How many people with the same first name as you did you go to school with?

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In primary school , I was in with 2 others who had the same first name as me.

None, either in school or any job I've had. Have met people with my name though.
Same goes for our son - he's 18 and no one in any of his schools has had the same name as him .

You will have heard both names too.

Primary school 0

Secondary school 1

None in my primary and only one in secondary but in another year to me.
Very popular name now though 😊

None. I'm mid 30's and I've never met another one over age 10. It's now the UK's most popular girls name so I'm sure you can guess what it is and its popularity.

Zero. :(

One unfortunate other in primary whose parents obviously shared the same taste in hideous monikers as mine.

One! All through school and uni
It’s more popular now, maybe peaked 5-10 years ago

I have never met another human being with my name. Only dogs.

None. My name is really common but at primary school and two secondary schools there wasn't another one that I can remember. Definitely not in my year/class.

I think it's because I was born in 1970 but my name had already peaked ten years before. Apparently it was the most common name (or one of them) in the USA between 1950 and 1970 so it wasn't a popular choice in 1970.

I don't feel like I have an owlwan's name though! It's not Bernadette or Breda!

4 in my year at school but I have only ever met one other . Oddly she is also about the same age.

Nobody and have rarely ever met anyone with my name. I'm 62

Everyone in my class at school was called Catherine, Sarah or Nicola, with a sprinkling of Susans, Sharons, Karens, Julias, Traceys and Emmas.

I hated being the only one of me, but don’t mind so much now. I’ve met two others in my life, both with the abbreviated form (which I use) not the full form of the name.

3 of us in my form at secondary school had the same name (spelled 3 different ways) and I think there were another 2 or 3 on my year group as well.

None in my class
1 girl a couple of years below me

@MrsSchadenfreude I also had those same girls with me at school. Except for the Julia's. Many, many, many Julie's but only one Julia all the way to adulthood. That's me.

I've known of one other as an adult.

Primary school - none.
High school - none.
Uni - none.

In 25 years I've taught one, who was named after me when I taught their sibling.
I've met one other as an adult.

Conversely, there were 4 of DD2's name in her class and 6 in her year in primary school. Ooops.

I never knew anyone with my name until recently when a little girl at playgroup had the same name as me. And I don't have an odd name, I have quite a traditional name but it's just not very common.

4/5 . Very popular name for my generation but it has never bothered me

There were 5 of us in my year at secondary school (none at primary). Two different spellings though.

None and I have only ever met one other person with the same first name as me in my 54years.

We were both waiting in an optician's waiting room and we both stood up when our name was called. I was also the only other person she had met with the same Christian name.

One in my year at school at lower, middle and upper.

Sorry I mean one other apart from me.

2 of us at school, 4 in college on my course
Rarely meet anyone with my name now, it’s not uncommon or popular

I was the only one

In secondary I was one of 4 in my form named Claire. 3 of us had the same middle name.

As an adult in work I have actually only worked with one other., though she has left my workplace now. She was about 10 years younger than me. I'm surprised I haven't come across more really, as it was a very popular name on the 70s. Second most popular girls name in the UK the year after I was born, 6th a decade later.

Can't say it ever bothered me particularly to be one of several.