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

Sarah, Anne, Alison, Margaret, Jane, Janet, Carol, Linda, Jenny, Lesley, Catherine, Nicola, Claire

All girls primary in the 2000s, we had Alice, Emma, Stephanie, Bryony, Rachel , Saskia, Cathy, Nina, Amy, Nicky, Jemma, Katie, Kate, Anna, Gabrielle, Louise, Jessica and Lucy.

Karen, Lindsay, Julie, Heather, Ann, Nina, Ruth, Carolyn.

Arthur, Kevin, John, Paul, Peter, Daniel, Jeremy, Andrew, Dennis, Lionel, Ian, Roger, Neil.

I was born in the early eighties. I remember my primary class as it was pretty small.

girls in my class: Imogen, Freya, Gemma, Megan, Laura, Kate, Emma, Georgina, Eleanor, Olivia

boys: max, Thomas, Caleb, Richard, Daniel, Ben, Joel, Freddie

Amanda, Samantha, Alison, Lyndsey

Stuart, David, Mark, Ian,

Karen, Julia, Eleanor, Diana, Susan, Isobel, Margaret, Veronica, Ann-Marie, Elizabeth, Jane, Polly, Jennifer, Penny, Sheila, Juliet, Dinah, Geraldine, Clare…
we also had a Ghislaine but it was pronounced Gizz lane.

All girls school …. Vanessa, Louise, Tracy, Kelly, Anthea, Laura, Debbie, Susan, Sandy, Kathleen

Leanne, Katie, Rebecca, Sarah, Nathan, Ben, Adam, Danny, Michael, Gemma, Jenny.

My year 6 class
Boys: Andrew, Spencer, Darren, Jon, Martin, Connell (he was Canadian), Scott, Patrick, Roy, Denis, Peter, Niall, Marc, Matthew

Girls: Catherine, Siobhan, Samantha, Nicola, Moira, Nuala, 2xSharon, Justine, Emma, Sarah, Hilary, Lisa, Angela

Year 7 boys: Jason, Francesco, Richard, Luke, 3x Christopher, 2xAndrew, Aaron, Terence, Graham, Michael, 2xMark, 2xRobert, Keith

Year 7 girls: Carolyn, Jennifer, Deborah, 3xElizabeth but one went by Lisa, 2xHelen, Joanne, Monica, Pauline, Rachel, Purita (short for Purificacion as she once told us, crying with laughter, she was great), Lynn

Leanne and Lisa
Darren and Mark

girls: Catherine, Joanne, Emma, Laura, Elizabeth, Vicky, Hayley, Helen

boys: Daniel, Gareth, Oliver, Anthony, Graham, Christopher

I think I'm from an era where most people had the same name to be honest. There were 3 Emma's in my primary school class.

Ruth x2
Rachel
Rebecca
Belinda
Laura
Ilona
Romana
Roxana
Joanna
Charlotte (Charlie)
Claire
Caroline
Amy
Numera
Kylie

Stephen
Steven
Euan
Ewan
Stewart
Thomas
Charles x2 (both known as Charlie)
Richard
Roland
Christopher
Fahan
Kenneth (Kenny)
Iain
Peter

Victoria, Katie, Lisa, Catherine, Anna, Annabel, Louise and about a million Sarahs.

Sarah, Kate, Rebecca, Gemma, Michelle, Caroline, Hannah, Claire, Samantha, Joanne

Mark, Simon, Damien, Christopher, James, Robert, Steven, Graham, Malcolm

60s - early 70s primary
Deborah
Jane
Toni
Lisa
Ayesha
Tracey
Lyn
Susan
Marine
Stephanie
Sarah
Melody
Jackie
Amanda
Kim

Stewart
Thomas
Paul
Steven
John
Maurice
Mark
Terry
Martin
James
Crispin
Neil
Adrian

Susan, Debbie, Janine, Gillian, Helen, Andrea, Anne, Sharon, Paula, Joanne, Julie/Julia, Rachel, Lisa, Alison, Kerry, Kelly, Kirsty, Jackie, Mandy, Hazel, Samantha, Lorraine, Wendy.

I doubt there’ll be any trouble guessing the decades in which I went to school!

Secondary school in the 90's
Multiples of Laura, Rachel, Rebecca, Joanne, Nicola, and Claire/Clare
Helen, Sophie, Carly, Melanie, Samantha, Emma

and yes, 90% of middles were Louise (including mine!)

Multiples of Lee, James, Daniel, Jon, Chris, Alex

Susan, Jane, Pat, Pamela, Christine, Ann, Margaret, Julie, Sharon, Ruth, Judith, Elaine, Nina, Joy, Kim, Barbara, Nicola, Yvonne, Linda, so many Gillians
Paul, Peter, Tony, Ian, Andrew, Colin, Stephen, Terry, Billy, Michael, Micky, Alan, Kevin
Yes I'm old!

oh my, there a memory test:

Zoe
Eluned
Sarah
Bridget
Rachel
Leila
Felicity
Morwenna
Kizzy
Rebecca
Kirsty
Serena
Romalie
Jessica
Victoria (two of them)
Elizabeth

All girls school!

Primary school from early 70s
David, Paul, Robert, Stephen, Alan, Jonathan, Gary, Mark, Andrew, John. Multiples of a good few.
Angela, Sarah, Catherine, Rachel, Linda, Debbie, Tracey, Helen, Gillian, Jackie, Karen: also duplicated a few times.
I've left out the less easily dated ones. My parents had a last minute change of heart when I was born, meaning I was the only pupil in my primary year with my name, as were both my siblings. None of us is called anything remotely unusual.

Girls - Sarah, Susan, Mandy, Samantha, Victoria, Anna, Jennifer.

Boys - Matthew, Michael, Andrew, Steven, Gary, Adam, Kevin, John, Brian.

Those that I remember (it was a long time ago!):

Emma
Rebecca
Rachel
Nicola x 2
Claire
Gaynor
Natalie
Tina
Zoe

Michael x 3
Andrew x 2
Philip
Ian
Wayne
Daniel
John

Girls were all Beckys, Hannahs, Sarahs, Laurens and Kirstys

Boys were all Connors, Lukes, Toms, Sams and Bens

Can’t remember many names except there were lots of Susan’s and Linda’s!!

You can tell the age from the names

Mary, Margaret, Agnes, Joan, Lesley, Elaine, Evelyn, Marian, Anne, Sadie,
Jean, Martha, Netta, Isabel, Sandra, Gladys , Christine , Fiona, Betty, Elizabeth

John, William, Thomas, George, James, Jimmy, Kenneth, Iain, Ewan, Findlay, Alastair, Stuart, Dougie, Walter, Archie