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Which year do you associate these names with?

107 replies

ClassYear · 24/06/2022 17:36

Prompted by a discussion with a friend, If there was a class of primary school children with these names, approximately what year would you think they'd been born in?

George
Kevin
Ian
Sandra
Sarah
Sharon
Karen
Patrick
Barry
Heather
Claire
Irene
Paul
Stephen
Claire
Anthony
Andrew
Graham
Jennifer
Caroline

OP posts:
blitzen · 24/06/2022 19:32

I'm going to say 1972 born. But Irene and George are anomalies!

blitzen · 24/06/2022 19:33

Oh just rtft! 1984?! What?!!!

that1970shouse · 24/06/2022 19:36

ClassYear · 24/06/2022 17:43

Now that I'm looking at school photo, there was also a Mark and a Nicholas. No David.

1970s then

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tiredanddangerous · 24/06/2022 19:40

I wouldn't have said they're all from the same year. Sandra and Irene are older than Claire and jennifer.

mizzo · 24/06/2022 19:41

I was going to say 80's, with the exception of Irene I went to school with all of those.

Spanielsarepainless · 24/06/2022 19:44

1962/3

HundredAcreW00d · 24/06/2022 19:46

1980

notangelinajolie · 24/06/2022 19:47

1960

Pumasonsatsumas · 24/06/2022 20:09

1972

Luredbyapomegranate · 24/06/2022 20:09

I’d have said about 1970 from my own experience, although Sandra and especially Irene belong to an earlier era.

But I lived in Scotland a few decades ago and naming trends were very behind England. I don’t think that will be true now.

cdba88 · 24/06/2022 20:20

60's, some are more 80's like Caroline, Claire, Jennifer

Chakraleaf · 24/06/2022 20:20

1965-1975

RollOnWinter · 24/06/2022 20:22

Late 50s. I was born in 1959 (but my name isn't on there)

TheYearOfSmallThings · 24/06/2022 20:23

1970

1000Pieces · 24/06/2022 20:24

ClassYear · 24/06/2022 18:06

Interesting range of responses. Thank you for replying.

The children in question were all born in 1984 and attended a Catholic school in Scotland.

Wow. That's astonishingly late to me. (I was born before that, and those mostly seem like names from either my parents' generation, or at least a few years older than me.)

Having said that, I'm from London, and we had a huge mix of ethnicities and nationalities, so far fewer 'British' names.

Drywhitefruitycidergin · 24/06/2022 20:25

1974-1979 - most of those in my school girls names older than me and boys in my year.

TheYearOfSmallThings · 24/06/2022 20:26

Oh it was 1984!

I'm surprised Sandra and Sharon were still being chosen then, not because they aren't nice names, but they were surely out of favour by then.

BlackeyedSusan · 24/06/2022 20:31

I was going to say mid to late sixties birth perhaps a little earlier. there were no sandras in my classes in the seventies. I have a cousin sandra who is older than me by quite a bit

vinoandbrie · 24/06/2022 20:44

1973 born

MadKittenWoman · 24/06/2022 20:49

I'm in there, so 1962.

underneathleaf · 24/06/2022 20:49

I was born and raised in Scotland within a couple of years of 84 and still would have guessed around 1960. The only Irene I knew was 40 years older than me. Andrew and Claire were popular enough names though. George strikes me as very English. Re naming trends being behind in Scotland I've never noticed this?! The people I went to school with had very similar first names to people my age I've since met in England.

FayCarew · 24/06/2022 20:59

George - 2005
Kevin - 1961
Ian - 1965
Sandra - 1958
Sarah - 1964
Sharon - 1960
Karen - 1963
Patrick - 1950
Barry - 1958
Heather - 1961
Claire - 1970
Irene - 1952
Paul - 1965
Stephen - 1966
Anthony - 1947
Andrew - 1953
Graham - 1956
Jennifer - 1968
Caroline - 1962

FayCarew · 24/06/2022 21:03

I didn't read the OP properly but if it was a school class, I'd say early to mid-1960 births, maybe1962

notgreatthanks · 24/06/2022 21:07

1970

Ellmau · 24/06/2022 21:08