Popular names when you went to school

My name hasn't been popular since 17th century - if it was then.

I rather like Muriel.
It sounds like the noise kittens make.

Allira

I was nearly called Muriel 😯

You're terrible, Muriel!

A lucky escape! I’ve often wondered how anyone could saddle a poor, innocent little new baby with a name like Muriel.

My mother (born 1935) has friends called Rita, June, Margaret, Lilian, Eileen, Hazel and Brenda. Men are Brian, Gordon, Eric, William (or Bill) Ronald and Jim.

I quite like Evelyn. The person called this can always either call themselves Eve or Lyn if they don’t like the entire name.

Linda, Susan, Mary, Jennifer
John, Derek, David, Michael

Grandma70s

My best friend at school was called Evelyn, rather unusual in the 1950s. Oddly enough, my mother’s closest friend was also called Evelyn. It is coming back into fashion. Funny how some names do and some don’t.

My maternal Grandmother was called Eveline. My paternal Great-Grandmother was called Emmeline.

I heard of a baby Evelyn the other day.

My best friend at school was called Evelyn, rather unusual in the 1950s. Oddly enough, my mother’s closest friend was also called Evelyn. It is coming back into fashion. Funny how some names do and some don’t.

We had Susan, Janet, June, Jane, Margaret, Hazel, Elaine, Lesley, Catherine, Anne, Pamela, Linda and me. In our huge, mixed grammar school there was 1 other person with the same name as me. She loved it and revelled in being differen. I hated it!

I went to Grammar school in 1948 and I remember, Barbara, Brenda, Betty, Elaine, Hilary, Wendy, Glenys, Stephanie, Marjorie, Jean, Joan, Maureen and Margaret, sure to be others but I forget.
Boys were called by their surname so can’t remember many but Peter, Nigel, Geoffrey,Miles, Adrian and Colin amongst our friends.

In my school, we had a lot of Julies, Elaines and Deborahs.

Oh yes Diane, how could I forget, one of my best friends when I left school - for she was a year ahead of me so we never became friends then - was called Diane. She died several years ago. Only ever called her Di.

Three Judiths (two shortened to Judy), Diane (or Dianne), Jennifer (Jenny), Barbara, Mary, Marie (one whose surname was Gold so MarieGold 🙂).

They really are lovely names in fact but out of fashion now as we're back to names from my mother's era.

My name is so old-fashioned that in a school of 1,000pupils I was the only one of that name. Lots of Linda’s, Susan’s, Robert’s, Geoffrey’s.
I was a teacher and have never taught anyone of my name.

Margaret, Pamela, Susan, Diane, Patricia, Brenda, Maureen, Linda, Doreen.
Tony, Derek, John, Brian, Trevor.

Both my grandmothers, and grandfathers names are widely used these days, I can’t imagine my mothers name will ever come back into fashion, I think Sara might be less popular now, although both of my daughters have friends called Sarah, but with an H

Two not myo, that was a typo.

Oh,mywo more: Jane and Sarah.

Elizabeth, Nicola, Susan, Angela, Margaret, Julia, Jennifer, Lynn, Rosalind. Michael, Paul, Stephen, Phillip, James, Thomas, Nicholas, Nigel, Robert, Jonathan. 1960s.

Linda Susan Janet Margaret Mary Carol
Keith Colin Malcolm Roy Dave Terry

50s/60 s.

I went to an all-girls school, so the names were Mary, Margaret, Dorothy, Anne, Sheila, Elizabeth, and Maureen. This was in the mid-to-late 1950s. There was nothing exotic or what I would term old-fashioned.

Pretty much the same names as have already been posted.

Karen, Joanne, Mary, Catherine, Melanie, Deborah, Christine Heather, Susan, Jacqueline (Jackie), Beverley, Tracey, Anne, Michelle

Peter, John, Paul, Nigel, David, Richard, Colin, Roger, Kevin, Michael, Philip, Mark, Ian

Maureen and Mauveen

Felicity, Hazel, Edna, Maureen, Maureen, Yvonne, Constance - 1960’s.

The most unusual name at our school was Greta, a German girl who only stayed a year or so but got all the boys in a flap because she was extremely pretty and could say rude words in German. The most unusual boy’s name was Walter, old fashioned by then, obviously he was named after someone and got a terrible ribbing from the other kids for it.