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

Late 60s, N.Wales.

Carys
Siân
Bethan
Rhian
Eleri
Sioned
Delyth
Karen
Sarah
Helen

Gareth
Dylan
John
Mark
Paul
Andrew
Darren
Stephen
Ian

Mid 90s up north. Heavily repeated names in my year at school:

Girls:
Emily
Emma
Bethany
Georgia
Katie
Amy

Boys:
James
Luke
Connor
Sam
Thomas

I forgot David, Huw and Rhys from my list.
Nia was very popular for girls

Born at the end of the 60's, went to school in Essex.

Girls:
Jane
Julie
Geraldine
Amelia
Fiona
Caroline
Jessica
Angela
Catherine
Andrea

Boys:
John
David
Keith
Gary (Gareth)
Simon
Peter
Darren
Justin
Stephen
Paul

70’s
joanna
nicola
emma
lucy
natalie
lisa
deborah
Michelle
rebecca
sara / sarah
rachel
caroline
elizabeth
katherine
Alexandra

daniel
David
nicholas
marc / Mark
jonathan
simon
Ben
Paul
Adam
james

Early 60's..

Sharon
Debbie
Claire
Sally
Joanne
Karen
Jill
Rita
Lorraine

Roger
Barry
Antony
Derek
Jeffrey
Ian
Stephen
Kevin
Keith

I forgot all the Debbies and Marks.

Lovely thread, thank you!

Early 80s Home Counties:

Carolyn
Sandra
Lisa
Joanne
Karen
Pamela
Dawn
Rachel
Monique
Jacqueline
Belinda
Amanda
Sarah
Nerys
Kirsty
Lauren

Michael
Andrew
Kelvin
Mark
Matthew
Benjamin
Christopher
Daniel
Nicholas
Oliver

North mid-60s

Rachel
Sarah
Helen
Jane
Victoria
Eleanor
Catherine
Katherine
Elizabeth/Elspeth/Libeth
Imogen
Julie/Juliet
Karen
Caroline
Stephanie

Peter
Simon
David
James
John
Andrew
Fraser
Nicholas
Dominic
Alexander
Richard
Stephen
Anthony

Multiples of:

Sarah
Clare/Claire
Emma
Emily
Joanne/Joanna
Caroline/Carolyn
Suzanne/Suzanna
Tracy/Tracey
Sharon
Amanda
Fiona
Rachel
Lisa
Laura
Christine
Nicola
Melanie
Karen
Karina (various spellings)
Victoria
Charlotte
Elizabeth
Elaine
Samantha
Michelle
Shelley
Francesca
Sophie
Sonia
Jayne/Jane

Simon
Mark
Matthew
Philip
Jason
Christopher
James
Daniel
Graham
Neil
Kevin
Ashley
Richard
Timothy
Andrew
Stephen
Justin
Nigel

Oh and various spellings of Katrina/Catriona

80s
Boys
Alex
Johnathan
Robert
Andrew
James
Antony
Paul
Duncan
Jeremy
David
Liam
Russel
Steven
Carl
Chris
Richard

Girls

Joanna
Louise
Justine
Sarah
Rosie
Claire
Catherine
Mary
Sonia
Rebecca
Kelly
Sharon
Emma
Julia
Nathalie
Carla
Lorna
Charlotte
Katie

5 Emmas, 3 Lauras and 3 Millys in my year at school - born mid 80s! Boys names seemed more varied, lots of Ollies though.

Started school in the early 70s. Class was populated by 1 Sarah, 2 Rachels, 2 Debbies, 1 Jackie, 2 Lindas, 2 Traceys, 1 Susan, 1 Jane, 1 Julie, 2 Michaels, 3 Roberts, 2 Andrews, 2 Pauls, 1 Mark, 2 Garys and a handful of outliers like Dean and Heidi. My own name excluded, but outside the top twenty.
Actually, I think there might have been a third Debbie.

Love this!!

Born Cambs in mid 70's
My peers were:
Louise
Sarah
Rachel
Natalie
Joanne
Rebecca
Amanda
Jane
Claire
Melissa
Victoria
Elizabeth
Suzanne
Kathryn
Catherine
Charlotte
Helen

Boys: Simon
Robert
David
Justin
Tristan
Daniel
Miles
Andrew
Michael
Christopher
Matthew
Martin
Jason
Benjamin
Edward
Thomas
Charles
George
Ian
Nicholas
Alistair
Mark

South East, 1981

Jane, Sophie, Laura, Lucy, Louise, Rebecca, Rachel, Susan, Emma, Emily, Chloe, Melanie, Jenny, Katie, Kelly, Sarah, Amy, Anna, Lisa, Victoria, Nicola, Clare, Naomi, Natalie, Alex, Sam, Megan, Charlotte, Jessica

John, James, Andrew, Anthony, Sean, Aaron, Tom, Sam, Alex, Paul, Ben, Danny, Michael, David, Darren, Carl, Barney, Ian, Barry, Wesley, Nick, Ross, Peter, Rory, Joe

I'm in the South East, born early 1990s and had a lot of...

Amy
Sophie
Jessica
Lucy
Emily

Benjamin
Michael
Charles/Charlie
Matthew
William

Susan, Claire , Caroline, Pamela , Julie Tracy

Mid 70's in very nice area
Elspeth
Charlotte
Phillipa - Pippa
Naomi
Josephine
Harriet

George
Johnathan
Marcus
Lewis
Guy
Jeremy -Jez

Mid 80s baby and mine were:

Karen
Lindsay
Lisa
Mary/Marie
Claire
Angela

Paul
Steven
Christopher
Ryan
Michael
Mark

That's based on the most popular names I can remember from my class at school (it was a catholic school if that makes a difference)

The repeated names in my year were either Irish names (Aisling, Aoife, Sinéad, Niamh, Aine, Sadhbh, Cliona, Maeve, Eimear, Ciara, Caoimhe) or classic(ish) names like Kate, Sarah, Sophie, Emma, Hannah, Laura, Rachel. The most common boys names seemed to be Jack, Seán, Conor, David, Michael, Shane etc, there were multiples of each. Born in the mid nineties in Dublin!

Born late 70’s

Becky
Lucy
Sarah
Kate
Amy
Sally
Joanne
Rachel
Julie
Nicola / Nikki

Dublin, mid 60s..
Lots and lots of:

Lorraine
Christine
Sharon
Julie
Denise
Siobhan
Orla
Grainne
Linda
Niamh
Suzanne
Barbara/ Bairbre
Emma
Michelle
Anne-Marie
Nuala
Geraldine
Brenda
Jacqueline
Sandra
Fiona
Nicola
Jennifer
Karen
Gillian

Conor
Alan
Derek
Robert
Dermot
Colm
Ian
David
Paul
John
Michael
Mark
Barry
Thomas
Steven
Declan
Fergus
Padraig
Fintan
Fergal

It's amazing how favoured names change with the times. There are lists here that don't contain a single name I would have encountered among my peers growing up. Also regional differences.

Girls:
Laura
Charlotte
Vicki
Emma
Holly
Sophie
Lucy
Jenny
Natalie
Rebecca

Boys:
Sam
Robert
Craig
James
Philip
Matthew
John
Paul
Ben
Daniel

80s up North!