Which are the most commonly used names in your dd/ds class / school?

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Dd's class has 2 children called:

Emily
Nadia
Alex (boy)
Nikita (boy)
Cameron

Apart from Emily, I would have thought these names were fairly uncommon. Just curious to see which are the most popular names in your childs' school.

'Peachy - I think your school is posher than mine!!'

You should insert thinks it is ;posher LOL

you knows it Peach!

Only 24 in DD's one class year. 2 James, 3 Mia, 2 Hannah, 2 Katies.

I work in a junior school with 224 pupils -
Thomas x 7
Emma, Emily & James x6
Megan, Ben, Sam & Sophie x5

But this year's year 3 is unusual as it has 4 Sams, 4 Millies, 3 Harrys, 3 Alices, and 2 each of Matthew, James, Alex, Hannah and Josie - which means that almost half the year have to be identified with their surname letter.

When I was at school in the early 80s, the boys were all called Paul, Gareth, David, Mark or Christopher.

There were 20 boys and we were very grateful when Dean turned up.

In the class there are no duplicates, In the year (year 3) (2 classes) there are 2 Alices, 2 Bethanys, 2 Daniels, 2 Georgias, 2 Jacks, 2 Joshuas, 2 Morgans.

Most common names in school are:- boys, Matthew, Ben, Daniel, James, Samuel

Girls, Sophie, Emma, Emily, Chloe, Jessica

Not duplicates as such, but daughter's register at nursery ran:
Milly, Lily, Molly, Ollie, Ellie, Callie, Tully, Pim, Sam, Tom...

plus my v boring daughter.

Most common in my kids classes

Jack
Josh
Nathan
Chloe
Katie
Holly
George
Oscar
Caitlin
Matthew
Daniel
Thomas
Abigail

PussinWellies, that reminds me of DS's playgroup about 18 years ago - there was Hayley, Hayleigh, Kayleigh, Keeley, Kylie and Carly!

Alex, Thomas and Joseph all have 2 as well.

I taught a Year 3 class a few years ago and I had 3 Pauls, 3 Davids, 2 Bens (their surnames were almost identical too) and 2 Rebeccas. I had a nightmare!

In my DS school

Cameron seems very popular
Charlie (for boys and girls)

DD is the juniors

Josh
Sophie
Abbie

DS not in school yet. but I did a "School Ambassador" day in the summer where you go into schools and do fun exercises to show kids how great it is to be an engineer. In a combined 1yr and 2nd year infant class, (so 4/5 and 5/6 years olds I think), of about 40 there were something like 12 Joseph/Josefs and 9 Graces!

James/Jamie
Jessica

Three Camerons in DS1's class (more common in Scotland I think).

In dd's pre-school which only has about 15 children there are 2 of each:

Jessica
Alex
Kieran
Libby
Ellie (Elena/Eleanor)

Hannah, Alfie and Archie

There are 6 Hannahs in DDs year alone and it only has 2 classes per year!

5 Emilys and 4 Callums in ds's year three group.

ds1s class (year 4 so 8/9 yrs)

3 Charlies in class ( 7 in year group)
2 Sams (4 in year group)
2 Finlays
2 Joseph/Joes (6 in year group)
2 Bens

girls
seem to be lots of
Charlottes
Beths
Ellas
Phoebes
Amelia/Amelie/Emilia varients

Boys

Sam (4 in Nursery class)
Thomas 4
Louis 3
William 5
Oliver 3
Joe 2

Girls

Olivia 3
Lucy 3
Florence 2
Alice 2

In my son's of class of 34 there are
4 Laurens
3 Connors
2 Stellas.
In my daughter's class there's
2 more Laurens
3 Erins
3 Chloes
2 Charles

In our school there are a few of these names:
Jack
Harry
James
Theo
Caitlin
Eva
Charlotte

dd1 has two Mia's and two beth's for her close friends. Thank god she seems to like refering to people by their full names. Its much easier when she talks about Beth Jones and Beth Smith and Mia from school and Mia from dancing.

it might be because she has two nana Joans so she learned from an early that asking if she could phone Nana Joan was just going to cause confusion. We now have nana Joan from round the Nursery road and nana Joan from round our road.

Anna, your daughter is Flora? I love, love, love that name!

Joseph (there is 5 in dd's year alone), Rebecca (2 in her class), Erin/Ellie (loads in school), lots of Joshua's but can only think of one Chloe and there's a few (think it's 4 in her year) Amelia's.