Names most associate with the 1970s and 1980s

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A friend of mine (early 20s) has given names to her girls that I think are strongly linked to the 70s/80s and I found I really liked hearing them! Not sure if it is because they remind me of school days or because they sound refreshing as so rare to be heard on children atm.

What are your favourite distinctly 70s/80s names?

I like Lisa, Leanne and Stephanie!

Sarah
Claire
Victoria
Nicola
Jenny
Joanne/Joanna
Emma
Stephanie
Alison

Mathew
David
Mark
Paul
Simon
Jonathan
Steven
James

I’m going to start suggesting these names when people ask on here for more unusual ones!

I now have The Beautiful South and Pulp as a mash up in my head

@CirqueDeMorgue

And Carly.

Yes mid/ late 80s name.. I taught dozens of teenage Carly/Carlie/Karlies in the late 90s.

Of course another late 80s one was Charlene.

Also (thinking of the names of some of the 90s teens I taught)

Stacey
Gemma
Leah
Kylie
Hannah
Rebecca
Sara/Sarah
Eloise
Carina

When I think back to my old school classes, it feels as if mid 70s boys in particular were all named from a tiny handful of options:

Richard
Jonathan
James
David
Philip
Paul
Simon
Andrew
Christopher

The girls were more varied but with multiple Sarah/Claire/Amanda/Carolines.

Clare

Caroline, Catherine

Sarah

I love 70s American sounding girls names like-
Caroline
Judy
Stephanie

Patricia
Bernadette
Geraldine
Maxine

Wayne
Kevin
Darren

Most of the boys were named Michael or Gerald. My brother literally had four friends all called Michael. Most of the girls were Mary or Catherine.

My name-Kerry.
Also, Tracey, Julie, Karen, Lisa, Leanne, Rachel, Adele, Donna...

I’ve always loved the name Rebecca and Rachel.

Kelly, Claire, Julia, Ema, Anything Louise.Anything Marie.

I’m not saying these are names I like, but these were the most common names in my school, end 70s-90s, popular late 60s-80s

Rebecca, claire, louise, Emma, lisa, Katherine, rachel, amy
Richard, andrew, martin, Simon, paul, mark, Luke, david

• some of these remain but have been poshified (Marcus, Louisa, Luca) etc.

Sarah

Here's some of the less common ones I remember from school -
Hannah
Tricia
Charlotte
Gemma
Marianne
Verity
Tamsin
Tiffany
Kirsten

Murray
Adam
Stuart
Guy
Rodney

Sarah, Nicola, Joanne, Claire, Emma, Lisa, Louise, Karen, Kerry

David, Chris, Stephen, Mark

I like Anne-Marie

Ha! There was a thread on here about names people irrationally dislike and I was busy thinking about all the names that get on my nerves. They were all from the seventies. In fact, most of them were the names of people I went to school with. I mustn't have liked them much!

Anyway, names I DON'T hate from that era and would love to hear again are:

Deborah
Jacqueline
Jennifer
Christine
Elinor/Eleanor

David
Jonathan
Michael
Adrian

All from the seventies rather than the eighties. I didn't notice what people called their children in the eighties as I was too busy being a very disinterested teenager!

Clare
Nicola
Julie
Emma
Lisa
Laura

Ian
David
Neil
Stephen
Simon

There were 12 boys in my secondary school form and four were called Richard, three were called John, and two were called Lee. Pretty much sums it up for boys!

A bit the same over the last twenty years with all the Jack’s and Thomas’s. You may as well call your child Boy IMO.

I like Laura too

Kayleigh, Samantha, Annette, Julia, Karen, Michelle, Tracy, Catherine, Sharon, Caroline, Paula,
Susan, Alison, Deborah, Maxine, Louise, Amanda, Julie.

Mark, Philip, Jason, Richard, Jonathan, Clint, Adrian, Stephen, Robert, Andrew.

Names from that time I love (probably because I spent years wishing they were my name !):
Samantha
Leanne
Hayley
Joanna
Kelly
Julia
Suzanne

The "cool" boys names from my era would have been:
Scott
Sean
Dean
Lee
Daniel
Matt