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!

Multiples of:

Rachel (5 in one class at one point!)
Charlotte
Elizabeth
Laura
Jennifer/Jenny
Leanne/Leighan/Liane
Alex
Sarah
Emily

Across a year of around 50. All born 90/91. Also a lot of Louise, Jade, Jane, Victoria and Marie for middle names.

Claire/Clare, Lucy, Kerry, Sarah.
Matthew, Jonathan, Chris, Nicholas.

dd1s year group has been full of Joshes and Ryans and Megans and Lauras, dd2s seems to be Sams and Imogens/Isobels/Ellies and Megans.

Karen, Helen, Gillian/Jill, Paula, Victoria, Nicola, Trac(e)y, Claire, Donna

Mark, David, Simon, Paul, Glen, Andrew, Gary, Darren, Christopher

I was one of 6 (yes six) Sarahs in my year group at primary school (total = 33 children). We had 2 Roberts and 2 Richards, but no other repeat names.

All through school, uni, work I have been surrounded by:
Catherine/Katherine
James
Mark
Sarah
Emma
Louise/Louisa
Hayley/Hayleigh
Shabana (I live in a diverse area)
Preeti (as above)
Mohammed (as above but such a popular name I think it's every year)
...I did some trawling and yes, all in the top 20 for my birth year!

Born mid 70s, Catholic convent school on N. Ireland

Sinead (x 6)
Cara
Joanne
Claire
Donna
Brenda
Orla
Michelle
Niamh
Fiona
Sarah/Sara

There were two Lisas, two Debbies and two Nicolas in my class, and umpteen Stevens and Marks.

Tracey
Sarah
Louise
Chris
Paul

Tracy, Sharon, Jane, Debbie and boys were Stephen, Carl, Jason and Stephen.

Catherine/Kathryn/Cathryn/Catharine - 5 in one class and another couple in the same year, alongside a couple of Kathleens. Fun for the teechears when names started to be shortened to Cathy/Kathy.

Louise, well it seemed like it was the law for every third girl born between 1965 and 1975 to have Louise as a middle name.

Deborah (never Debra) there were a couple and a couple of Jacquelines, Alisons and Janes.

in my school year group the names that came up repeatedly were Gillian, Catherine/Kathryn, Lisa, Denise, Caroline. I'm late 30s.

I've never met anyone else with my name, which I hated at school, I so wanted to have a name that someone else had too.

boys in my year all seemed to be called Steven, David and Paul.

There were hundreds of Carolines in my high school year. One of the classes had 4 of them

Born late 70s.

There were 80 kids in my year at primary sschool. Of those:

4 x Rachel
3 x Emma
3 x Michelle
2 x Joanne
2 x Nicola
Also a Chantelle and a Chanelle

Also 3 x David, 3 x Paul, 2 Darren, 2 Jason

Claire
Sophie
Rachel
Rebecca
Amy
Louise

Looking at it that way, I was one of the only girls not to have a second initial!

Was at school in the late 80's early 90's, populate names were:

Sarah
Claire
Lisa
Rebecca
Victoria
Emma

Emma
Gemma
Sarah
Victoria
Claire

Adam
Ben
Kevin
James
Daniel

I left secondary school in 2003

Loads of Sarahs and Claires. Joanne/Joanna was also very popular as was Vicky and Becky. I was born late 70s