Guess the year based on names...

[Tillyscoutsmum]

Inspired by a thread in baby names (and an overwhelming desire to put off work I'm supposed to be doing!), can you guess the approximate year of birth of a poster based on the most popular names of peers in their class?

So mine. Comp school in the Midlands.

Sarah
Claire
Jenny
Debbie

Paul
Lee
Neil

@Tillyscoutsmum You are much warmer than @LBirch02! I did think as I typed my post that my year group would be hard to guess. It was a Catholic school so there were lots of classic names. There was a Wayne in my class too, to be fair, and a Darren. We were born 1986-87.

1996-1997!

I was going to say late 50s, because of Lisa and Tina

There was a Lisa in my year group! (must have been born around 88/89), and a Tina a couple of years ahead! We also had a Susan and a Ellen, though, I assume they were named after older relatives.

"14:06. GiantKitten

80sMum

I reckon 1956

Good guess! Correct decade. Only a couple of years out.

I was going to say late 50s, because of Lisa and Tina "

GiantKitten, late fifties is correct! We were all born between Sept 1957 and August 1958.

Laura
Rebecca
Rachel
Amy
Emily
Sarah

James
David
Jonny
Kyle
Daniel
Stephen

Try this one!
Margaret, Marjorie, Gladys, Gwendoline, Daffodil, Dorothy, Vera, Virginia, Joyce.

lovingllamaa. 1982?

@80sMum Lots of my grandmother/great aunt names there. Think she was born in 1934...

@lovingllamaa - 1996
@80sMum - your second lust I reckon is 1935

My classmates:

Joanne
Janine
Coral
Anita
Paula
Jackie
Susan
Justine
Christine
Deborah
Elizabeth
Helen
Carole
Lisa
Vanessa

Mark
Philip/Phil
Piers
Matthew
Steven/Stephen
Timothy
Simon
Scott
David/Dave
Tim/Timothy
Alan
Paul

@NeverTrustaRabbit I think yours is late 60s. 67/68?

How about this one?

Mason
Harrison
Jack
Oliver
Henry

Sienna
Amelia
Isabella
Annabel

@Tillyscoutsmum

How about this one?

Mason
Harrison
Jack
Oliver
Henry

Sienna
Amelia
Isabella
Annabel

Born 2011-ish?

Year of birth for me?

Laura
Rebecca
Caroline
Amanda
Victoria
Annette
Stephanie
Katie
Lindsey
Susan
Alison
Natasha

Paul
Richard
Philip
Darren
Matthew
Oliver
Robert
Nicholas

@Tillyscoutsmum - spot on - all born 1967/8!
L

Year of birth

Beth
Kirsty
Danielle
Sarah
Natalie
Miranda
Alison
Angela

Edward
Jamie
Ben
Thomas
Michael
Dave
Phillip
Stuart
Rick
Karl

@Tillyscoutsmum

How about this one?

Mason
Harrison
Jack
Oliver
Henry

Sienna
Amelia
Isabella
Annabel

For me, they could be a time from 1997 -2004 ish.

I'm plumping for a turn of the century 200/01

@WeDidntMeanToGoToSea I'd go about 71/72 for yours?

[quote Tillyscoutsmum]@WeDidntMeanToGoToSea I'd go about 71/72 for yours?[/quote]
Right decade, few years out :)

NotMyCat, that's a mixed bag! 1983?

Bit later on my second list @StoneColdBitch @NeverTrustaRabbit They're all 2013/14

@Tillyscoutsmum

Inspired by a thread in baby names (and an overwhelming desire to put off work I'm supposed to be doing!), can you guess the approximate year of birth of a poster based on the most popular names of peers in their class?

So mine. Comp school in the Midlands.

Sarah
Claire
Jenny
Debbie

Paul
Lee
Neil

They are 70 and 80s names so hard to narrow down to an exact year.

@NotMyCat I'd go 90s I think. 94/95?

@WeDidntMeanToGoToSea so close!

Do we think Sarah is probably the name that spans the most generations??

@80sMum

Try this one! Margaret, Marjorie, Gladys, Gwendoline, Daffodil, Dorothy, Vera, Virginia, Joyce.

1940s and possibly in Wales? Mind you the Margaret and Marjorie could be born 1920s.

@Tillyscoutsmum

Do we think Sarah is probably the name that spans the most generations??

I'd say the male names from the new testament are some of the ones that have stayed around through different decades.