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.

Despite being popular in the 70s/80s there were only the odd 1 or 2 at school who had the same name as me. However, on leaving school, having been in various jobs and lived in different places etc I've met LOADS of people with my name and realise just how unoriginal it is

14412 people were given the same first name as me the year I was born 😂

GreaterSpotted that’s my experience exactly. There were only 2 or 3 other girls with my name in my huge secondary school but it’s actually a really common name for my age group and I’ve subsequently met loads. Shows how localised naming trends can be.

Five in my year. Obviously a popular name the year I was born but not generally all that popular and fallen completely out of favour now.

None, and I've never met anyone younger than me who shares my name. Have never met anyone with my middle name either. It's funny because all my siblings have very 'normal' names but mine is really unusual. Parents must have had a fit of madness.

Scoose there were well over a hundred in 1981/1982 but in the scheme of things that’s not very many out of 67million now 😄

I wonder where they were all hiding ivy

None, my name isn't unusual but it's not popular.

I hated it when I was younger, I love it now.

None and still rarely ever hear my name now

No one... even now I rarely come across people my age with my name in this country!

Two of us in my tutor group and six of us in the same year ( out of 150 or so children). Funny, because since leaving school I've hardly ever met anyone who shares my name and now it regularly appears on the most- hated lists on MN

Two others in my year at primary, one other at secondary. In my early 30s, I did go on a hen weekend where out of 9 people, 4 of us had the same name.

11 in my year at one point, clearly I have a very common name

4 of us had names with the same first syllable in High School.
When the teacher started saying it we all ducked our heads!

My name is very popular now but it was more Old Lady in the 70s.

None at primary
None at secondary
One at work

There were 6 of us I. My class in primary school. I can't rember how manny I my class at secondary school. However it was an extremely popular name which peaked in popularity the year I ws born, when there were over 240,000 born.

None at primary, I think probably 5 or 6 in my year (250) at secondary.

When I got to uni there were 4 of us in one house (out of 25 women). There were another 3 of another common name too so I don’t think there was much variation in girls names in the eighties.

None. And I have never met anyone with the same name (and I'm 50!). My surname is unusual too. Google my name and you find ... me.

In primary school there were 5 other girls with the same name, and in secondary it increased to 10...... I have a name that was very popular in our area at that time! One of my best friends that I met at Uni also has the same name......

None in primary or secondary and, in fact, I have never actually met another person with my name. My name is not particularly unusual or strange or ugly, just never popular where I am.

None in primary school that I remember, certainly none in my year.

None in my year at secondary but there was one other I knew of about 2 years above me.

I’ve met/known very few people with my name. It’s not unusual, everyone has heard of it yet there just don’t seem to be that many of us around.

None at school - 1200 girls

None at work across a lot of years

My name is not an unusual one. You would call it classic

None. My name became incredibly popular since though, but is now on the downturn.

That was secondary 1200

None at primary either

None the only people I've met with my name are 8-10 years younger