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

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

Sarah
Laura
Hayley
Rachel/Rachael
Katherine/Katie/Kate
Rebecca

Christopher
James
David
Matthew
Luke

I think there were 5 Katherines (or variants) in my class. Natalie was popular as well.

Laura, Claire, Sarah, Stephanie and Stacey

My husband jokes everyone i know is either called Michelle or louise.

Mary Anne Carol..girls
Paul Andrew peter..boys

Sarah, Jessica, Rebecca, Catherine (and variants), Ryan, Aaron, Jonathan - don’t know any little ones with these names

Jane
Jo
Julie/a
Helen
Susan
Sally
Deborah
Fiona
Caroline/Carole
Heather
Alison
Sarah-Jane, Mary-Jane, Emma-Jane, (SJ, MJ, EJ) and Mary-Anne, Marie-Louise, Sally-Anne

I went to an all girls school

Sharon
Jane
Julie
Susan
Deborah
Joanne
Tracey
Janet

Nicola/Sarah/Caroline/Catherine (Katherine/Kathryn etc)

Richard/Paul/Matthew/David

Laura
Debbie
Alison
Joanne
Gillian
Susan

Paul
Chris
David
Andrew

Girls - Sarah, Elizabeth, Jennifer, Claire, Laura.
Boys- Matthew, Thomas, James and Daniel. We had 3 Thomas, 3 James and 2 Matthew's just in my class. They had to go by Tom, Tommy and Thomas. Matt and Matthew. Daniel and Danny lol!

@Diorissimo1985 same with the Louise name!! All my friends with Sarah Louise, Elizabeth Louise etc. We're the same age though so can see why!

Lisa
Deborah
Tracey ( I had three cousins called this, all born within six months)
Karen
Donna
Paul
Sreven
Martin
Gary
Jason

Boys were David, Phillip, Christopher, Simon, Ian, Andrew, Mark.

Tanya, Joanne, Michelle, Claire, Nicola, Amanda, Sarah, Dawn, Kelly, Denise, Melissa, Gemma, Kim, Toni and Emma. Also remember there were three Tamsin/Tamasins in my year, never met another since.

Mark - so many bloody Marks. Darren, Lee, Paul, Gary, Kevin, Jason, Martin and Jamie. Boys names were shortened differently too. They were Dave, Rob, Steve and Tony.

Joanne

@AgeLikeWine I think you were born in 1974

Gemma
Nicola
Stephanie
Rachel
Paul
Gareth
Andrew

Laura, Emma, Sarah, Anna, Claire, Rachel,
Matthew, Dave, Jonathan, Mark, Luke

Nicola
Julie
Claire
Joanna/Joanne

Tim
Ian
David
Philip

Michael. In one group I knew four Michaels and in another two. I still love the name though

I was born in the 80's - I knew 4 Joanna's (2 in my class at school) and there were 5 variations of Catherine in my class of 30 kids alone! Both names aren't very popular now (even though Catherine in particular seems pretty classic).

Jessica
Abigail
Rebecca

Think the boys names are still quite popular - Samuel, Alexander, Thomas etc?

Sarah
Laura
Claire
Rebecca
Lauren

Robert
Stephen/Steven
Christopher
Daniel

Charlotte
Emily
Rebecca
Sarah
Emma
Tracy
Kimberly
Kate/Katie
Sophie
Laura
Lucy
Kelly
Amy
Louise
Victoria
Nicola
Zoe

David
Martin
William
Kevin
Ryan
Paul
Ian
Andrew
John
James
Aaron
Jason
Gary
Daniel
Tom
Tim
Sam
Steven/Stephen
Anthony/Antony
Carl/Karl
Stuart