What were the most popular names at your school?

[jasminnie]

I am a 1995 baby and the most popular names at my school were:

Jack
Sophie
Sarah
Emily
Benjamin
Samuel
Megan
Grace
Joshua
Hannah
Daniel

What were yours?

Sharon
Clare
Debbie
Amanda
Susan
Jane

Michael
Simon
1970s

I'm a 1983 baby. We seemed to have a lot of Gemma's all the way through primary and secondary school. And quite a few David's on the boys side.

Clare Sarah Emma Emily Jennifer Laura

Born in the early 80s

And I never went to a mixed school hence why no boys names!

at primary school in the 80s

samantha
natalie
nicola

terry
wayne
daniel

At primary school in the 70s, we had six girls named Sarah in my class.

Born in 1962 in South Wales. Susan, Karen, Judith, Vanessa, Tracey, Sharon were very popular. For boys Michael, David, Steven & Paul

Sarah (had 4 in my class at one point!)
Jessica
Jennifer
Claire

David
Chris
Michael
James
Simon

Late 80s/ early 90s

Mid 80s baby

All girls were Emma, Rachel or Sarah
All boys were Luke, Matty or Tom

No other names existed

My dc's classes have no kids with the same names.

1979 baby, so secondary school in 90s- the names I remember most multiples of were Catherine / Kate in various forms, Matt/ Matthew and Christophers who were all shortened to Chris.

Also quite a lot of Sarah, Claire, Emma, Jane, Caroline, Andrew, Gavin, Steve.

At school in the 1980s.
Girls, I seem to remember quite a few Amys, Sarahs, Jennifers and Lauras. I grew up mostly in Scotland, so there were more Scottish names among them too - I remember Eilidh and Catriona being fairly popular.

Boys - I remember a lot of Alexanders and Davids, other names we heard a lot would be Andrew, James/Jamie, Callum, Cameron, or Stephen/Steven.

I have a non-British name, so didn't have anyone with the same name as me in my school back then! But my kids have grown up around far more kids with non-British parents and my name isn't that uncommon now.

1950s - 1960s
Susan
Linda
Janet
Lynne
Jane
Carol
Diane
Julie

Sarah
Helen
Claire
Rachel
Lindsey
Donna
Jackie
Vicky
Alison
Gemma
Tracy

David
Stephen
Matthew
Jonathan
Paul
Mark
Barry
Chris
Jamie
Anthony
Gary
Simon
Keith

1970s

Late 80s baby, at primary in the 90s and secondary in the 00s. We're late 30s now:-

Sarah
Laura
Rachel/Rachael
Claire/Clare
Amy
Emma
Samantha (Sam)
Rebecca (Becky/Becca/Bec)
Danielle
Michelle
Gemma
Hayley
Charlotte
Nicola
Victoria (Vicky/Vic)

Daniel
Michael
Matthew
Steven/Stephen
David
Christopher (Chris)
Robert
James/Jamie
Andrew (Andy)
Lee
Jason
Craig
Carl/Karl
Timothy (Tim)

I've only put in brackets the name which were always inevitably shortened. Obviously some of the others were too, depending on individual preference.

Sarah
Nicola
Claire
Tracey
Michelle
Sharon
Joanna
Kate
Alison
Rebecca

Born late 70’s

Sarah
Karen
Claire
Emma
Helen
Joanne
Nicola

Mark
Timothy
David
James
Matthew
Steven
Andrew

born late 80s

christopher
matthew
william
david
james
andrew
benjamin
thomas
robert
alexander

sarah
laura
hannah
emma
lucy
jessica
rebecca
rachel
jennifer
catherine/ Katie/ kate
elizabeth
alexandra
charlotte
amy
caroline
victoria
louise
nicola
georgina

Susan
Tracy
Dawn
Linda
Claire
Wayne
Stewart
Ian
Gary
Stephen

1977 baby
Lucy
Donna
Deborah
Karen
Kelly
Claire
Sarah

I forgot Sally

Sharon
Tracey
Linda
Paula
Karen

Michael
David
John
Mark

at school 1989-2000

multiple laura, Katherine/catherine/kate/katie, and Claire/clare in my year at secondary, maybe 6 of each.

samantha, Charlotte, Natalie, Amy also popular.

daniel, James, samuel, Wayne, Matthew, Richard, Benjamin for boys. Always shortened to Dan, Jamie, sam, Matt, rich, Ben

it’s funny how limited kids names were back then! I feel like you get all sorts now (and rightly so)

I was born in '86 so started school in '90.
Thinking back to what names there was more than one of in my class;

Claire
Catherine/Katherine
Oliver
Laura
Matthew
Daniel
James
Timothy

I noticed very early on that a huge amount of girls my age have Louise as their middle name and I can't to this day work out why there was a massive surge in that name as a middle name in 86/87. I haven't seen such popularity in any other age group with any other name but it was like a vast majority of girls of my age had the middle name of Louise.

Sarah
Catherine
Emma
Karen
Sharon
Tracey
Teresa
Joanne
Lucy
Victoria
Nicola
Helen
Jackie

Tim
Christopher
Steven
Andrew
James
Paul
Ian
Peter
Carl

Mid 80s born lots of Sarahs, Rachels, Lucys, Amys, Catherine variants, Rebeccas, Claires, Jenny, Hannah, Laura

Boys Steven, Peter, Oliver, Matthew, James, Tom, Jack (before it really got big), David, Adam, Luke, Gregory, Daniel, Mark, Jonathan

A lot of classic and biblical names really. Gemma , Bradley and Lauren a bit more trend led