What were the most common names of your classmates?

[ABowlOfPorridge]

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.

My first and middle name have been mentioned a lot on this thread.

30s - Eleanor, Charlotte, Laura, Hayley, Emma, Rebecca

I’m late 40s and grew up in London.

For girls, it was Emma, Louise, Sarah, Michelle, Lisa, Joanne, Claire, Catherine, Katie, Karen, Amanda.

For boys, Michael, Mark, Paul, Daniel.

Sarah Louise Emma Claire - I’m 44

Born 1981. Gemma, Claire, Rebecca, Daniel, Owen, Jessica, Katie - all at least two kids in my year with these names.

In my 50s

Jason
Simon
Richard
David
Ian
Andrew
Christopher
Stephen
Paul
Gary

Julie
Karen
Anne
sarah
Claire
Judith
Julie
Michelle
Caroline
Jennifer
Susan
Alison

Late 1970s - Susan, Caroline, Gillian, Fiona, Grant, Steven , Scott.

Lauren, Beth, Claire, Laura, Katie, Liz, Gemma, Becky, Emma, Helen, Rachel, Joanne.

Ben, Andy, Mike, Tom, Chris, Joe, Stuart, Johnny, Rob, Josh, Richard.

Late 30s.

Mid forties - Claire, Kelly, Laura, Steven, Andrew, Dean

Early 50s and from Northern England here.
Most common girls names in my year were Debbie, Karen, Sharon, Joanne, Tracey, Louise, Alison, Jane, Sarah and Claire. Outliers were Margaret, Florence and Wendy.
Boys names: Paul, Darren, Michael, Lee, Kevin, Andrew, Richard and Wayne. Outliers were Brian, Roy and Ray. Lots of boys were named after their dads, including my brother, whose name isn't on that list.

Fiona, Karen, Lesley, Elaine, Susan
Stuart, David, Scott, Andrew, Calum

Scotland, I’m 58

60s

Susan
Anne
Alison
Elizabeth
Catherine
Caroline
Claire

If you weren't called Susan then your sister definitely was.

I’m 39. Never knew any Kevins. Multiple Paul’s and Hayley’s though. And nearly every girl had the middle name Louise, myself included.

The most common girls’ names I remember from school were Susan, Jane, Sarah, Caroline, Catherine and Elizabeth.

The boys were called Simon, Peter, David, Stephen and John.

I’m in my 60s.

Sarah
Emma
Kate/Catherine
Rebecca/Becky
Rachel

Michael
David
James
John/Jonathan
Paul
Peter

All 49 or 50 this year.

I'm forty.

Sarah, Emma, Laura, and Sophie were common for girls.

For boys it was probably: James, David, and Lee.

I may be forgetting some.

My own forename is one of those I've mentioned.

Girls
Lucy
Hannah
Emma/Emily
Harriet
Rebecca
Catherine/Katherine
Laura
Sarah

Boys
James
Ben
Rory
Jack
Jonathan (and versions)
George
William

30s

I love reading these, especially the classic older ones. All kids nowadays seem to have silly ‘ie’ names.

All the usual 80’s names and randomly 5 Charlene’s. This was secondary. So strange I’ve never met another Charlene as an adult!

Megan and Lauren, plus a lot of Jessicas. My sister's year had 3 Jennifers

I can't remember the boys at all

Early/mid 40s

Alison
Sarah
Helen
Rebecca
Claire
Jo
Vicky

Mark
Stuart
Julian
Gary
Richard
Martin

(late 40s)

Andrew, Robert, John, Ian, Jim.

Heather, Linda, Patricia, Ann, June, Christine, Sandra.

1950s. Scotland.

Primary school in the 60s. 7 girls - 2 x Elizabeth, 2 x Anne, 3 x Carol

25 boys - 4 x John, 3 x Andrew, 3 x David, 3 x James, 2 x Alan. Teacher always had to use forename and surname.

Clare/Claire and Paul's all round (early 40s)

Every fucker in my year was called Claire, and now all my kids friends mums are also called Claire.

I'm in my sixties.
Primary:
Susan x 2, plus a Suzanne, Gina x 2
Stephen x 2, Michael x2, not too many duplicates in my very cosmopolitan London primary.
Secondary
4x Susan, 3x Debbie
Outside school most guys I met in my teens were Mick, Mike, Mark,Nick, Dave, Steve, Paul, John and Andy. Girls were Sarah, Jane, Linda/Lyn, Jackie, Mandy, Karen/Karin