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[2girls4lou]

What name's were there always more than one of in your year? I was one of 4 Louise's! Also 3 Georgia's, 3 Lucy's, 2 Emma's, 2 Jessica's, 2 Elizabeth's (and that was at a small all girls school with just 50 girls in the year). I decided at a young age my children would have slightly more unique names as I got fed up of being "Louise M" rather than just "Louise!

Sarah, Lauren, Rachael, Jessica

Tom, Mark, Richard

I was one of three Megans. There were two Nicoles (one exclusively called Nikki) and a Christina and a Krystyna. Two Katherines, one a Kathy and one a Kate. A Janna and a Jan. Two Jennys, one who insisted everyone call her Zoey for a year. :o

For boys there were two Johns ad two Scotts.

I was born in 1982 and am American.

I was born in the early 70s...at it's worst the repeat names appeared when I was 11 and in a class of about 30, we had:
Two Becky
Three Nicky
Three Craig
Three Mark

There were inexplicably huge numbers of Nickys throughout the rest of the school too.

Gemma, Emma, Emily, Sarah and lots of Michael's
In my nieces year there are ridiculously lots of Isabelle/Bella

Laura (I think there were at least 7 in our school year of 250)
Catherine and variants
Vicky
Emma
Sarah

Richard (Probably 10/250)
Ben
Lee
Robert
David
Philip

Rachel
Charlotte
Alice
Katie/Kate
Hannah
Sophie
David
Matthew
Mark
Daniel

In my secondary school (1993 onwards) class we had:

2 Kirstys
2 Kellys
1 Kristina
1 Hannah
1 Joy (who was anything but to be around)
1 Emma
1 Shilpa
1 Roisin

3 Bens (out of four 'year groups' we had 13 Bens, which meant one class had four! However three were known as Benjamin and one was known as BJ )
2 Jamies
1 Martyn
2 James
1 Bobby (christened as such)
1 Luke
1 Christopher (nn Kit and the coolest guy in the year)
1 Oscar (nn Ozzie)
and in year 10 we had an Irish Patrick who joined and who was just about all the girls immediate crush :)

Mark, Andrew, Michael, John

Lisa, Emma, Nicola, Lindsey

Sarah
Claire
Joanne
Lisa
Louise
Catherine
Gillian
Nicola
Victoria
Karen
Helen

Guess the decades

I was born in 1978; the v popular names at my school were:

Alison
Laura
Lauren
Kerry
Nicola
Isla
Lynsey

David
Steven
Paul
Cameron
Tom
Kenneth
Kevin
Ewan

I was mid 80's.
I had two Katie's and one Kate in my friendship group.
Lots of Sarah, Vicky, Joanna, Lisa, Samantha and for boys - Craig, Matthew, Mark, Christopher.

High school 1997-2002
Lots of...

Elizabeth
Jennifer
Leanne
Danielle
Michelle
Nicola
Lisa
And about 8000 sarahs!!!

Boys - james / chris / darren / will / tom / oliver

Don't know exactly how many of each but the following were def popular when I was at school (34 now)

Nicola (Nicky)
Kelly
Louise
Sarah
Claire
Rachel
Katie
Joanne (Jo)
Laura

Unusual ones which only had 1 of in whole school (large school 900+ where:

Simone
Fiona
Eve
Denika

Sarah, Rachel, Emily, Jessica, Rebecca, Amy, Renee, Jodie
James, Joel, Ben, William, Sean

I'm 44

Names there were always at least two of

Tracey
Debra/Deborah
Samantha
Nicola/Nichola ( about 5 per class!)
Joanne
Sally/ Sally-Anne
Anita
Annette
Sarah
Lisa
Natalie

Ooh forgot the boys

David ( almost every boy was a David!)
Gary
Lee
Simon
Stephen
Kevin
Jamie
Darren ( again loads of those)
Dean
Christopher ( another really common one)
Andrew
Sean/Shaun
Paul

Can you tell I grew up in Essex?

Just found old school photo!!
To add to earlier list...
Rhys
Stephen/Steven
Russell
Rhiannon/rhian
Gareth
Claire/Clare
(Can you tell I was by Wales...!)

What is the equivalent of this now??
Ds isn't at school yet but at a guess there will be lots of the following??
Isobel/Isabelle/Isabella
Evie
Ava/Eva

Harry
Oliver
George (royal impact?)

In my class the overkill name was Laura -- there were 4 and they always sat together, and there were even more Lauras in other classes of that year.

I was born in 87 and at secondary school was one of 3 Charlottes, I really hated having a popular name!

Other popular names were;

Alexandra
Sarah
Lauren
Katie
Rebecca
Michelle
Emma
Kylie!!

Steven
Jonathan
Michael
Ben
Tom
Richard
Daniel

1989/1990. Mine had loads of Sams and Jasons. Fairly varied asides from these though. Also, most girls had the middle name of either Marie or Louise, I noticed!

Girls: Kerry, Lisa, Tracey and Sharon.

Boys: Paul, Mark, Stephen, Jason and David.

Rebeccas at infant school
Sarahs at junior school
Katies at secondary school
Sarahs at university

When I went to a maternity yoga class when pg with dd1 more than half the class was called Kate, Jo or Sarah.

Lots of Danielle's, Kaitlyn's/Katelyn's/Caitlin's, Hannah's, Emma's, and Jessica's for me. For boys it was Jacob's, Benjamin's, Daniel's and Matthew's.