Names in your class when you were at school

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Inspired by the ‘names in your kids class thread’ what were the names (or some of the names) in YOUR class as a child? Feel free to add the decade or let people guess :)

Mine:
Girls- Katie, Zoe, Holly, Natalie, Danielle, Lauren, Rebecca x2, Eleanor, Laura, Chloe, Bethany, Lydia, Kayleigh

Boys- Joshua x2, Samuel, Ryan, Daniel, David, Christopher x2, Luke, Reece, Liam, Andrew, Adam

Girls: Julie, Samantha, Jacqueline, Sarah, Helen, Trina, Emma, Charlotte, Lisa, Kerry, Victoria, Harriet, Philippa, Katherine, Sally-Anne, Lindsay

Boys: Dominic, Stephen, Ian, David, Richard, William, Nicholas, Michael, James, Philip, Jodi, Timothy

Several Lynn/Linda, Rachel, Veronica, Fiona x2, Jane, Pamela, Diane, Bernadette, Kay, Anne, Janice, Jeanette, Lindsay, Jocelyn, Elaine, caroline

All girls school

Susan
Helen
Anita
Martha
Julie
Maria
Kathleen

Joseph
Seamus
Clifford
John (x2)
David
Charles
Paul (x2)

Laura, Ciara, Niamh, Emma, Sarah, Aisling, Orla.
Ciaran, Kevin, Paul, David, Sean, Jason, Stephen.

Karen x2, Julie x2, Debra x2, Tracey x2, Patricia x2, Talat, Lesley, Baljinder, Janice, June, Susan, Suzanne

Les, Lee, Andrew, Bruce, Ian, Ashid, David, John, Michael, Mark, Kevin, Satwinder, Matthew

Joanne, Fiona, Lorraine, Katherine, Ruth, Alexa, Belinda, 3 Lauras, Charlotte, Emma, Louisa, Caroline…can’t remember the rest.

No boys. It was all girls.

So many Emma’s, Emily’s and Hannah’s and lots of names like Becky, Laura, Sarah, Sophie
Lots of Bens and Toms and so many boys called James. James really was ridiculously popular
Can you guess the era?

Girls: about a zillions Nathalies, a zillion Kates, Joanne, Leila, Kylie, Joanna, Rachel, Sabrina, Lisa, Sarah, Christina, Stephanie, Nadia, Jenny, Julia

Boys: Phillip, James, David, Michael, Paul, Jacob, Nicholas.

I went to school in a very multicultural area of London so we also had a lot of names from other cultures but they would be too outing if someone else read this who went to school with me 🫣

Sally, Karen, Denise, Elaine, Cheryl, Jane, Susan, Debbie, Julie,
David, Christopher, Mark, Nicholas, Nigel, Martin, Andrew, Michael

Joanne, Karen, Deborah, Claire, Hilary, Louise, Susan, Samantha. Donna, Rachel, Charlotte, Elizabeth

Lee, Ian, Michael, Russell, Matthew, Richard, Paul, William, Christopher, Stephen, David, Mark

I can’t remember many people, I walked out of school and never spoke to anyone again, lol. But names were generally…

Nicky, Vicky, Michelle, Tracy, Sarah, Susan, Julie, Debbie
Steve, Kevin, Dave, Gary, Richard, Mark, Martin, Paul

Born 1967

All girls senior school. 4 C/Katherine’s in a single class and more across the year - but luckily most used different nicknames, although minimum 2 Sarah’s per class too.

At my mixed sex primary I remember there being more than one Christopher and James in a class (as well as more Sarah’s).

In comparison my DS has no duplicate names in his primary class, and in fact very few throughout the school. There is really such a wide spread of names now.

Susan (x 4), Linda (x2), Pamela, Carol, Jeanette, Jennifer, Elaine, June, Sylvia, Elizabeth, Anne

Christine
Nicola
Michelle
Sharon
Elaine
Lorraine
Lynda
Fiona
Bairbre
Siobhan
Niamh
Laura
Denise
Louise
Marie
Marie-Louise
Anne-Marie
Suzanne
Stephanie
Yvonne
Jacqueline
Valerie
Helen
Catherine
Margaret
Julie
Karen

Gen X checking in…

Michelle, Heather, Jennifer, Karen, Kimberly, Stephanie

John, Michael, James, David, Scott, Brian

Girls: Emily, Amy, Nicole, Alex, Carly, Hannah, Georgia

Boys: Alex, Connor, Jack, Sam, Ben, Daniel, Harry

Primary:

Steven x 4
Paul x 2
Gary
Colin
Ian
Julie
Julia
Amanda
Tracey
Poonam

Secondary (all girls - Catholic):

Fiona x 4
Clare x 3
Helen x2
Lucia
Jane
Anna
Ewa (Polish - pronounced Eva)
Marisa
Geraldine
Siobhan
Maria

Joanne
Joanne
Rebecca
Faye
Louise
Nicola
Claire
Zoe
Lorraine
Tanya
Amanda
Chloe
Sarah
Ursula
Jayne
Alison
Karen
Vanessa

David
Marcus
Neil
Lee
Adrian
Jamie
Ali
Lloyd
Andrew
Alan
Scott
Darren
Craig
Jason

Valerie, Linda, Fiona(x2),Tracey,Sharon,Susan(x4),Carol,Gillian,Mary,Judith,Heidi,Hazel,Karen,Elaine,Alison.Lynn

David,Paul(x2),Gordon,Colin,Andrew,Michael,Graham,Brian,DerekRonald,Craig,James,Phillip,Ian,Stuart,Kenneth,Callum
Some of these names are from primary school and some from high school.

Laura, Rachel, Amy, Emma, Emily, Rebecca, Hannah
Euan, Cameron, James, Andrew, Ryan, Matthew, Scott

Lisa Lesley Dawn Helen Catherine Denise Susan Suzanne Wendy Karen Tracey Sharon Julie Jackie Pamela Cheryl Claire Hazel Belinda Barbara Christine Malandra Deena Carol Beverly Lynne Anna Fiona Penny Rita Elizabeth Gaynor Natalie Paula Jane Elaine Gillian

Steven Michael Dean Billy Barry Gareth Warren Mark Carl Stuart Wayne Christopher James John Alan Brian Winston Dennis Jan Darren Elliot Louis Alasdair Keith Peter Andrew George Gregory Timothy Sonny Zephyrus Liam Rupert Kevin

Joanne, Michelle, Amy, Siobhan, Amanda, Laura, Vicky, Jodie, Emma, Becky, Katie, Helen, Diane, Natasha, Kelly, Clare, Rachel, Marie, Jenny, Nadine, Abigail, Samantha, Naomi

Stephen, Bobby, Stuart, Kieran, Wayne, Edward, Peter, Joe, Ben, Chris, Mark, Michael, Adrian, Thomas, Leon, Luke, Matthew, Gavin, Simon, Richard, Adam, Lewis

Girls: Stacey, Rebecca, Sarah (x2), Zoe, Hayley (x2), Rachel, Kelly.

Boys: John, Brett, Mark, Richard, Gary, Colin, Wesley, Leon, Paul.

1989-1994

Nicola Kerry Kelly Toni Debbie Helen Emma Victoria Angela Sarah Louise Laura Michelle Sharon Claire

David Alan Ian Matthew Chris Steven Shaun John Daniel Adam

born in 1979

Julie Alison Sharon Jackie Anne Pamela Melanie Joanne Catherine Susan Debbie Sally

Mark David Keith Andrew Ian Paul Craig Roy John Stephen