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 in 1970s in Scotland

Names like:

Nicola
Jennifer
Heather
Shona
Joanne

Andrew
James
Stuart
Michael
Duncan

Midlands mid-70s:

Sarah
Rachel
Louise
Lynda
Emma
Jane
Kate/Catherine etc
Julie

Darren
Lee
Jason
John
Shaun
Mike
Matthew
Neil

Boys were called: Gary,Paul, Michael (Mike or Mick) Mark/Marc/Marcus, David, Tony, Nick, John, Phil, Steve, Chris
Girls were Susan, Sarah, Debbie, Alison, Karen, Tina /Christine , Donna, Jackie.
Lots of others, but those were the ones that came up frequently.
London, 60s.

Mid 70s baby here, & my friends were -

Louise
Lisa
Nicola
Sharon
Grace
Claire
Donna
Jo

Boys were -
Richard
Ian
Paul
Robert
Steven
James
Andrew

Currently nearly all of my friends & colleagues are called Claire or Helen, all born in the 80s.

South East mid 70’s
Clare
Tina
Karen
Joanne
Catherine
Louise
Sophie
Gemma

Andrew
Paul
Steven
Darren
John
Daniel
Lee
Scott

Born 1950s, expat in mainly community of mainly Brits, some Americans.
Girls - Susan (so many Susans)
Linda - ditto
Lynne/Lynn
Christine
Carol/Caroline
Sheila
Anne
Judith/Judy
Jane
Catherine/Cathy
Barbara

boys
David
Christopher
Michael
Paul
Jonathon
Richard
Charles
Simon
Anthony
James

The yanks were
Johnny (loads of Johnnys)
Greg
Steve
girls-
Jackie
Janet/Janette
Jo-Ann

I grew up in the 90's/00's.

Louise, Samantha, Rebecca, Nicole/Nicola, Michelle, Kirsty, Sophie, Laura/Lauren were all common for girls.

Simon, Michael, Matthew, Chris, Luke, Daniel, Tom, James, Jonathan, Phil, Nick, Mark for boys.

Born in London, late 70s.

Girls: Sarah, Kelly, Claire, Emma, Nicola, Tracey, Rebecca, Donna, Vicky, Joanne

Boys: David, Chris, Andrew, Steven, James, Richard, Paul, Simon, Justin, Darren

Born in 79, moved from the Midlands to the South in the late 80s. My best friend in both places was called Amanda. So for girls - Amanda, Rebecca, Emma, Louise/a, Joanne/a, Sarah. At university there were three Lucys on my course. Now (although not then) I seem to know a lot of Cats or Catherines.

Boys - Peter, Tom, Dan, Robert, Kevin, Damien, James/Jamie, Nick. Still all fairly common now I think?

Born late 80s, abroad, western Europe. Many, many Sophies & Toms, and the local versions of John & Joseph. Pretty similar to the UK around that time I think.

Also popular - Alex/Alexander, Chris/Christopher, Laura, Catherine (various versions)

London late 70s

Boys: Paul, Thomas, Ben, Mark, Paul, Christopher, Stephen

Girls: Catherine, Kate, Sarah, Laura, Michelle, Melanie, Louise, Nicola

1970s Wales:

Sarah
Claire/Clare
Tracey
Sian
Kathryn/Catherine/Katherine
Lisa
Julie

Richard
Leigh/Lee
Ian
Darren
Rhys
James
David

North born mid 90s

In my school year there were 5 Rachel's!
Lots of ee/ey names:
Amy
Hayley
Holly
Natalie
Bethany
Stacey
Courtney
Chelsea
Kerry
Abbie

I knew at least x2 of each of these names, I remember calling them Amy M and Amy C, blonde Hayley, tall Holly etc

Boys were:
Lewis
Dale
Daniel
Aaron
Shaun

Girls:
Andrea
Amanda
Nicola
Naomi
Heidi
Tracy
Sarah
Christina
Deborah
Susan
Denise
Karen
Jacqueline
Carol
Linda
Shirley
Donna

Boys:
Tony
David
Andrew
Paul
Gary
Barry
Michael
Hugh
Johnathan
Julian
Wayne
Philip
Duncan
Kevin
Craig

Born mid 60s- Lancashire.

Born in the southwest in the late 60s, working class. They were called Tracey, Alison, Laura, Jackie, Susan, Samantha, Adam, Jonathan, Stephen, David, Mark.

Born mid 90s in Scotland

Taylor (both sexes)
Hannah
Sarah
Emma
Amy
Lauren
Gemma/Jemma
Nicole/Nicola

Adam
Daniel
James
Ryan
Ross
Andrew

1985 was my birh year.
Tons of Sarah's, Katie's and Emma's

Sarah, Emma, Rachel, Joanne/Joanna, Alison, Julie, Amanda.

Simon, Peter, John/Jonathan, Daniel, Ian, Steven/Stephen, Paul.

Early 70s.

I was born in the early 80s and went to a girls’ school. There were fifteen girls called Hannah in my year, including two called Hannah Jones. One of them was really good at cross-country so to distinguish them she was universally known (including by the teachers) as Running Hannah Jones, and the other one was Not Running Hannah Jones.

Then when I arrived at university there were so many Davids that every single one of them had a nickname by the end of freshers’ week, which stuck for the entirety of their degree and beyond. Some were innocuous, such as DVD Dave (DVDs were still quite new technology and he was the only person we knew with a DVD player) but most were unflattering and some were genuinely unprintable.

It’s probably no surprise that it was important to me to avoid the top ten when naming my own children.

Midlands late 80s:
Stephanie
Laura
Victoria
Elizabeth
Carly
Emma
Nicole

Daniel
Matthew
Thomas
Lee
Luke
Ben
Nick

Ooh David and Jamie!

@DysonBison I was born up North (Sheffield area) also mid 70s & my first & middle name is on your list 🤣🤣
Girls I knew were: Sarah, Louise, Helen, Samantha, Sally, Emma, Karen, Rosie etc
Boys were: Jeremy, Mark, Matthew, Alex, Robert, James, Paul

Born 1966

Katherine
Claire
Rachel
Christine
Susan
Anne
Helen
Sally
Janet
Lisa
Jennifer

Boys were
David
Andrew
Mark
Gary
Jason

Born late 80's

Sarah
Katie
Becky
Emma
Jade
Kelly
Carly
Amy
Laura