Popular first names from your childhood that aren't popular now

[Lockdowner35]

I remember so many Ryan's , don't know any now.

You must be younger than me. When I was a child the most popular names were as follows.

Joanne
Sharon
Nicola

In that order. I remember a number of Lucys though...oh and a lot of Rachels and Emmas.

Deborah
Deirdre
Martina
Adrienne
Vivienne
Emily
Valerie
Paula

Everyone in my childhood was called Emma or Claire or Laura.

Out of approximately 70 girls in my year at school, five were called Sharon, and three were called Joanne. Out of a similar number of boys, we had at least five Pauls and four Johns.

Guess when I was born?

@unlimiteddilutingjuice same!! In my secondary school class we had 4 Emmas, 2 Claires, 2 Helens and 2 Laura's.

Natalie

Susan. There were hundreds of them.

Anne-Marie, Lynsey, Alison.

In my primary school class we had 5 Christophers!

Catherine
Clare
Paula
Lorraine
Hayley
Maxine
Lisa

Sarah, Karen, Donna, Vicky, Debbie, Samantha, Becky

Sarah. Jenny. Joanne.

Georgie

Emma
Lucy
Claire
Gemma
Sarah

Amanda, Gillian, Jeanette
Andrew, Martin, Stephen

Stephanie was very popular when I was little, so was Rachel

My class at school was full of Susans, Lindas and Julies.

Susan, Sarah, Amanda
Darren, Adrian, Neil

Sarah, Nicola were the most popular girls in my year.

Mark was very popular for the boys.

Jane, Susan, Caroline, Rachel, Simon.

I went to an all girls school - Louise, Sarah, Emma, Claire, Laura all very popular.

If Louise wasn’t her first name it was her middle name usually!

Stephen
Gary
Paul
Richard
Anita
Deborah
Karen
Pamela
Angela
Wendy
Angela
Jane
Carol
Denise
Susan
Catherine

Boys :-

Daniel (there were 5 just in my form group)
Christopher
David

Girls :-

Claire
Victoria / Vicky
Gemma

Martin, Gary, Thomas, Jason

Dawn, Jillian, Michelle, Catherine, Jane, Kelly, Jenny, Joanne, Helen, Claire, Deborah, Samantha, Caroline.