regional and generational influences

[dementedma]

if you were to name your dc's five best friends, what would their names be? it will be interesting to see if we can work out regional, generational and even "class" factors. For DS, the youngest of my 3 DCs, his five best friends would be:
Guy
Findlay
Angus
Andrew
James

The first group were for 15 year old ds.

Dd 5 would have

Oliver
Ted
Ryan
Herbie
Lyra

Hmm

DS
Will
Christian
Hugh
Sebastian
James

DD
Olivia
Francesca
Christabel
Jess
Imogen

Me
Jo
Jane
Mary-Anne
Annie
Camilla

My Dc are at uni so their friends are from all sorts of different regions. My own best friends (in my town) at the moment are probably:

Lesley
Jackie
Lisa
Julie
Julia

and male friends

Matt
Mark
Shaun

...OK, maybe I don't have 5 male friends that are "my" friends.

Cooper
Adam
Cian x 2
Eoghan

There is a definite Scottish flavour among my children's friends' names - Morven, Callum, Fraser, Brodie, Scott, Jamie. Also more standard names like Grace, Hannah, Eva, Daniel, Jack and Cara.

Demented- my nephew is Sam, DS1 has three in his class, DS2 one. There is at least one in every class too!

My 9 year old ds friends are

Elias
Simon
Owen
Lola
Anastasia

Ds age 5
Rupert
Sarah
Jasmine
Eliza
Nelson

Harper, Eliza, Teddy, Teddy, Harriet

Noah
Essie
Antonia
Joshua
Jacob

love all these. I think age is definitely a factor.
kenandbarbie are you in ireland?

for my older dds (now in their mid to late 20's - gulp) friends' names are:
Molly, Lucy, Kirsten, Amy, Robyn

Tammy, Kirsten,Beatrice, Bego, Heather

@greeneyedgeek83 i'm going to guess you are in Hertfordshire

@zebrakid71 Surrey?

@escape Wiltshire?

DD
Cora
Darci
Lily
Lottie
Bronwyn

DS
Tomos
Madison (Maddie)
Georgina
Joseph
Ben

Mark, Adam, Miles, Harry, Will

For me growing up:
Karen
Karyn
Jenny
Lucy
Alison

For DC where we live now
Euan
Dillon
Ethan
Ade
Lewis
Eleanor
Alice
Christina
Clodagh
Kirsten
Evie

For DC where we used to live
Diego
Harrison
Hayden
Carson
Amy
Ella
Nikolett
Maci
Grace
Charlotte
Karley
Avery

Looking at those lists I’m not sure mine is massively obvious in terms of geography, although probably is in terms of age!

For the DC, I think the boys names are more geographically outing than the girls names.

@dementedma I think you may be similar age to me - I have several friends called Karen - 2 of which have/had partners called Paul!! I also have 2 friends Karen with partners called John.

Jamie
Josh
Jack
Tom
Ellie

The most popular names when DS in primary school (won't give his friends names now as more 'one-off' names - he's 17.

mid 50's applepudding?

Ollie
Oliver
Oliver
Benjamin
Dorothy

DDs friends are

Poppy
Chloe
Lucy
Dylan
Kayden

DS who is 20 has friends;
Kieren x2
Callum
Joe
Connor x2
Sam
Matthew

DD who is 18 has friends;
Amy
Emily x2
Georgia
Ellie
Sarah
Natalie

(DS baby swimming class)

William
Arthur
Sunny
Victoria
Freddie
Ari

Marmite - pre-schooler, London or Home Counties?

DS (2):

Lukian
Aleks
Noah
Lyra
Vula

(Hint: we are not in the UK)