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Post by jlynnbarth on Jul 22, 2014 21:04:23 GMT
I was born in 69. The most popular girls names in my class were Julie and and some form of Christina (Chrissy, Christy, Tina) and I swear all of their middle names were Marie.  The most popular boys names were Michael(Mike) and Christopher(Chris). |
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Post by bebe on Jul 22, 2014 23:00:58 GMT
I'm a Brenda, I know several Brenda's all around my age--haven't heard of anyone naming a baby Brenda in a long time. My granddaughter is a Lucy --after me-my middle name is Lou and my cousins called me Lucy as a child. The last few years in elementary school she has been the only Lucy in the building, but I think it's gaining popularity. I have heard other names from the 40's, 50's and 60's being used again and I do think they are being named after grandmothers and even great grandmothers.
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Post by SweetieBugs on Jul 22, 2014 23:13:02 GMT
There was only one other Lisa in my year at school and we were never in the same class. The most common girls' names when I was at school (I was born in early 70's) were Caroline and Lesley. Other popular ones were Claire, Shona, Susan, and Angela. The most common names now seem to be Niamh, Katie, Eilidh, Lucy, and Sophie. Take a look at my blog to find out what I've been up to
When I named my dd Angela, born in 1971, I was so proud of myself for coming up with that name. Ha ! Her preschool class was full of Angelas !!! Same thing with Melissa born a few years later. Oh well, we all really like both names.
This is interesting. I think the name must also be a bit regionally skewed as well. My name is Angela and I didn't meet another Angela in school until High School and there was only one other. In college, I never ran into another Angela as well. In fact, other than the Angela that works at the local grocery store, I haven't encountered personally another Angela since High School. Weird?? |
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Post by Nanner on Jul 22, 2014 23:46:38 GMT
Lots of Kims, Sandys and Sheilas, that I can remember.
ETA: Lots of Cathy/Kathys, as well.
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Post by JerseyJenn on Jul 22, 2014 23:59:06 GMT
I graduated from high school in 1988. Lots of Jennifers at my school, too. We all had to use our last initial to identify ourselves. I was Jennifer L.
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Post by finaledition on Jul 23, 2014 0:00:11 GMT
Jennifer (my sister's name, but she spelled it with 1 N), Melissa and Kim. I also knew a lot of Sheri's (spelled a variety of ways), but I don't know any Sheri's now. What happened to all the Sheri's -lol?
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Post by cycworker on Jul 23, 2014 0:04:29 GMT
I seem to recall a lot of Christines, Lisas, Jennifers. But school was a long time ago.   |
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Post by myboysnme on Jul 23, 2014 0:04:55 GMT
I think the most common names when I was in school were Debbie and Kathy.
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Post by zella on Jul 23, 2014 0:09:03 GMT
I was born in the early 60's in the UK. In my 5th-7th grade class, we had 3 girls out of 12 named Claire/Clare. Alison was also popular.
In my 8th/9th grade class of about 30, all girls, there were FIVE Janes, including a Jane Smith and a Jane Stuart-Smith! I could never
understand why they didn't split them up between the multiple classes in the grade.
When I came to the US, popular names Lisa, Sherry, Kelly, Kathy, Sue/Susan.
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Post by mom2jnk on Jul 23, 2014 0:25:43 GMT
I am a Michelle, born in 1966 and was one of FOUR Michelle's in my religious education class of about 40 kids. Crazy. Heavens only knows how many there were of us in my graduating class. Lots of Tracy/Tracey and Jennifers also. But I found it interesting that so many of you called out Melissa as one of the most common names. My younger sister was Melissa, but never had any others in her class...and we graduated in classes of over 600 kids!
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Post by RosieKat on Jul 23, 2014 0:36:26 GMT
Reading over what others have said, yes, I would agree with most of them. I went to so many frickin' schools that it's hard to remember! All I ever REALLY remember is that I always had to plan on being Jennifer S.  |
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Post by scrapApea on Jul 23, 2014 0:37:19 GMT
Class of '86 - Karen (there were 5 of those all different spellings), Chris or Kris (boys and girls), Lisa, Wendy, Mike & Dan
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2014 0:39:06 GMT
Class of '88, there were tons of Karens.
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Post by ingrid6 on Jul 23, 2014 0:40:04 GMT
Mary, Darlene, and Marie
When I had our oldest (she's 35 now) I thought I was being original with Jessica... wrong. Big names that year were Jessica and Jennifer.
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Post by Anita on Jul 23, 2014 0:40:50 GMT
This is interesting because you can tell how old people are just by the popular names. But, some of this is obviously regional. As in the OP, I have never met a Shona. As someone who delivers babies for a living, I can also say I have never delivered or heard of someone delivering a Niamh or an Eilidh! How funny that Shona came up as a common name somewhere. That is my youngest daughter's name and we have never met another one. On the down side, no one can ever pronounce it correctly in America. My dad is the biggest culprit. *sigh* My school was too small to have duplicate names. I graduated with 40 people. All the girls had "unique names" at the school. All the guys were named Billy or Bobby, though. When my oldest was born, we named her Kaitlin, then it seemed like there were suddenly 50 billion of them. To make matters worse, her middle name is Brittony. Oy. |
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Post by AussieMeg on Jul 23, 2014 6:07:16 GMT
I would have said Lisa, Julie, Karen and Megan because they were the most common names at my school in the 70's and 80's. I just looked on the Births Deaths & Marriages website and it gave me the top baby names in my state for 1967 - how cool! This is the top 20:
Michelle
Lisa
Karen
Susan
Sharon
Maria
Julie
Jennifer
Leanne
Kim
Helen
Fiona
Elizabeth
Donna
Joanne
Catherine
Tracey
Nicole
Sandra
Carolyn
And yes, I went to school with at least one girl with those names (except Maria - that was NOT common and I didn't know any Maria's back then.
I am surprised that Jennifer is in the top 10 because I just told Jenjie on another thread that the name Jennifer wasn't as popular here as in the US back then!
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Post by omarakbt on Jul 23, 2014 7:43:14 GMT
My first name. Debbie was the most popular girls name 1950, 51, 52, 53. In my fourth grade class there were 5 of us in a class of 30. I couldn't use my first name last initial because Randall came before Robinson, so I've used my middle name since 4th grade, only one Diane
I remember 2 Lindas, 2 Leslie's one male one female,
I remember Beth, Nadine, Judy and Jody, Sharon and Karen, Cindy and Lindy, three sets of twins in my grade
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Post by Kerri W on Jul 23, 2014 8:05:21 GMT
In my graduating class of 80ish the most popular names were Carrie and Jason. There were at least four of each and I think more Jason's. We were all born in the early 70s.
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Post by cmhs on Jul 23, 2014 11:17:57 GMT
Born in '62. In my grade school class, my name (Cecilia) was the most unusual. We didn't have a lot of repeats but the names were typical of that time -- Suzanne, Nancy, Elizabeth, Jackie, Lisa, Carol. We did have a Martha, Phyllis, and Irene which were not so common for girls that age.
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Post by iluvpink on Jul 23, 2014 11:24:33 GMT
I started school in the mid 70's, graduated in 1989, in Michigan. Jennifer and Amy were the popular names. My little sister is a Jennifer Marie (just don't call her that, it's Jennie!).
My name (Laurie) wasn't so popular, certainly not spelled that way but my middle name is Ann like just about every other girl I went to school with.
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The most popular boys names were Michael(Mike) and Christopher(Chris). 
