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

271 replies

TazzyDrunk · 04/01/2020 15:45

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

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Bythebeach · 04/01/2020 18:18

None
I have never met anyone with my name.

cptartapp · 04/01/2020 18:19

Not a single person in the whole of my school days. It's a very 70's name, but not that unusual.
Then I did my nurse training and there were three of us in a group of thirty. All spelt differently.

Hepsibar · 04/01/2020 18:23

4 of us!

daisypond · 04/01/2020 18:28

Two others in my class at primary school. It’s a name of its age - very dated now.

StylishMummy · 04/01/2020 18:36

Primary 0
Large secondary 1
Since then 0

StrawberryDreamX · 04/01/2020 18:38

None. I don't know anyone who has the same name as me.

Thecazelets · 04/01/2020 18:39

None all through primary, secondary and university. One of those Victorian feminised male names and not common at all for my generation.

A prettier variant is now fairly popular with under-5s though so I am constantly whipping my head round in shops to find it's a parent calling their toddler!

topcat2014 · 04/01/2020 18:40

None, and even in the workplace is has been rare.

RiftGibbon · 04/01/2020 18:41

At primary school, one other girl had the same name as me.
In secondary school, I was close friends with someone of the same name.
Since then, I haven't met anyone else, but I know that they're out there!

Ikeameatballs · 04/01/2020 18:45

None.

It’s never been a top 100 name and I rarely hear it in the UK though it is more popular abroad.

I like my name but I wasn’t bothered about giving my children unusual names.

Whatnametoday5 · 04/01/2020 18:46

None - it’s not an unusual name but just not very popular in England, in Scotland I think it at the time was more popular.

Both my daughters have popular names in a year of 60 one other girl has the same name as my DD2 and secondary school huge only about 4 with DD1

Grinchly · 04/01/2020 18:48

Four of us with the same fabulous name in our class of 30.
I just don't get this business of having a unique name at all!

MattBerrysHair · 04/01/2020 18:48

None. I didn't meet anyone else with my name until I was a teenager and she was named after me. I was born in 1981. There are lots of children with my name now and I'm still the oldest one I know of.

iforgotthatyouexisted · 04/01/2020 18:54

No-one in primary that I remember but there were 3 of us in one class in secondary.

OllyBJolly · 04/01/2020 18:55

This will give my age away:

7 girls in my class.

3 x Carol
2 x Ann
1 x Elizabeth
1 x Linda

We3kingsoforientareandabump · 04/01/2020 18:56

0 in primary
1 in secondary

My name is probably more popular for boys (well the shortened version that I go by) but the other in my year was also a girl

2of50BookChallenge2020done · 04/01/2020 18:57

Two others in secondary school. I don't recall any in primary school. Only one of them spelled it the same way I do though (the correct bloody way!).

Mine is not so common these days, but not unusual at all.

Iwantmychairback · 04/01/2020 18:58

None in primary, one in the whole of secondary and one at Sixth Form.

Roxingaroundtheworld · 04/01/2020 18:59

None in primary and one in high school

Ragwort · 04/01/2020 18:59

None, but now in my team of 20 colleagues there are three of us, all the same sort of age, early 60s Grin.

AnotherEmma · 04/01/2020 19:00

Too many
As you can tell from my username Grin
I have a colleague at work with the same name and it causes confusion!
We are not close in age though, it's just a classic name.
I do like it but I would prefer to be the one and only Grin

heidbuttsupper · 04/01/2020 19:10

None but there were 5 Christophers in my class of 30!

Kn0ckOnTheDoor · 04/01/2020 19:12

lets say my name is Jane. In primary there was a girl named Sarah Jane who went by Jane officially, so technically 1 other.

In high school there was me and 3 others. However one was the previously mentioned Sarah Jane & the other was Natalie Jane who officially went by Jane.

It always confused me as the 2 girls still go by the name Jane but I've always thought their "real" first names are so much prettier and a bit more unusual than Jane.

MoonlightMistletoe · 04/01/2020 19:15

There was 5 of "us" in secondary school.

Blackcountryexile · 04/01/2020 19:20

One in my year at high school. She was born a few days after me in the same hospital and was given both my first and middle names, although with a slightly different spelling. At the time I saw it as stealing my name although both were quite common at the time.

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