Popular names when you went to school

In my kitchen I have a tea towel that covers my toaster when it’s not in use and it was made in 2010 when GS was at nursery school, when they drew a picture of themselves and their names were printed underneath. There some lovely girls names - lots of Isabelle’s, a couple of Tilly’s and Georgia’s, Beatrice, Hannah, Honor, Antonia, Freya, an Elsie, Grace and a Doreen. Boys are, among others, a clutch of Charlie’s, a Finn, Gabriel, two Henry’s, a bevy of Benjamins, a Sebastian and a couple of Jude’s. Interesting to see the changes in fashion for names down the years.

Perhaps my own (disliked) name will come back into fashion, probably not in my lifetime.

Can imagine it being used as a trendy middle name actually, but neither of my two GD’s have been blessed with it.

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.

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

Maureen and Mauveen

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

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.

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

50s/60 s.

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

Oh,mywo more: Jane and Sarah.

Two not myo, that was a typo.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.