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.

Lynette, Joanne, Siobhan, Justine, Paula.

I’m 56

Sarah /Sara, Caroline, Clare (never Claire), Julia, Emma, Joanna, Louisa/Louise

smart girls boarding school. I’m 56.

Deborah, Janet, Jacqueline, Susan were probably the most popular. I'm 63

Also a surprising number of Catrionas/Katrinas, usually Scottish aristos’ daughters

Mid forties from Scotland: Amy, Rebecca+++, Hannah, Claire++, Sarah+++ and Chloe. Girls only school so no idea about boy's names, sorry

Helen
Sarah
Claire
Joanna / Joanne
Emma
Hannah
Katherine / Catherine / Kathryn
Amy
Laura

Louise as middle name, or Jane, or Katherine

Boys were Paul, Phillip, Mark, Richard, Jonathan,
William

I’m 43

Born in 1990
popular names were Hannah, Hayley and Louise, a lot of the boys had J names (jack, John, Johnathan, James, Jason)

I'm 47 - there were 8 Katies/Katys in my year at secondary school. Quite a lot of James and Daniel among the boys.

Probably Sarah and K/Catherine (late thirties)

Yep to all the above. Late 50s.

Mid forties Jennifer, Catherine and Nicola

Boys - Mark, Paul and Gareth

Sarah and Claire for the girls, Philip and John for the boys. I’m in my 40’s.

Literally all of my siblings names in there. 1975-1988 born

Late 50s, attended mainly RC schools. My secondary school was a girls school.

we had loads of Marys, Bernadettes, Catherines due to being Catholic and in a part of London which at the time had a high population of Irish people.

there was also a lot of Trac(e)ys, Lindas, Karens, Patricias, Janets, Ann(e)s (including me!)

Boys names that were common…..John, Mark, Paul, Kevin, David, Patrick, Martin

Claire, Sarah, Joanne/Joanna, Rachel, Lucy, Nicola, Victoria

Mathew, Jonathan, David, Simon, Ben, Mark
I’m late 40’s

Mid 40s, loads of Joannes, Gemmas and Claires at my school. Boys were Chris, David and James

My friendship group were unusual in that we all had unique names in the school, not just the class/year.

Mid 5Os.
Fiona, 4 of them.
Maria
Geraldine
Ann with or without an e. About 4 of them

All girls school. I’m 51.

Clare/Claire/Clair
Sarah
Joanna/Joanne
Louise
Emma

But then lots of names there was only one of like

Jemima
Iraina
Tessa
Tatiana

For girls - Rachel, Sarah, Helen, Victoria, Louise, Jane, Lisa, Nicola, Joanne, Hayley

For boys - James, Michael, Matthew, Nicholas, Jonathan, Christopher, Andrew, Stephen

Claire, Sarah, Nicola, Mark, Paul, Stephen.

51

I'm mid 30s from the SW of England and we had loads of:

Sarah
Sophie
Amy

James
Andy
Dan

Mid 40s, Claire/Clare (there were 4 in my primary school class) and Sarah. Boys- there were no double names!

I’m 70 - 3 Marys and 2 Susans

Lee
Sarah
Rebecca
Samantha
David
Andrew

Clare/Claire. So many! Also Lynsey/Linsey/Lindsay

Brian for the boys