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

90% of the girls were some version of Catherine. Kate, Katie, Katy, Kat, Katherine, Catherine. The rest were Emily and Emma!

And yes, why was everyone's middle name Louise??

Girls: Sarah, Catherine / Katherine / Kathryn, Joanne, Anna, Michelle, Amie / Aimee, Nicola, Caroline, Amelia, Rebecca … I think these were the only names that we had more than one of in the year.

I don’t remember the boys from primary and I went to a girls’ secondary school. But among my brother’s classmates I seem to remember that it was far more common to have duplicate names in every class. They were basically all called James, Matt, Mark, Andrew or Chris (Catholic school so lots of saint’s names!).

Girls:

Clare
Sarah
Alison
Nicola
Joanne
Laura
Katy
Lisa
Sharon
Michelle
Julie
Amanda
Emma
Louise

Boys:

Andrew
David
Lee
Adam
Ben
Jonathan
Richard
Dean
James
Gary
Carl
Alistair
Steven
Daniel
Jason
Darren
Matthew
Sean

What a fun question! :)

Girls I can remember: Cheryl, Carol, Alison, Susan, Deborah, Julie, Karen, Ann (no e), Sharon, Michaela.

Boys: I didn't like the boys enough to remember them! :D I can only think of John, Keith, Sean.

Feel free to take a guess at my age. :)

I'm guessing you were a 90s child, OP?

For me it was:-

Sarah, Laura, Sam(antha), Claire, Emma, Rebecca (Becky), Rachel, Gemma, Carly, Danielle Victoria(Vicky), Michelle, Amy, Louise

Daniel, Michael, Matthew, David, James, Jason, Chris(topher), Adam, Andrew, Mark, Carl/Karl, Steven/Stephen, Anthony (Tony)

The same reason as why they're all Rose, May or Grace now. Trends.

Lyn, Anne, Gillian x 2, Christine, Paula, Elizabeth, Lizzie, Sandra, Judith, Annette, Linda, Betty, Jeanette, Margaret, Mary, Anita, Helen, Ruth, Janet. Elaine, Kathleen, Carol, Gina. Jane, Pauline, Lorraine, Susan.

All girls, private Catholic - I was a scholarship kid.😁

Pamela, Patricia, Susan, Pauline/Paula, Denise, Ann/Annette and the odd really unusual one like Fionnula, Regina etc.

Late 60's as you can tell.🤣

Multiples of Helen, Emma, Gemma, Sarah, Victoria, Hayley, Rebecca, plus Erica, Donna, Debbie, Ruth

Multiples of Simon, Paul, John, Ian, Graham, Chris, plus Mark, Marcus, Dave

Girls all seemed to have either Jane or Louise as a middle name!

Girls: Karen, Sharon, Tracy, Rachael, Lisa, Alison, Deborah, Nicola, Louise, Natalie
Boys: James, Christian, Nicholas, Daryl, Andrew, Ian, Paul, Matthew, Craig, Mark

Laura, Kirsty, Sally, Catherine, Kathryn, Rebecca, Joanne

Edward, Jack, Thomas, Benjamin, Timothy, Oliver, Paul

Emma, Helen, Claire, Sarah, Karen, Louise, Amanda, Philippa, Jane, Katie, Joanna, Becky, Rachel, Susie, Kerry, Lucy

Mark, Nick, Andrew, Richard, Steven, Christopher, James, Jonathan, Matt, Timothy, Ben, Tom, Nick, Adam, Craig,

Everyone was called Sarah or Kate, middle name Louise.

Can't remember them all but included:

Sally, Mandy, Lynda, Paula, Karen, Jackie, Frances, Jean.

Richard x2, Michael, Dale, Trevor, Robert, Mark, Paul.

Julie, Wendy, Cheryl, Vanessa, Sarah (loads of them), Helen (ditto), Anne, Samantha, Pippa and Isobel (the 2 posh girls ;)
John, Tim, Roderick, Guy, Colin, David, Gary, Kevin.

I am quite old.

Keith, Jason, Karen, Michelle, Jean, Fleur, Roger, Claire, Joanne, Rachael, Christopher, Simon

Sarah, Katie and all the Catherine variations, Rachel, Hannah, Laura, Rebecca, Emily, Emma, Jennifer, Lyndsey, Gemma/Jemma

Jonathan, Adam, Matthew, Stuart, David, Nick, James/Jamie, Ben, Andrew, Tom, Sam, Joe

Mark, Duncan, Michael, Richard, Adam, James, Justin, Adrian , David, Paul & Stuart.

Theresa, Deborah, Rachael, Heather, Melanie, Lesley, Kirsty, Sally, Sarah, Stella, Hazel, Sharon & Phillipa.

Born in 1972/73

Loads of Sarah’s and Claire’s, Joanna, Nicola, Victoria, Rachel, Karen, Alison, Emma, Hannah, Hayley, Cheryl, Michelle, Charlotte

David, Alex, Mathew, Jonathan, Ben, Simon, Alex, Paul, Mark, Mathew, James, Jamie, Phillip

Boys: Gregory, Justin, Jamie, Mark, Zachary, Jason

Girls: Caroline, Sarah, Kelly, Nikki, Kirsty, Hayley,

Claire, Rachel, Rebecca, Jennifer, Sarah, Sara, Kate, Katherine, Catherine, Jessica, Natalie, Elizabeth.

Jamie, James, Mark, Matthew, John, Stuart, Chris, Simon

I remember in the 80s/90s, loads of girls at school were called Hayley, Leanne and Gemma. For some reason I very rarely come across grown-up women with these names now! Where are they all?

Catherine, Caroline, Charlotte, Crystal, Sarah, Diana, Davina, Debbie, Lauren, Alexandra, Briony, Gemma, Nicola, Chloe, Emily, Eleanor, Josephine, Martha, Rachael, Isobel, Imogen