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

Oh gosh this is really aging!

Girls:

Donna
Dawn
Clare
Ruth
Lucy

Boys:

Tom
Christopher
Adrian
James

Girls : Lisa, Sarah, Tina, Nicole, Melanie, Jane, Carol
Boys: Mark, Michael, Lee, Gary, Paul, Darren, David

I was born mid 80s-
We had 2 Danielles and 4 Daniels in one class.

Other popular names-

Emma
Gemma
Stacey
Laura
Kelly
Carly
Lauren
Rachel
Louise
Kirsty

Matt
Joe
Ben
Chris
Jonathan
Mark
Lee
Paul
Sean

In the north west - born in the late 80s (mixture of primary and secondary school and extracurriculars):

Boys:

Adam
Ashley
Benjamin
Brian
Christopher
Daniel
Daryl
David
Dean
Edward
James
Jocelyn
Joseph
Jonathan
Lee
Marc
Martin
Paul
Peter
Philip
Richard
Robert
Ryan
Thomas
Scott
Timothy

Girls:

Amanda
Amy
Anna
Charlotte
Emily
Emma
Hannah
Helen
Holly
Jennifer
Katy
Keely
Kelly
Laura
Lauren
Lee
Lisa
Lucy
Marion
Natalie
Natasha
Nicola
Pamela
Rachel
Rebecca
Rhiannon
Rosanna
Sarah
Sophie
Stephanie
Victoria

North in the 80's

Kelly
Chrissy
Claire
Laura
Joanne
Lindsey
Debbie
Amanda
Sarah

Adam
Paul
Chris
Carl
Shawn
Jamie
Kevin
Steven

North west late 70s

Gareth
Douglas
Paul
Ian
Jonathan
Matthew
Barry
Graham

Louise
Claire
Emma
Amanda
Lindsay
Joanna
Vicky
Jennifer
Samantha

Scotland 60s
Susan
Gillian
Lorraine
Karen
Fiona
Anne
Elaine
Linda
Alison
David
Kevin
Andrew
James
Colin
Kenneth
Ian

Growing up in the ‘80’s

Girls

Sarah
Elizabeth
Emma
Karen
Donna
Dawn
Michelle
Kirsty
Nicola
Amanda
Tanya

Boys

Nick/Nicholas
Mark
Ian
Christopher
Richard
Paul
John
Thomas
Matthew
Adrian

Born late 60s

Girls:
Sharon
Tracy
Deborah
Karen
Susan
Rebecca
Paula
Jackie
Beverley

Boys:
Paul
David
Steven
Mark
Andrew
Gary

SW England, early 80s

Girls: Sarah (x 100), Claire, Rebecca, Victoria, Katie, Nicola, Laura, Lisa and Kelly

Boys: James, Ben, Paul, Mark, Matthew, Chris, Tom and Daniel

Very late 60s/Early 70's Northern England
Joanne
Michelle
Alison
Karen
Debbie
Emma
Susan
Jackie
Caroline
Stephen
Andrew
Michael
Paul
David
Jonathan
Nicholas
Shaun/Sean

Also born in the North, mid 70s

Echo this - would add Nicola, Dawn, Lisa and Joanne to the girls first names and Marie to the middle names

Boys there were also a fair few Pauls, also some Darrens, Craigs, Garys, and the occasional Dale

Late 80s…

sarah
laura
emma
lucy
hannah
lizzie
emily
amy
jenny
kate

tom
peter
david
chris
oliver
james
robert
ben
alex
dan
will

Born in the 80s, London, most popular girls names were Nicola/Lisa/Laura/Louise/absolute millions of Joanna’s or Joanne’s/Claire/Rachel/Vicky/Natalie

and every second boy was called Matt, James or Daniel

Scotland, early-mid 90s

Louise
Laura
Stephanie
Jessica
Jennifer

Stephen
Callum
Barry
Mark
Grant

Oh and Emma & Gemma! Lots of them too!

Midlands mid 60s
Mandy
Michelle
Karen
Anne
Linda
Veronica
Julie
Dawn
Susan

Andrew
Peter
Mark
Christopher
Billy
Tony
John
Richard
Geoff

4 Bens and 3 Sams in my year 7 class 🙃 a few Toms and Lukes too.

Loads of Ellies, Charlottes and Hannahs too.

Born in 1990.

South east early 60s:
Catherine
Christine
Sarah
Jane
Lucy
Fiona
Alison
Annemarie

Jonathan
David
Richard
Kevin
Andrew
Simon
Dennis

Born mid 80s, north west.

Boys :- Daniel. (There were 5 in my form group at high school alone), David, mark, Thomas/Tom, Christopher/Chris, Matthew, Philip

Girls :- Sarah, Laura, Lyndsey, Victoria/Vicky, Alexandra/Alex, Lauren, Gemma, Stephanie

I was born in mid 70s Norther Ireland

Girls were: Gillian, Fiona, susan, Orla, Elizabeth, Jennifer - very few Irish names in my peers - the odd Aisling

Boys were: John, Patrick, David, Eoin/Owen, mark, barry, Sean

Bit. Mid-70s

Most of the kids at my school were called

Claire
Joanne
Sarah
Emma
Lindsey
Rachel
Lisa
Mark
Chris
Steve
David
Andrew

Early 80s, London

Sarah
Claire
Nicola
Joanne
Michelle
Emma
Katie
Kelly

David
Paul
James
Matthew
Danny
Lee
Chris
Mark

I was born in the early 80s there was loads of:
James
Matthew
Andrew
Adam
David
Katherine/Kat/Katie etc
Sarah
Emily
Kerry
Rebecca

Born early 80s..
Jemma
clare
emma
kelly
kathryn
sarah
louise
deborah
rachel
nicola

mark
peter
ben
richard
daniel
Matthew
luke
steven
Karl
andrew
alex