If you were at school in the 1970s, what were some of your classmates names. I think they will be the next names to make a comeback.

[waltzingparrot]

I don't think it will be too long before there will be loads of babies called....

Jackie
Susan
Debbie
Linda
Sharon

Karen, Julie, Elaine, Jackie, Jessica, Jane, Lucy, Dorothy, Wendy and Shirley. Annette, Debbie, Vanessa, Margaret, Linda, Belinda, Janice.

Barry, Steven, Peter, Wayne, Kevin, Mark, Alan, Andrew, Harvey, Russell.

Catherine

Samantha, Claire, Joanna, Nicola, David, Mark, Robert and James were popular names where I went to school.

Russell
Nicholas
Matthew
John

School from mid 70s on. Nicola, Anna, Michelle, Helen, Rachel (lots), Jennifer, Catherine, Lisa, Elizabeth, Amanda for girls. Boys were Robert, Simon, Michael, Stephen, Philip, Paul, Christopher, Nicholas.

Elizabeth
Natalie
Michelle

I forgot Joanne, lots of them, and Anthony for boys!

1970s I was in school.. Ost popular girls name was Karen. (7 in my class). Also Lesley, Kay, Maxine, Alison, Katherine, Tracey, Gillian, Lisa, June, Julie. Boys were Keith, David, Kenneth, Robert, James, Alan

I was born in the 70’s, so primary school in the 80’s, and everyone had new testament / christian saints names. But that could have the result of Catholic schooling.

@Kidneybingo

I forgot Joanne, lots of them, and Anthony for boys!

Ah yes. We have four tonys in our close circle!

In my year at secondary school, out of approximately 70 girls, there were five Sharons, four Joannes and three Karens. Out of a similar number of boys, there were at least four Pauls,four Andrews, & three Kevins.

Anne Marie, Christina, Louise, Kim, Tracey, Alison, Lizzie, Wendy, Jason, Gary, Robin, Hugh, Justin, Martin.

my primary class had a joanne, sharon, vivienne, philippa,barry, ian, alan, paul, andrew.

I started school in 1977 so complete 70's child. Classmates names I can remember:

Lisa
Lucy
Andrea
Claire
Fiona
Leanne
Rachel
Karen
Kirsty
Cathy
Suzanne
Helen
Joy
Katy
Gabby

Frank
Martin
Stephen
Philip
Gerad
Robert
Gary
Tim
Carl
Darren
Anthony

Fascinating how you can age people by their names. My mum was born in 1940, her classmates had names like Doris, Maureen and Joan and My ds is 55, her friends were Michelle, Carol and Sharon, Darren and David My ds is 14 he knows Lily, Iris and Martha, Beau, Kai and Frankie. Some names are evergreen like James and Thomas.

I think Helen is long overdue a revival - very pretty

Fiona, Louise, Samantha, Justine, Sarah, Frances

Gosh these names are bringing back some faces to my mind from a long long time ago.

There was at least one of all the following in each of my classes at school (started school age 5 in 1963)
Diane, Karen, Linda, Jackie, Sharon, Lorraine, Susan, Jane, Christine, Carol
David, Kevin, Michael, Keith, Peter, Martin, John, Paul, Robert, Alan

Just based on colleagues, friends etc from uk born in the 70s:
Tracey
Nicola

Nick
Simon

More late 80s here....

Donna, Hazel, Michelle, Lisa, Clare, Sonia, Sharon, Julie, Julia, Lisa, Belinda, Tammy, Mandy, Adele,
Colin, Mark, Jason, Lee, Martin, Paul, Matthew, Darren, Steven, Ian, Conrad, Graham, Jonathon, Michael, Wayne

Helen is due a come back for sure.

I was at primary till 74. Mine was full of Jackies and Sharons. Nigel and Geoffrey were the most popular boys names.

I suppose it's the same for every generation, but not many of my generation's names look appealing baby names.

Nicola
Caroline
Angela
Melissa
Suzanne

Daniel
Michael
Simon
Wayne
Darren
Matthew
David

I was at primary in early 1970's. Popular names were
Amanda/Mandy
Karen
Tracy
Lisa

Kelly
I can't believe no-one has said Kelly yet!

That’s my generation. All girls school, absolutely loads of Jos - variations on Joanna, Joanne, Josephine. There were 5 Jos in my class! Quite a few Claire / Clares, Julie /Julias, Catherine /Kathleens and a decent smattering of Michelle’s.
Oddly, I didn’t know many Emmas or Karens but meet many women my age now with those names.