I was thinking this morning after reading some responses to one of my earlier posts about the popularity of names. I started to think about my pupils’ names and then tried to figure out what the most popular names might have been that year for their age group; once I did that I went to try and find the actual lists for [name_f]England[/name_f] and [name_m]Wales[/name_m] and I was quite surprised.
I teach kids from around 1998 to 2002/3 so I’m only going to do these years. Next to the names I’m going to put the number of pupils that I personally teach who have these names - my classes range from about 28 to 22 pupils.
So in 2003 the top ten for girls were:
[name_f]Emily[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Ellie[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]Chloe[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Jessica[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]Sophie[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Megan[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Lucy[/name_f] - 2
[name_f]Olivia[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] - 3 (thankfully they all go by different names: [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f], [name_f]Lottie[/name_f] and [name_u]Charlie[/name_u])
[name_f]Hannah[/name_f] - 1
2002 - I have a joint class of kids born in 2002 and 2003 so even though the ranks of the names have changed the number hasn’t.
[name_f]Chloe[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Emily[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Jessica[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]Ellie[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]Sophie[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Megan[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] - 3
[name_f]Lucy[/name_f] - 2
[name_f]Hannah[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Olivia[/name_f] - 1
Although, I have no [name_f]Jessica[/name_f]'s or [name_f]Ellie[/name_f]'s in my class I do know of at least two [name_f]Ellie[/name_f]'s in that year group. I equally have some girls with more “unusual” names: [name_f]Ffion[/name_f] and [name_f]Clarissa[/name_f].
2001 (a whole new class and year group)
[name_f]Chloe[/name_f] - 2
[name_f]Emily[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Megan[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]Jessica[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]Sophie[/name_f] - 2
[name_f]Lauren[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Hannah[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Olivia[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Lucy[/name_f] - 1
This is one of my trickier classes as both the [name_f]Chloe[/name_f]'s and the [name_f]Sophie[/name_f]'s are friends and sit either next to each of or near each other and constantly have to say “which one?” Drive me up the flipping wall as I don’t want to call them [name_f]Chloe[/name_f] 1 and [name_f]Chloe[/name_f] 2 or [name_f]Chloe[/name_f] with her hair up or [name_f]Chloe[/name_f] with the blond hair. The most unusual name in this class is [name_f]Jemima[/name_f] but she goes by [name_f]Jemma[/name_f].
2000 (again new class and new year group)
[name_f]Chloe[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Emily[/name_f] - 2
[name_f]Megan[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] - 2
[name_f]Jessica[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]Lauren[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Sophie[/name_f] - 2
[name_f]Olivia[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Hannah[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]Lucy[/name_f] - 0
Not really much to say, thankfully they all sit apart from each other in this class (and I’m in a different classroom and the layout is a lot better) so I’m never pointing to one [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] and the other thinks it’s her. I can’t really think of a name that seems a little “out of place” in this class, I do however have a boy called [name_u]Storm[/name_u] in that class.
1999:
[name_f]Chloe[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Emily[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Megan[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]Olivia[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]Sophie[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]Lauren[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Jessica[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]Rebecca[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Hannah[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]My[/name_f] only class without multiples of the same name! I do have a girl in this class called [name_f]Jocelyn[/name_f] which always stood out a bit to me.
1998:
[name_f]Chloe[/name_f] - 2
[name_f]Emily[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Megan[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]Jessica[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Sophie[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Hannah[/name_f] - 1
[name_f]Lauren[/name_f] - 0
[name_f]Rebecca[/name_f] - 2
[name_f]Lucy[/name_f] - 0
Nothing to special to say here. However, the is a girl in this class called [name_f]Priya[/name_f] which I think is just downright beautiful!
Obviously, there are a lot more pupils in the school and this numbers might only be a small part of that particular year groups pool of names. [name_m]Even[/name_m] though there were no [name_f]Olivia[/name_f]'s from 1999 in my class that doesn’t mean that there won’t be any [name_f]Olivia[/name_f]'s at all in that year group!
This was hell of a task that I set myself! Hopefully, some people will find it interesting!