Let's try an experiment.........

[CuppaTeaJanice]

Nearly every name suggested on here seems to have connotations for people based on where they've heard it before.

Think back to your schooldays, or your child's school. What are the names of...

1. The really pretty/handsome child that everyone fancies?
2. The kid that's great at sports?
3. The child that's really clever, good at all subjects and gets straight As?
4. The school bully?
5. The rebel that smokes behind the bike sheds?
6. The slightly strange child who is a bit of a loner?

It will be interesting to see if any names come up several times in any particular category!!

In my school...

1. Piers & Faye
2. Duncan & Amanda
3. Kerry & Hazel
4. Serena & (different) Amanda
5. Donna & Stephen
6. Tessa & Justin

1. Ian/Danielle
2. Gary/Michelle
3. Tyrone/Eileen
4. Mark/Michelle
5. Gary/Chantelle
6. Sean/Rene

1. The really pretty/handsome child that everyone fancies?

Jade and Sean

1. The kid that's great at sports?

Steven & Kate

1. The child that's really clever, good at all subjects and gets straight As?

Andrew & Eleanor

1. The school bully?

Caroline & Robin

1. The rebel that smokes behind the bike sheds?

Laila & Dan

1. The slightly strange child who is a bit of a loner?

Ruth & Neil

1. Max / Hannah
2. Ben / Melissa
3. Tim / Lucy
4. Danny / Daisy
5. Philip / Rebecca
6. James / Margaret

1. The really pretty/handsome child that everyone fancies? Jane/Phil
2. The kid that's great at sports?Tracey/Ian
3. The child that's really clever, good at all subjects and gets straight As? Phillipa/Mark
4. The school bully? Tracy/Adrian
5. The rebel that smokes behind the bike sheds? Adrian/Tracy (school bullies)
6. The slightly strange child who is a bit of a loner?

Alison/Bobby

1. The really pretty/handsome child that everyone fancies?
2. The kid that's great at sports?
3. The child that's really clever, good at all subjects and gets straight As?
4. The school bully?
5. The rebel that smokes behind the bike sheds?
6. The slightly strange child who is a bit of a loner?

1.Lorraine
2.Alex(andra)
3.Julie
4.Alison
5.Alison
6.Dorothy

It was a girls school.

1. Helen, Stephen
2. Joanne, Andrew
3. Katherine, Martin
4. Rachel, Michael
5. Desiree, Lesley, Andrew (not the sporty one), various others - actually not that rebellious at my school ;-)
6. Ann, Christopher

Jeremy and Karen

Jeremy and Karen

Susan

Gail

Gail

?

1. The really pretty/handsome child that everyone fancies? Adam / Katrina
2. The kid that's great at sports? Andrew / Kay
3. The child that's really clever, good at all subjects and gets straight As? Frances
4. The school bully? Sarah (2 of them, both called Sarah)
5. The rebel that smokes behind the bike sheds? Simon
6. The slightly strange child who is a bit of a loner? Emma and boy I can't remember name of who played trombone in school band.

Looking at everyone's responses it is ridiculously obvious how old everyone is by the names listed . I am obviously old fart.

1. The really pretty/handsome child that everyone fancies?

Lauren/Adam

1. The kid that's great at sports?

Laura/John

1. The child that's really clever, good at all subjects and gets straight As?

Amy/Matthew

1. The school bully?

Lois/Chris

1. The rebel that smokes behind the bike sheds?

Tara/Carl

1. The slightly strange child who is a bit of a loner?

Nimrat/Alex

I went to an all girls school so there's going to be a bit of a bias towards girls names.

1. Sophie/Leo/Niall/Greg (the last three were my high school crushes from a different school)
2. Paula/Fiona
3. Joanna/Esther
4. Michelle/Nicola
5. Clare
6. Maria

At my school in 1980's

1. The really pretty/handsome child that everyone fancies?

Tamsin/Michael/Nathan

1. The kid that's great at sports?

Steven/Melissa/Vanesha

1. The child that's really clever, good at all subjects and gets straight As?

Bill/Laura/David

1. The school bully?

Kelly/Steven/Tracey/Stacey

1. The rebel that smokes behind the bike sheds?

Samantha/Jarod/Tracey

1. The slightly strange child who is a bit of a loner?

David/Ruth

Ryan & Theresa
Anna & Mark
Alex & amy
Michelle & Mark
Lynsdey & jay
Tracey & Micheal

1. The really pretty/handsome child that everyone fancies?
2. The kid that's great at sports?
3. The child that's really clever, good at all subjects and gets straight As?
4. The school bully?
5. The rebel that smokes behind the bike sheds?
6. The slightly strange child who is a bit of a loner?

. Zoe/James

1. Sean/Sophie
2. Sian (with the hat accent thing)/Edward
3. Sam(antha)/William (went by his surname)
4. Stefan/Jeni
5. Amy (me )/Not sure of a boy.

1. Duncan, Debbie
2. Paul, Jo
3. Jonathan & Paul, Yvonne & Rachael
4. Julia (can't think of a male bully)
5. Nick & Ray (can't think of any girls)
6. Dennis and Corinne

1. Susanna (flirty rather than gorgeous) or Natasha/Andrew
2. Mark/no sporty girls
3. God at my school that would have been me....ha ha ha...it was a crap school!
4. Debbie (christ she was a bitch)
5. Samantha or Janet
6. Raymond/Lizzie? (Debbie broke her arm)

1. Melissa, Ruth, Lucy, Rosalind (Rosalind also an exceptionally nice girl btw)
2. Sally (x2)
3. Gemma, Rachael
4. Vicky, Katie, Siobhan (spelling??)
5. As 4 above
6. Claire, Molly

(went to all girls primary & secondary)

1. The really pretty/handsome child that everyone fancies?

Nicola

1. The kid that's great at sports?

Daniella

1. The child that's really clever, good at all subjects and gets straight As?

Claire

1. The school bully?

Claire

1. The rebel that smokes behind the bike sheds?

Nicola

1. The slightly strange child who is a bit of a loner?

Lindsay

1. The really pretty/handsome child that everyone fancies? Sam/Jenna
2. The kid that's great at sports? Ross/Sarah
3. The child that's really clever, good at all subjects and gets straight As? Jeremy and Ian/Francesca
4. The school bully? Tania/Steven
5. The rebel that smokes behind the bike sheds? Tania, Sam (girl this time)Daniel
6. The slightly strange child who is a bit of a loner? Melanie

1. The really pretty/handsome child that everyone fancies?

Angela & Martin

1. The kid that's great at sports?

Angela

1. The child that's really clever, good at all subjects and gets straight As?

Helen

1. The school bully?

Andrew

1. The rebel that smokes behind the bike sheds?

Jacqui

1. The slightly strange child who is a bit of a loner?

Juliet

pretty one was Iris
sports Helen
clever Catherine
bully Ann
strange Elfrida

no boys

1. The really pretty/handsome child that everyone fancies? Kylie Ian
2. The kid that's great at sports? Lorna Marc
3. The child that's really clever, good at all subjects and gets straight As? Bradley Rachel
4. The school bully? Didn't really have any bullying v frowned upon in my school
5. The rebel that smokes behind the bike sheds? Sarah Luke
6. The slightly strange child who is a bit of a loner? Samantha David

1. Ryan/Kellie The really pretty/handsome child that everyone fancies?
2. Steve/Melissa The kid that's great at sports?
3. Kay/Nick The child that's really clever, good at all subjects and gets straight As?
4. Nick/Samantha The school bully?
5. Mark/Karen The rebel that smokes behind the bike sheds?
6. Vicky/Phil The slightly strange child who is a bit of a loner?

Anybody noticing any patterns yet?

Michelles, Leannes and any girl with a name ending in a are tending to be bullies and rebels.

The clever kids on the whole seem to have ordinary, 'sensible' names, and the loners more unusual ones (maybe something to think about when looking for 'different' names for our kids?)

I'm hoping someone might have time to jot down all the names and find any that are cropping up a few times.....

1. The really pretty/handsome child that everyone fancies? Henry/Amy
2. The kid that's great at sports? Jake/Claire
3. The child that's really clever, good at all subjects and gets straight As? Stephen/Alison
4. The school bully? Rebecca
5. The rebel that smokes behind the bike sheds? Emma
6. The slightly strange child who is a bit of a loner? Tristan/Magnus