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.

I’m 30 -

Emma, Amy, Brittany, Laura, Rebecca, Hannah, Sarah, Jessica, Katie

Tom, Alex, Sam, Daniel, Ryan, James, William, Ben, Jack, George

Catherine, Caroline, Lisa, Nicola, Debbie . I'm 62.

edit forgot Jacqueline and Julie

and Alison

Mary, Theresa, Bridget, Susan, Claire, Belinda, Jadwiga, Yana. Convent girls school in the sixties. Mostly we were from Irish backgrounds with a few polish and one or two English.

Sarah, Rachel, Susan, Sharon, Pauline, Lesley, Andrea, Michael, Paul, John, Christopher, Kevin, Anthony, Richard, Stephen and not forgetting Karen!
Aged 56, grew up in Scotland, Catholic school.

Claire, Sarah, Mary. I am 50.

Im in my early 50s, south Wales.

Sarah, Claire/Clare, Joanne, Catherine, Kelly for girls.

Andrew, Richard, Simon , Paul for boys.

Despite being in Wales, I don’t remember many Welsh names in my school apart from one Sian and one Ceri.

Sarah, Claire, Helen, Kirsty, Jo. I'm in my early 50s.

53 Australian

Girls

Sharon. Karen. Elisha. Rachel Rachael.Michelle. Kylie. Eliza. Nicola. Yvette. Nicolette. Naomi. Natalie. Joanne.

Boys.

David. Ben. Ryan. John. Richard. Damian. Joel. Sean. Quentin (single one). Kelvin. Martin.

Gillian and Angela and Mark and Andrew at primary.

At secondary it was Claire, Emma Kerry and Mark and James and Christopher

Late 40s

Julie, Karen, Caroline, Gillian, Nicola, Linda - mid sixties (age, not when I was at school, although, yes, that too now I come to think of it).

Girls: Sarah, Emma, Louise, Katie, Lauren, Charlotte, Rebecca, Rachel

Boys: Chris, Adam, Daniel, Matthew, Ben, Tom, Craig, Joe

I'm late 30s.

36 years old

Laura/Lauren/Lucy, Sophie, Amy, Jessica I'd say were most popular.

Early 50s. I moved from a small town in the North of England to a city in the South East mid secondary school and noticed a difference in some of the most popular names:
Northern town- Sarah, Catherine, Vicky, Louise, Clare, Rachel, Paul, Jonathan, Christopher, Andrew, David. Most common middle names for girls were Louise, Anne and Jane
SE city- Sarah, Catherine, Hayley, Naomi, Kelly, Donna, Sharon, Paul, Gary, Craig, Neil. Not a single Rachel, Louise or David. No one middle name seemed especially common but a few had their mother's maiden name as a middle name which I had never come across before.

Mid 40s….

Gemma, Louise, Claire, Katie, Sarah, Nicola, Hannah…

Ben, Peter, Daniel, Mark, Richard…

Alison
Susan
Catherine
Christine
Helen
Sian
Ruth
Angela
Claire

Andrew
Mark
Peter
Christopher
Michael
David
Simon

I'm 61.

We had three Laurens and three Sophies.

And so many Bens.

51 and Claire, Sarah and Lisa were the most common for girls and neil, david and Lee for boys

54
Gary, Simon, Nicholas
Tracy, Sarah, Karen, Michelle

Early 40s

Rachel, Sarah, Helen

I’m mid 40s.
Girls: Louise (there were four in my primary school class), Sarah, Emma, Nicola, Claire, Catherine, Victoria

Boys: Matthew, Neil, Gary, Christopher, Andrew, David, Daniel, Joseph, Jonathan.

Sarah, Becky, Emma, Laura

Mark, Matthew, Steven, Shaun

I’m 45

Gillian, Helen, Catherine, Jacqueline, Rachel, Alison.
Paul, Stephen, Ian, Simon, Andrew.

(Very) late 50s.

Bethan, Carys, Siân, Rhian, Delyth, Eleri, Nia
Middle names: Wyn, Ann.

Boys: John, Dylan, Gareth, Rhys, Huw, Dewi
Middle names: Wyn, John (usually John Firstname Surname) , Thomas (usually Thomas Firstname Surname)

Was at a Welsh comprehensive in the 1980s.

Karen, Julie, Lynn, Linda, Susan, Alyson, Anne. Bryan, Paul, Stephen, Nigel, Michael, Gary Robert. At school in the 60’s/70’s