Names from your year group at school?

[atthewelles]

Just wondering what you would put under the following categories? Mine would be:

Favourite at the time: Melanie
Favourite now: Alice, Eleanor, Katie, Rosa
Horrible at the time and still horrible: Muriel, Gertrude
Horrible at the time but in fashion now: Elsie
Most Unusual: Mignonne

0 points - Jaxon instead of Jackson.

Fave at the time... Samantha
Fave now .... Lucy, Emma,
Horrible at the time and still horrible ... Stephanie, Vanessa, Angela, Eileen
Most unusual... Eve

Fave at the time: Samantha
Fave now: Aurora
Horrible at time & still horrible: Rhianwen , Louise, Lorraine
Horrible at time, fashionable now: Ruth
Most unusual: Quereimah

Favourite at the time: Katherine
Favourite now: Katherine
Horrible at the time: Eleanor, Keleigh, Sophie, Sarah
Horrible at the time but in fashion now: None!
Most Unusual: None!

Very few girls in our tutor group, mainly made up of boys.

Favourite at the time: Grace
Favourite now: Grace
Horrible then and horrible now: Heather
Horrible at the time and in fashion now: None
Most unusual: Rhiannon or Jaysika

Favourite at the time: Jessica.
Favourite now: Annika.
Horrible then and horrible now: Geane.
Horrible then and fashionable now: Elyse.
Most unusual: Annika (Swedish)

Favourite at the time: Colleen
Favourite now: Claire (best of a bad bunch)
Horrible then and horrible now: Nicola, Heather, Kelly, Linda, Ainsley, Gillian
Horrible then and fashionable now: Fiona?, Emma
Most unusual: Ainsley I think!

(That was the girls, anyway...)

Are we discussing the people or just their names?

Everyone was called Karen or Linda or Susan or Anne Marie.

Oh- Angela was popular too. This was Scotland in the 1960s and 70s.

I honestly don't think we gave names a second thought.

The boys were Gordon or Iain or David and all had nicknames based on their surnames.

I was named after an Aunty and my sister after the midwife !

Favourite at the time: olivia, lucia
Favourite now: lucia
Horrible at the time and still horrible: gaynor, lesley, beverley, joan
Horrible at the time but in fashion now: i can't think of any
Most Unusual: siobhan

Favourite at the time: Lorraine
Favourite now: Kate
Horrible at the time and horrible now: Donna, Michelle, Tina
Horrible at the time but in fashion now: None of them are fashionable now!
Most Unusual: At the time, Kayleigh or Ashleigh!

Everyone's middle name was Louise

Fav at the time shauna
Fav now Anna, Catherine
Horrible then horrible now Cheryl Louise fiona Susan
Horrible then fashionable now rose,
Most unusual Karla, Yvonne, cherie

There were 100s of Lisa, Claire, Paula Gary Steven, laura and Louise

Favourite at the time: Sophie, Sara
Favourite now: Lara
Not going to do the horribles in the very slight chance that someone reads and recognises, but there were none that I thought bleugh to.
Most Unusual: Janicen

Can second Donna and Lesley a being in the 'horrible then, horrible now' category!

Fav then Lindsay
Fav now Zoe
Horrible then & now Patricia
Horrible then, fashionable now Elizabeth
Unusual -renarta

Fav then Susan
Fav now Jane
Horrible then and now Shirley
Horrible then fash now Yasmin
Most unusual Antoinette

Favourite at the time, Natasha.
Favourite now, Natasha.

Can't think of any horrible ones.

Most unusual, andrina.

I had loads of Sarah's and Ruth's in my class in the late 1980's. If I remember correctly there were about 4 of each!

Favourite at the time: Rachel
Favourite now: Estelle
Horrible at the time and still horrible: Lisa, Donna, Tracy, Leanne, Claire
Horrible at the time but in fashion now: Emily
Most Unusual: None, they were all pretty plain/safe

No sure if you mean our personal favourite or society's favourite. I'm answering as if you mean society.

Favourite at the time: Sarah, Emma, Laura
Favourite now: Hannah, Amy, Rebecca
Horrible at the time and still horrible: Not sure about horrible. I'm not keen on Donna or Helen
Horrible at the time but in fashion now: Josephine
Most Unusual: Ophelia

Favourite at the time: Hannah
Favourite now: Hannah, Kimberley, Jennifer
Horrible at the time and still horrible: Sharon, Kirsty, Elisha
Horrible at the time but in fashion now: Georgina, Lucinda
Most unusual: Kizzy, Funkii (I wish that was a joke)

Favourite at the time: Melanie
Favourite now: Zoe or Kate
Horrible at the time and still horrible: Sheena, Janice, Gaynor
Horrible at the time but in fashion now: Safron (?)
Most Unusual: Delia

Favourite at the time: Bryony, Leila
Favourite now: Catherine? There was a dearth of good names in my class!
Horrible at the time and still horrible: Fenella, Faye, Charity, Julia, Janine
Horrible at the time but in fashion now: Anna
Most unusual: Adelene