When you were at school...

[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!

[OldBeanbagz]

There were several Lisas, Sarahs & Claires at my school but i was in my teens before i met anyone with the same name as me and i've never met anyone since.

I deliberately gave my DD a name that wasn't common but which she didn't have to spell out every time (like i do).

There's no one with the same name as her at her current school (Approx. 400 girls) though plenty of Ellie & Olivias.

[Thurlow]

Louise, Laura (all Laura Jane's!), David, Michael, Andrew.

[sonlypuppyfat]

Dean Mark Craig Sharon Tracy Claire guess what decade I went to school in!

[DebbieOfMaddox]

Helen, Sarah, Catherine (and variants), Jo (mixture of Joannes and Joannas), Clare/Claire, Rachel, Elizabeth (and variants), Michelle, Nicola, Victoria (and variants), Lucy.

Jason, Thomas, Matthew, Christopher, Paul, Jonathan, Dominic, Sean, Philip, Edward.

[Comfysoft]

Lisa
Tracey/Tracy/Tracie
Sarah
Claire/Clare
Nichola/Nicola
Karen
Linda
Julie
Dawn
Helen
Sharon/Sharron
Jane/Jayne

Steven/Stephen
Kevin
Martin/Martyn
Mark
Nigel
James
Daniel
David
Matthew
Andrew

[SantasLittleMonkeyButler]

Three Emma's, also Sarah, Andrew, Leanne, Katie/Katy/Katherine/Catherine, Steven, James (two with the same surname but not related).

[DownstairsMixUp]

Soo many Sarah's! Victoria's, Sophie, Emma's (there were two Emma's just in a year of 26 at my primary school!) Hannah's. Plenty of Thomas, Jack, ben's for boys.

[Nocomet]

Mark
Stephen /Steven
David
Peter
Gareth
John

Helen
Rachel
Susan
Clare Claire
Sarah
Nicola
Diane/a
Linda
Joanne/a
Tracy
Ann/e
More than one Sharon, but not in the same secondary year.

[hardbeingme]

infants; 2 Darrens, 2 Davids, 2 Kevins,

senior; 2 Sophies, 2 Scotts, 2 Emmas, 2 Sarahs, 2 Taras, 2 Roberts, the thing is there were only about 30 kids from a British background in my year - so it was quite a high amount of duplicates, most of the year was of Asian descent and we had three Amandeeps in our tutor group.

[outtolunchagain]

I was born mid sixties, the girls in my class were all called Sarah, Catherine ( various spellings) Susan , Nicola, Rachel, and Alison .

Boys were Ian, Nigel, Mark , Nicholas , and Jeremy.

Ds1 once had to do some exercise at school where they got into groups according to Dad's name,Jeremy was the biggest group!
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[AngelaDaviesHair]

Surprised at how few mentions of Amanda there are. I lived in Amanda Central. Quite a few Emmas, Sarahs and Claires too, a sprinkling of Carolines and Elizabeths (all known as Lizzie), Tracys and Nicolas.

The boys were Stephen, David (loads), Robert, Kevin, Mark and John.

[FelixFelix]

I was born in 1990. Lots of Sarah, Sophie, Jade, Rebecca, Holly, Stacey, Leanne. Everyone had Louise as a middle name. Lots of Matthew, Daniel and Michael!

I've never met anyone else with my name

[tallulah]

At primary the multiple names were
Kim
Teresa
Jackie
Tracy
Karen
Julie
Janet.

Boys were Peter, Ian, Michael, David, Graham and Derek

[Cuxibamba]

Kelsey
Kelly
Jessica
Maria
Samantha

[ChickenMe]

Born mid 70s.

Caroline was THE name at my school. It seems very dated now but Carolina might be nice.

Betting on a resurgence of Jane/Faye/Carla/Laura

[guineapig2014]

We had many Karens and sarahs

[BethDaze]

I think there was 7-10 each of

Sophie's.
Emily's.
Rebecca's.

In my year, which was about 180 girls.

Also more than a few Hannah's, Lucy's, Emma's, Charlotte's, Kate/Cat/Catherines, Abigail's and Elizabeth's.

[GoblinLittleOwl]

Susan,x 2 Carol x 3, Pamela, Patricia, Linda x 2, Christine x 3, Margaret, Jennifer, Sheila, Valerie, Jane , Ann x 2; not all in the same class at the same time but throughout my education.

[consideringadoption84]

Year Group of about 120 (class of 2000/2002 depending on whether people stayed for 6th form):

Laura X 7
Emma X 6
Sarah X 6
Joanne X 4
Rebecca X 3
Claire X 3
Gemma X 3
Lyndsey X 3
Kerry X 3
Rachel X 2
Amy X 2
Hannah X 2
Joanna X 2

David X 5
Andrew X 4
William X 3
Christopher X 3
Ryan X 3
Shaun X 3
Simon X 2
Matthew X 2
Gary X 2

[Spaghettinetti]

I was born in the early 80s. In my year group of about 100, there were:

4 Victorias
2 Sarahs
3 Stephanies
3 Annas
3 Lucys
4 Helens

4 Matthews
3 Richards
4 Davids
3 Bens
3 Adams
5 Davids
3 Thomases
2 Jameses

And there were loads of Jennies in the year below me!

[CitronVert]

I'm a Louise too but the only one in my class. I think at the time it hadn't yet reached peak popularity. I'm 46 and know loads of mid 30s Louises now but none my own age.

When I was at school there were lots of Joannes, Alisons, Sarahs, Karens and Debbies.

[looki]

There was only one of each name in both my primary and secondary schools. Considering we all had very normal names, it has only struck me today after reading this thread, how unusual that is - it was a very small primary (less than ten girls in my year) and 30+ girls in my mixed secondary school.

[looki]

I just remembered the boy's names did double though -

Dennis x 2 (both primary and secondary)
Stephen x 2 (secondary)
Mark x 2 (secondary)

Justin and Paul were popular names in the year ahead of me.

PS this was 80s and early 90s.

[bouncingbelle]

3 Louise's
3 Claire's
2 Jacqueline's
2 Angela's
There was also always an Elaine/Margaret/Jennifer/Michelle in my class. (Child of the mid 70s)

Boys were Steven/paul/mark/James/ Brian x a million

[Galaxymum]

I was born in 1972 - mum was a nurse at a residential hospital which had private and state patients so heard a lot of names. She vowed I would have an unusual name so scoured books......I was the only one in both schools with my name.

Main names:
Joanne
Sarah
Rachel
Lisa
Tracey
Nicola
Sue/Susan

Boys at Primary
Leigh/Lee
Steven

I still haven't met a name twin!