the place was swarming with Sues.

Emma, Louise (extremely popular as a middle name as well), Sarah, Rebecca.

David, Darren, Daniel, Stephen, Mark.

Northwest late 80's-90's.

Bog standard 70s/80s names: Sarah, Emma, Claire, Katherine, Rachel, but rarely more than 2 of each per class.

There seems to be such a small pool of names being used at the moment. In my daughter's school class (16 girls) they have 2 x Amelie, an Amelia, 2 x Emily and a Millie. And in one of her dance classes there are 4 x Isabella and an Isabelle (only 12 kids in the class!)

Emma
Sharon
Christopher
Steven

My friend taught at a school in the late 90s where of the 16 girls 11 were Emma or Gemma

Girls’ school in the seventies. There were 12 Judiths in our year, out of a total of about 120 girls.
What was going on? I’ve rarely met a Judith since.

Everyone was called Sarah, Nicola, Abigail, Hannah, Rebecca, Lyndsey, Paula, Rachel or Claire.

Boys: Lots of Mathew, Andrew, Mark, Ben, Christopher, Luke, Paul, David, Simon, Stephen/Steven.

Girls school mid nineties

Jo/Joanne
Laura
Sarah
Charlotte
Rebecca
Hannah
Catherine/Kathryn
Lisa

Katie, Emma, Lauren, Sarah.

Every other boy was called Craig.

All girls school mid-late 90s

Sarah
Claire
Lisa
Rachel
Joanna
Nicola
Amy
Natalie
Louise

Boys of the same age were all called Matt!

Sarah
Chloe
Rebecca
Danielle
Hannah

Russell
Daniel
John
Joe/Joseph

90's kid

Jo
Gemma
Emma
Lucy
Kelly
Kerry
Jodie
Sarah
Becky

David
Joe
Dan/Danny/Daniel
Adam
Aaron
Ben

Rebecca, Sarah, Victoria (all Vicky), Caroline.

All boys were called Dave or Andy except the ones called Steve or Mark.

Secondary school mid 90s

Laura, Rachel, Sarah, Katherine, Alison, Joanna, Lindsay

David, Paul, Michael, Graeme, Steven, Gavin, Andrew

Abigail
Alice
Amelia
Chloe
Emily
Gemma
Georgia
Grace
Jennifer
Laura
Lauren
Lucy

3 x Stephanie's and 2 x Paige's in my tutor group alone

Boys were all Josh's, Jack's or Jake's

Mid early 2000's

Girls - Karen, Lyndsey/Lynsey, Nicola, Kelly

Boys - Stephen/Steven, Paul

In my year, out of approx 70 girls, there were 5 Sharons and 3 Joannes.

Among the boys, there were at least 4 Pauls and 3 Davids.

We were born at the end of the 1960s.

Elizabeth, , Claire , Sarah , Theresa , Michelle , Victoria , Debbie
John -Paul , Michael , Paul , James , Nicholas , Richard , Peter , Matthew , Chris
Late 70’s primary

Catherine
Helen
Rachel
Karen
Rebecca
Chris
Stephen
David
Robert