Names you went to school with

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Quite a few Neil’s & Duncan’s when I was at school

Plus Angela’s & Debbie’s, I don’t meet any babies called that now at toddler group !!

Tracey/Tracy, Sarah, Donna, Zoe, Lisa

Craig, Mark, Simon, Ben, Scott, Gary

Started school early 80's

Phew! . Didnt really want to change it , . Ive used it as an internet name since the year internet was invented ( nearly!) at least since the early 90's anyway . it kind of feels like my own name now!

Which reminds me ( thinking how names and meanings change.. we had at least two girls called Gaynor- always known as Gay - in our school also.. no one calls their daughters that any more . also Fay

Danielle, Amy, Rebecca (Becky), Rachel, Abigail, Katie, Sophie, Charlotte, Carly.

Nathan, James, Jamie, Ben, Chris, Tom, Daniel, Alex.

Out of approx 70 girls in my year, 5 were called Sharon. I’m guessing there were fewer than 5 babies named Sharon in the whole country last year.

Rachel, Sophie, Rebecca, Emily, Emma, Katie, Charlotte, Joanne/Joanna, Debbie, Sarah, Lisa, Kelly, Jenna, Jenny, Beth, Jane, Lizzie, Tina, Tracey, Marie, Maria, Annie, Holly, Melanie, Louise, Lucy, Jessica, Victoria, Nicola, Donna, Anna, Brooke, Chloe, Eve, Amy, Laura, Claire, Abigail, Catherine, Zoe

Aaron, Sean, Nick, Chris, Alex, Matt, Gavin, Paul, Tom, Anthony, Sam, Martin, Peter, Ashley, Richard, Andrew, Freddie, Robert, Robin, William, Scott, David, John, James, Harry, Elliott, Ralph, Kevin, Stuart, Tim, Mark, Justin, Ben, Ross, Brian, George, Max, Jason

Vicky. Carmel. Dawn. Leah. Toni.

Clair/Clare/Claire's

Tracey's (no Sharon's )

Robert's

Daniel's

Born end of the 70s

Sarah and Steven/Stephen, all other names were a one off.

DS1 had 3 Bens and 3 Lucy's in his class at infant school.

All three DC have had more than 1 Emily in their year.

Loads of Lauras, Rachels and Claires. I went to an all girls school.

The boys school had an awful lot of Pauls and Christophers if memory serves.

Joanna, Jane, Victoria, Donna, Eleanor, Sarah, Karen, Ruth, Rachel, Michelle

Matthew, Daniel, David, Edward, Ben, Tom, Jonathan, Richard, Phil, Kevin

Katherine, Catherine, Kathry, Katie, Samantha, Sarah, Rachel

Matthew,Chris,Sean/Shaun,Lee,Kieran Rebecca

Daniel

Claire, Danielle, Laura, Amanda, Natalie, Emma, Sarah, Hayley, Kelly, Samantha, lisa, Kayleigh, Joanne, Alison.

David, Paul, Michael, Steven & Andrew
Karen, Nicola, Tracey, Deborah, Alison

Stephanie, samantha, Shirley, Amy

Mark, David, stewart, allan

Julie, Amanda, Rachel, Joanne, Katherine, Alison, Hayley, Emma, Melanie, Karen, Sharon, Michelle, Sarah, Nicola, Rebecca, Angela.

Steven/Stephen, John, Lee, Mark, Carl, Daniel, David, Matthew, Christopher, Richard, James.

Started primary school in the mid seventies. Obviously parents were less imaginative then when it came to their children's names back then.

Angela, Linda, Joy, Deborah, Jacqueline, Elaine, Maureen, Sarah, Claire.

Nigel, Derek, Alan, Clive, Robert, Richard, David, Duncan, Peter.

Proper mid 20th century type names.

Here are some names of people I went to school with-
Girls:
Jaquey
Jacinta
Marnie
Judith
Hattie
Harriet
Linder
Naomi
Beth

Boy:
Elliot
Jacques
Ben
Angus
Nolan
Rey
Jet

Phylis, Maureen, Sheila, Susan, Marylin , Trevor, Kenneth, John, Kelvin, Peter. I can still remember most of my primary school class, even though it was 60 years ago. Can’t remember whT I had for breakfast though.

A friend of mine who taught in a Sheffield primary school in the 1990s once had a Keeley, a Kayleigh, a Kylie, a Karley and Kelly in his class. He really struggled year to get their names right

Helen, Louise, Joanne, Sharon, Amanda, Samantha, Paula, Karen, Rachel, Hayley,

Robert, Craig, Steven, Stuart, Andrew, Michael, Richard, Carl, Sean, Russell, Paul,

Born early 70's

Claire (several of them), Frances, Lauren, Leanne, Alexandra, Emma, Megan, Rachel, Nicola, Carly, Sophie.

Andrew, Gary, Mark, Robert, James, Neil, Anthony.

Went to secondary school from 1995 onwards.

Emma/Emily, Sophie, Joanna, Rebecca, Alexandra, Kate, Sarah

Hugh, Rupert, Guy, Tom, Johnny, Matt, Will, Robert, Sebastian

Declan. I haven't met a single Declan since

Names that cropped up a lot in classmates:

Girls:
Jessica
Alice
Rachel
Sarah
Heather
Rosie
Nicole
Nicola
Danielle
Melissa
Chloe
Sophie
Hannah

Boys:
Andrew
Richard
Daniel
Matthew
Ben
Thomas