What were the most common names of your classmates?

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And approximately how old are you?

I’m 40 and there were always multiple Kevins in a class.

In High school it was Kevin again for the boys and Fiona and Catherine for the girls. There were about 4 of each in my class.

Joanne, Claire, Freya and Emily for girls

Randomly had 3 Barnabys in my class although I think that was a weird coincidence, I don't think I've come across an adult Barnaby!

I'm 40 too

Loads of Sarah & Joanne/Joannas in my class

Finished primary school at the start of the 90s

Tracey, Sharon, Lisa, Julie, Steven, Gary, Neil, Simon - I was born in 1969.

Love this.
I’m early 40s

Catherine, Jennifer, Laura, Karen, Tracey, Michelle

Derek, Paul, Brendan, Kevin, Frank, John.

I’ve never met a baby Karen or Kevin

Also Claire was a v popular name!

I'm 59 and there were 5 Traceys in my class, 3 Sarah's, 2 Sharon's, 2 Michelle's. I knew lots of Michael's.

Karen, Julie, Jane, Sarah.

I'm 61 and went to an all girls school.

I like these threads.
I'm late 50s.
Amanda, Elizabeth, Alison, Samantha, Sharon, Melanie, Debbie and Karen were popular girls names in my school
Boys were Julian, Simon, Mark, Gary, Darren, Graham, David, Richard and Paul

I remember a Barbara and a Brenda but they were outliers with older parents.

See also Dennis and Colin.

Early 30s here.

Sarah and Emma were very common for girls, always a few in each class. Hannah too.

Matthew and Christopher for boys. Also, Ross! Which seems to have completely disappeared for babies.

Sarah, Katherine/Katy, Emma, Emily, Sophie, Charlotte, Elizabeth, Alexandra.
Thomas, James, William, Matthew.
I'm early 40s, public school.

Alison
Amanda
Catherine/Kathryn
Debbie
Karen
Jane
Sharon
Tracey

Andrew
David
Gary
Kevin
Mark

Am early sixties

I’m 32, in Canada

When I was growing up we often had multiples of Matthew, Caitlyn, Sarah, Michael, Anna, Amanda

Now in my kids’ primary classes, there’s a lot more variation in names, way fewer instances of overlap in a given class. In a given grade there are multiples of: Aiden, Charlie, Emerson, Jeremy, Madeleine

Oh yes and Jennifer and Rebecca, I went to a tiny village primary and only had 6 other girls in my year, two Rebeccas, two Jennifers, a Joanne and a wild card Clementine 🤣

Yy to Jennifer and Helen too. And Andrew and Steven

Oh, I've just remembered there were two Heathers and two Jennifers in my 1980s secondary school class too.

Same! I’m the same age as you.

There were 5 Susans in my mixed sex class of 32 pupils at Secondary School. I'm in my early 60's.

49, a mix of Lou variations (Louise, Lucy and Lucinda) and a billion Jos (don't remember if they were Joannes or Joannas as they all went by Jo).

33
Girls - Megan, Claire, Charlotte
Boys - Tom, Ben, Dave

I'm 55 from the Midlands. Looking back I remember a LOT of Nickys, Claires and Debbies. Also Tracy, Helen, Justine, Sharon, Sarah, Maxine, Emma, Karen.
The boys were Wayne, Kevin, Darren, Craig, John, David, Michael, Mark.

40s

Girls - Jo, Claire, Louise, Helen, Emma

Boys - Stephen, Matthew, Andrew, Christopher, Daniel

Adam seemed to be popular in my year. At one point there were 3 Adams and 2 Christophers. There were a few Gemmas, Danielles and Jade's

I'm mid 30s and seemed to be the only female whose middle name wasn't Louise or Marie

Im a few years younger but in my first work place we had 6 Sues in a team of 12.

Late 40s.

Catherine, Emma, Tracey, Claire.

Nicholas, Richard, Tom.

Girls - Amy, Sarah, Emma and Rebecca. With Louise or Marie/a as middles. Boys - Thomas, James, Christopher, William. Multiples of all. I’m 38.