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 mid 30’s - Hannah’s, Kate/Katies, Charlotte’s, Gemma’s and Laura’s were legion.

Lots of the following - Mark, Paul, Gillian, Tracy, Steven, Claire, Susan. I'm in my 50s.

Boys:

James
Ben
Mark
Chris
Paul
Sean/Shaun

Girls:

Sarah
Claire
Kate
Victoria
Nicola
Laura
Lisa

Edited to add - I'm 43.

Girls - Chloe, Caitlin, Leah, Molly, Amy, Ellie, Lucy, Olivia, Lauren
Boys - Ben, Alex, Adam, Cameron, Jordan, Matthew, Joe, Sam

I'm 23

66 here..
Wendy
Karen.
Jacqueline.
Margaret
Gillian.

Michael
David.
John
Kevin
Steven/ Stephen

I’m 36 - Amy, Stephanie, Laura, Katie boys it was Paul, Anthony, Mark, Christopher

Steven. Everybody in my year was called Steven. Even the girls.
Except for the ones that were called Susan 😁

I'm 69

I am 45.
Girls- Clare/Claire, Catherine/Katherine/Kathryn
Boys- Kevin, Colin/Colum/Colm, Paul

I'm 43. Girls were Sarah, Emma, Kelly, Claire.

Boys were Steven, Ben, David, Daniel

Mid 50's
Tracey
Sharon
Susan
Julie
Karen
John
Michael
Ian
Stephen
Gary

I’m 44

Girls were Katie, Sarah, Charlotte, Claire/Clare, Laura.

Boys were Andrew, Matthew, Robert, David, Thomas. Lots of Bens too.

I was so jealous of the Sarahs, always found it such a pretty name!

I'm 62, common girls names were Margaret, Anne-Marie, Karen, Jacqueline, Angela. Boys John, Michael, Kevin, Thomas, James. Catholic school, East end of Glasgow.

Lisa, Joanne, Christine, Amanda, James, Matthew, Paul, Andrew

50 - username is real name; as you might imagine, I stood out like a sore thumb!

I’m mid 30s and I went to an all girls school.
In my class there were 4 girls called Becky, 3 girls called Katie and 3 girls called Charlotte.
In my year, the other popular ones were Amy, Sarah, Jessica and Samantha.

I’m a year younger and the names were pretty much the same for me (I’m one of them)

Catherine in various spellings, there were 5 in my class at high school and another two or three in other classes.

There were also a couple of Kathleens - can you tell it was an RC girls' school?

I'm late 50s there were also a few with Tracy, Alison, Julie in their names, although it did seem like it was almost the law that your middle name was 'Louise'.

Lisa, Sarah, Joanne, Peter, Mike, Dave, Claire, Donna, Lee, Emma, Sharon, Tracey,

I’m 33.
Megan, Jessica, Rachel for girls.
Matthew and Tom for boys.

I worked in childcare in the late .80s early 90s Charlene was really popular was Neighbours to blame sometimes a Kylie would pop up and I once looked after toddler twins scott and Jason 😀

I’m 57
Diane
Sharon
Tracy
Lynn
Julie
Alison

Ian
Dean
Paul
Mark
Stephen
Charles

I’m 54, as follows:

Sarah, Lisa, Emma, Rachel, Jane

Steven, Darren, Lee, Craig, Paul, John

all girls school : Charlotte, Harriet, Cathrine , Emma, Louisa , Sophia, Claire.

Reading the thread is very interesting. With people putting their ages, it shows the clear but steady changes of popular names through the decades.
Interesting how some names last the distance and others are very much of their time.
Born in the mid sixties, I have five friends named Alison. My own name is one that has remained popular, but I don't know anybody called Alison who is much younger or much older than me. I don't know why - it's a pretty name.
I'm curious to see whether the standard 60s names come round again, like the names of the war generations have.

Yes, the Elsies and Alfies must be about to move over now. The first ones will be nearly finishing high school.

Waiting for some baby Dianes, Wendys, Sharons, Colins, Alans.... and maybe Lee won't die out entirely.

I'm mid 50s. There were loads of Carolines at my grammar school. 4 in one form. I still like the name now.