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

Catherine, Samantha, Aimee, Lisa, Ruth, Jenny, Louise, Nancy.

Girls: Heather (x2), Lucy, Rebecca (Becky), Amy, Stephanie, Joanne (x2), Amanda, Alison, Rachel, Victoria (Vicky), Elizabeth (Liz), Lisa, Michelle, Keeley, Kelly, Lauren.

Boys: Daniel (x3), Gareth, James, Michael, Stephen, Jamie, Christopher, Nigel, Lee, Christian, Philip, John.

This was at primary school in the 80s; secondary school added Jennifer (Jenny), Hayley, Hilary, Kate, Claire, Samantha, Christina, Catherine, Holly, Kathryn and Melissa amongst the girls, and Matthew, Robert, Simon, Ben, Tom, Ross, Adam and Sam amongst the boys.

Many Sarahs and Claires; Helen, Emma and Rachel were also popular. At one school my class also had two Sallys and two Charlottes.

Middle names were almost invariably Jane, Louise or Marie.

Girls:- Sarah, Nicola, Claire, Helen, Linda,Jane, Annette, Elizabeth, Frances, Alison.
Boys:- Gary, Mark, David, Roger, Anthony,Ian, Steven, Paul, Michael, Jeremy.

This was early 1970s.

1980s: Catherine, Lowenna, Sarah, Zara, Victoria, Rebecca, Jessica, Bridget, Rachel, Seren, Eluned.

Girls: Sarah, Laura, Gemma, Charlotte, Lucy, Emma, Fay, Michelle, Claire, Rebecca, Emily, Louise

Boys: Sam, Matthew, Craig, Daniel, Richard, Paul, Ben, Ryan, David, Luke

90s!

Tina, Lisa, Nina, Elizabeth, Nicola, Erika, Sally, Clare, Anya, Beverley, Hilary, Rebecca, Amanda, Helen.

Simon, Stewart, Andrew, Matthew, Gavin, Benedict, Robert, Giles, Paul, Sebastian, James, Aaron.

Emma, Sarah, Jennifer, Charlotte, Chloe, Amanda, Kate, Kylie, Gemma, Nicole, Lydia, Katherine/Katie, Victoria, Roxanne

Alexander/Alex, Matthew, Stuart, Jonathan, Steven, Simon, Andrew, Duncan, Timothy, Robert

Can't remember everyone but boys:
Daniel Kevin Keith Douglas James Dean Richard Kyle Louis
Claire Jessica Louise Emily Kimberley Charlotte Laura Hayley

Adam, Tyler, Nathan, Ryan, Jamie, Jack, Kevin, Anthony, Matthew, Joshua

Emily, Jade, Samantha, Elizabeth, Holly, Siobhan, Amy, Melissa, Hannah, Amanda

Senior school (all girls)
JulieX2
NicolaX2
ClareX2
JaneX2
Sarah X2
KatherineX2 (although one was known as Kate.
JaneX2
JoanneX2. There were at the very least 2 Joannes In each class.

None In my class but there were an abundance of Lisas and Michelles

Girls -
Alexandra x3, Sarah-Louise, Amy-Louise, Tamara, Paige, Vanessa, Nicola, Charlotte

Boys -
Daniel x2, Liam, Grant, Tariq, Jamie, Michael, Christopher, Richard

(secondary school, 2003-2007 - these were only the ones I could recall!)

I can't remember all of them (especially not the 'stinky boys'!):

First primary school, South East England, early 90s:
Rebecca X 2, Kimberly, Lizzie, Anjali, Ria, Hollie, Crystal, Emily, Laura, Amy X 2, Annamarie, Cherry
Wesley, David, Dean, Christopher X 2, James X 2, Matthew

Second primary school, North West England, mid 90s:
Lorraine, Karen, Lindsey X 2, Kirsty, Kim, Jamie, Robyn, Rebecca, Carrie-Ann
Craig, Gary, Richard, Shane, Sean, Paul

Secondary school (later 90s/early 00s) - some the same people as primary but others I remember:
Nicola, Emma, Donna, Helen, Hannah, Rebecca, Joanna, Laura, Amy, Fiona, Beth, Sarah X 2
Andrew X 2, Chris X 2, David X 2, Michael, Daniel, Thomas, Scott, Matthew

Claire, Nicola, Natasha, Amelia, Sarah, Rachel, Cerys,
90's

Donna, Louise, Victoria, Tracey, Beverley, Leanne, Sarah, Rebecca

Paul, Mark, Richard, Nicolas, Jay, Nathaniel, Simon, Ian, Darren, Jonathon, Christopher, Christian, Scott,

There were lots of kids from a different cultural background at my school, which skewed the results a bit. But the most common mainstream English names at all my schools were usually:

Louise
Jane
Clare
Sarah
Rachel
Michelle
Catherine/Kathryn
Susan
Helen

David
Andrew
Mark
Michael
Simon
Robert
Stephen
Matthew
Lee

Lots of Rachels, Asheigh (variety of spellings), Amys. For boys Scott, James, Jamie, Aaron (lots of spellings), Christopher

Girls: Tracey, Jane, Elizabeth, Karen, Julie, Emma, Nicola x2 , Jill, Sarah, Carole, Geraldine

boys: Sean, David, Jeremy, Paul x3, Stuart, Angus, Andrew x2, Matthew, Nicholas

Girls:
Sharon, Diane, Sarah, Claire, Pamela, Julie, Lynn, Alison, Tracy,Samantha, Maxine.
Boys:
Charles, Darren, Dean, Stephen, Ian, Wayne, Michael, Anthony, Guy.

Paul, Simon, Michael, Greg, Robert, Matthew, Mark, Peter, Phillip, Timothy, Jerry, Daniel, Jason
Emma, Samantha, Nicola, Deborah, Joanna, Clare, Louise, Lisa, Maxine, Fiona
1970s children

We had multiples of
Becky, Katie, Hannah, Lauren, Elly, Sophie, Jen, Clare, Amy

Tom, Josh, Ben, Sam, Joe, Jamie, Jack, Rob, Andrew

Plus many names from round the world. Secondary in late 90s

a fair few Claire’s / Clare’s , Joanna, Hannah, Anna

Boys Daniel, Louis , Lee, Adam, Gareth, Kevin and Jason

Jill, Helen, Vicky, Avril, Lottie, Amanda, Joanne, Debbie, Claire, Ann
Neil, Darren, John, David, Paul, Robin, Mark, Lee, Adam, Chris, Michael -,All born in 1970/71.

Marie
Susan
Margaret
Linda
Barbara
Christina
Ann
Anne

Joseph
Mark
Barry
Kevin
John
Peter
Paul

Late 60's.

(Off the top of my head)

80s secondary, all girls, mostly my class but some in other forms in my year.

Joanne
Sarah
Wendy
Sally
Elizabeth
Margaret
Deborah
Emma
Juliet
Laura
Katy
Catherine
Sally Anne
Lucinda
Una
Dominica
Julia
Siobhan
Geraldine
Naomi
Natalie
Frances
Victoria
Marie
Caroline
Melanie
Claire
Samantha
Nicola
Fiona

Tim
Troy
Leon
Barry
David
Rodney
Roderick
Richard
Stirling
Glenn
Ewan
Bruce
Ross
Ian
Kim
Janet
Robin
Roslyn
Wendy
Carolyn
Frances
Margaret
Rosemary
Amanda
Helen
Sally
Zara
Ann