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

I was born late 70s.

Girls were:

Sarah
Lyndsey/Lindsey
Victoria
Elizabeth
Amanda/Mandy
Jenny/Jennifer

Boys were:

David
Andrew
Mark
Matthew
Steven
Andrew

Mid 1970s SE

Julie
Wendy
Beth
Annette
Samantha x 3 in my friendship group alone
Emma
Pippa
Kerry
Sarah
Isobel

Guy
Matthew x 3
Tim
Colin
Simon x 3
Rod
David - lots and lots

Born in the South West mid 80's
Most common girls names were:
Amy
Hannah
Laura/Lauren
Helen
Lucy
Jessica
Zoe

Most common boys names were:
Andrew
James
Matthew
Daniel
Mark
Michael
Kevin

Born mid 80s in the south. All girls were Emma, rachel or sarah and one random Kylie/Cheryl

Boys were all called James, Matthew or Thomas

Was a simpler time!

Born in mid-80s N Scotland

Boys:
Craig
Scott
Ross
Calum/Callum
Chris
Alan
James
John

Girls:
Sarah
Lauren
Julie
Nicola
Joanne
Kirsten/Kirsty
Samantha

The north west. Early 70s:

Alison
Lindsey
Susan
Karen
Julie
Andrea
Melanie
Louise
Sarah
Clare
Lisa
Donna
Caroline

Stephen
Mark
Matthew
Jonathan
Michael
Martin
Scott
Anthony
Gary
Wayne
Lee

Mid 60s for me:

Mandy
Caroline
Lynda
Catherine
Ruth
Helen
Margaret
Samantha
Jane

Boys
John
Mark
Stephen
Chris
Simon
Paul
Kenneth
Ian

Cornwall, 93:

Alice
Jenna
Jenny
Georgie
Danielle
Kerry
Lowenna

Tom
Sam
Ben
Dan
Dayle

Late 80's North London

Danielle
Natalie
Lauren
Amy
Sophie
Rebecca
Charlotte
Laura

Tom
Danny
James
Charlie
Sam
Robert
George
Grant
Mark

Born in the South in 1985.

Peers were called names like

Katie
Sarah
Hayley
Claire
Leanne
Danielle

David
Jamie
Paul
Stephen
Kevin
Darren

Late 70s:

Emma
Sarah
Tracey
Clare
Joanne
Helen
Lisa
Catherine

Richard
Matthew
Jonathan
Stephen
David
Robert

Born in the 60s
Angela
Linda
Julie
Donna
Bernadette
Jackie
Helen
Tracey
Carole
Jill

Boys
Pete
Carl
Mark
Mick
Colin
Gary
Paul
Scott

Born in Scotland in the 60s.

Geraldine, Samantha, Colette, Claire, Mary-Jo, to name a few

Boys: Michael, John, Christopher, Stephen, Phillip
Girls: Jane, Janet, Linda, Angela, Hilary, Mary

Now you have to guess when I was at school!?

Born in late 70's grew up in SW
Girls
Claire
Rebecca (Becky)
Abbey
Beth
Jessica
Tasha
Julie
Portia
Dawn
Karen
Victoria (Vicky)
Hannah
Emma
Helen

Boys
Timothy
Andy
Daniel
Richard (rich)
Simon
Kris
Adrian
James
Michael
Jonathan (Jon)
David (Dave)
William (Will)

1950s, SE.
Linda, Gillian, Janet, Janice, Anne, Yvonne, Barbara, Denise, Alison, Lynette, Brenda, Carol, Christine, Susan, Sandra, Wendy.
Charlie, Peter, Edward, Roger, Nigel, Nicholas, Andrew, Julian, Christopher, Stephen, Dennis, Geoffrey, Michael.

1950s south Wales

Denise
Rebecca
Christine
Susan
Stephanie
Anita
Ann
Judith

Forgot the boys

Robert
Paul
Michael
Gary
Kelvin'
Kenneth
Huw
Peter
Ian
Tim

Born in the 80's up North

Rebecca
Rachel
Amy
Sophie
Jennifer
Laura
Katie
Hannah
Emma
Louise
Charlotte

Andrew
Thomas
Richard
Robert
Alex
Matthew
James
Joseph
Daniel
Sam

See I wouldn’t say any of your girls names were particular popular in the 90’s. You must have been in an odd pocket. It was all:

Chloe
Jessica
Hannah
Emily
Lauren
Sophie

for boys it’s
Jack
Ryan
Dan
Etc

The people I was friends with at school:

Hannah, Laura, Lucy, Kate, Beth, Lauren, Ellie, Jess, Chloe, Vicky, Keira, Anna, Emma.

Matt, Nick, James, Ben, Jake, Steven, Andrew, Tom, Lee, Ryan, Joe.

Born very late 80s, North West!

Mid 80s
Laura
Sarah
Elizabeth
Gemma
Rachel

Matthew
Stephen
James
Peter
David

I do know girls with all of those names (except Chloe actually which is odd, they were all a few years older) but yes seems an odd pocket.

I forgot Ben off the boys list. So many Benjamin's.

This thread reminds me of a friends sons who is about 23 I think. He thinks Paul is a really old fashioned name and only old men are called Paul 😳😂

Born in 81 and went to school in South East London.

Primary:

Phoebe
Rhoda
Kimberley
Lisa
Lucy

Nicholas
Antony
Miles

Claire
Sarah
Gemma
Nicola
Kimberley

Andrew
Steven
Billy