What were your peers called?

[Justinripley]

Following on from another thread where a poster is the same age as myself but didn’t know anyone called Phoebe (yet I know of loads my age)

I thought it would be interesting to see what the most popular names in your year groups/friends were, depending on peoples locations.

So for example: I was born in the mid 90’s, South London and I grew up with loads of:

Sophia
Grace
Phoebe
Molly
Lily

Jack
Tom
Joe
Sam
Max

Born London 1970s

Emma, Emily, Kate/ie, Sophie, Camilla, Imogen, Alex, Romilly, Roxanna, Venetia

Guy, Luke, Johnny, Sebastian, Will, Rob, Nick, Tom, Andy, Mark, Dom, Alex, Justin

Early 80s, not UK.

The girls were Jennifer, Katie, Christina, Julie, Lauren, Amanda, Becky.

Every boy was called David.

Louise, Laura, Amy, Joanne, Emily, Emma, Gemma, Jenny, Rebecca/Becky

Dominic, Toby, Jack, James, Andrew, Chris, Jonathan/Jonny (don't recall any Johns!)

SW England, born mid-80s

Born 1970s Thats all you’re getting.🤣.
Michelle.
Jenny/Jennifer
Joanne
Lisa
Ann (Which always struck me as very old fashioned.)
Toni.

Born South Wales mid-80s.

Girls' names: Amy, Sarah, Jessica, Laura, Claire, Rebecca, Joanne, Gemma, Nicola

Boys' names: Daniel, James, Nick, Andrew, Paul, David, Steven, Adam, Christopher

North West, mid 1980s. There weren't actually many repeats in my school year, my brother was born late 80s and it felt like his year group was largely Katie and Michael.

Girls

Sarah
Amy
Laura
Hannah

Boys

Jack
Daniel
James
Mark

Oh Jennifer too.

That's interesting, I was also born in the mid 90s in the south east and none of those girl's names were common!

Girls:
Laura
Hannah
Lauren
Jessica
Sarah

Boys:
Jack
Josh
Daniel
Michael

Oh and Emily.

My eldest Dd was born mid 90s this could have been her year group.

Kayleigh
Megan
Sophia/Sofia
Jessica
Hannah
Jasmine
Rebecca
Nur

Christopher
Liam
Jason
Freddie
Calvin/Kelvin
Brandon

*Sorry, I was born in 87, and these names are from my international school!

I had DS1 in 1992 & the 3 new mothers in the maternity ward with me all had DDs called Laura

North east 80s
Lots of:
Rebecca
Danielle
Lucy
Kate
Jill
Tracey
Carly
Amy
Lynsey/ Lindsay
Sammie

Things like Edie/Mabel/Iris/Rose were 'old lady granny names' and you didn't get any Sharon/ Joyce/ Barbaras either. They were our mums' names.

You'd get the odd Kylie which was exciting.

Born in the early 80's
Girls:
Amy
Hannah
Rebecca
Sarah
Victoria / Vicki
Marianne
Adele

Boys:
David
Matthew
Johnathan / Jonny
Kieran
Thomas / Tom
Tristan
Samuel / Sam

1960s Thames Valley:

Sally
Amanda
Joanne
Susan
Deborah
Suzanne
Jacqueline

Gary
Stephen
Colin
Andrew
Jonathan
Guy
Ian

I was born mid-60s and these are the names of the kids I knew at school in the '70s..

Girls-
Tracy
Karen
Sharon
Deborah
Helen
Sarah
Nicola
Lisa
Julie
Michelle
Teresa
Shannon

Boys-
Paul (I knew at least four Pauls at school)
Stephen/Steven
Kevin
Darren
Dean
Shane
Wayne
Richard
Michael
Matthew
David
Shaun/Sean
Andrew

Midlands mid 60s

Kay
Lorraine
Noel
Tracy
Alison
Lorraine
Ingrid
Susan
Sharon

Neil
Michael
Anthony
Nigel
Peter
Steven
David
Paul

Also Gary

Born early 90s

Lots of:

Abbie
Louise
Sarah
Katie
Rebecca
Amy

Kieran
Daniel
Mark
Joseph
Paul

Born late 60s, SE Scotland.

There were multiples of these names when I was at school:

Lesley, Karen, Amanda, Lisa, Lorraine, Tracey, Lynn, Gillian, Michelle

Stuart, Andrew, Stephen, Scott, Alan, Graham, Paul, James

Late 80's in the SE

Amy
Becky
Laura
Lucy
Hannah
Rachael
Jenny
Samantha

Chris
Matt
Sam
Dan
Lee
James
Alex
Craig

Born in the early 70's in North Wales.

Girls
Zoe
Elaine
Lucy
Marie
Nia
Alison
Wendy
Kerry
Lia
Amanda

Boys
Neil
Barry
Gareth
Matthew
Jonathan
Kevin
Tony
Paul
Darren
Carl
Mark

Born in very early 80s in northern England!

Claire
Isabel
Emma
Catherine
Gemma
Katie
Joanne
Helen
Lisa

James
Paul
Jonathan
Ian
Darren
Lee

Early 70's South West.

Phoebe
Rhian
Charlotte
Lydia
Emma
Alex
Sophie
Ellie
Esme

Tom
Sam
Andrew
Matthew
Mike
Jonathan
David
Simon