Sarah, [name_f]Emily[/name_f], [name_u]Michael[/name_u], [name_m]Daniel[/name_m], and [name_m]Joseph[/name_m].
In grade school it was [name_u]Madison[/name_u], [name_m]Christopher[/name_m], [name_u]Jesse[/name_u] and [name_f]Emily[/name_f].
In high school it was [name_u]Taylor[/name_u] and [name_u]Connor[/name_u].
In university it was [name_f]Megan[/name_f] and [name_u]Sydney[/name_u]
I think I knew a lot of Bens and Maddies in my grade. Irish names like [name_u]Riley[/name_u] and [name_u]Sean[/name_u] were also pretty popular because this is MA. There were lots of Old Testament names like [name_f]Abigail[/name_f], [name_f]Leah[/name_f], [name_m]Samuel[/name_m], and [name_u]Noah[/name_u] due to my town’s rather high Jewish population. Other common names are [name_f]Grace[/name_f], [name_f]Molly[/name_f], [name_f]Caroline[/name_f], [name_f]Sophia[/name_f], [name_u]Dylan[/name_u], [name_m]Ian[/name_m], [name_m]Matthew[/name_m], and [name_u]Griffin[/name_u]. For some reason there was a [name_f]Tess[/name_f] and a [name_f]Tessa[/name_f], as well as two [name_m]Maes[/name_m].
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Alexander - 10+ who all went by [name_u]Alex[/name_u] out of my year of 200.
Izzy (with its variant spellings) - 6 in a year of 100.
Others: [name_m]Tom[/name_m], [name_u]James[/name_u], [name_f]Olivia[/name_f], [name_f]Sophie[/name_f]…
A lot of Maxes and [name_f]Lila[/name_f]/Laila/Laylas
SO MANY NATHANIEL’S. I’ve known at least 9 [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m]’s (not counting the ones outside of school) and had 5 in a class at one point and they all went by [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m] (Last initial) or [name_m]Nate[/name_m]. I also knew a lot of [name_m]Julien[/name_m]’s, [name_m]Josiah[/name_m]’s, [name_u]Aiden[/name_u]’s, [name_u]Hayden[/name_u]’s and [name_u]Connor[/name_u]’s. For girls I knew a lot of [name_f]Abigail[/name_f]/Abby’s (SERIOUSLY SO MANY), [name_f]Isabella[/name_f]/Bella’s, [name_f]Alyssa[/name_f]’s(again SO MANY ALYSSA’S), [name_f]Trinity[/name_f]’s, [name_u]Alexis[/name_u]/Alexa/Lexi’s and [name_f]Hannah[/name_f]’s.
I feel it’s worth mentioning that I’m from the south
Thinking of people who went by last name initials…
Emma, [name_f]Laura[/name_f], [name_f]Lisanne[/name_f] (EDIT:) [name_f]Tessa[/name_f] and for the boys I can only remember [name_m]Tom[/name_m] and [name_m]Tim[/name_m]
I grew up in a smallish Canadian town in the 90s.
There were multiple [name_u]Jesse[/name_u]’s and [name_m]Daniel[/name_m]’s in my class growing up, plus a few more in my school (including my brother, [name_u]Jesse[/name_u] [name_m]Daniel[/name_m]). There were also two [name_u]Keegan[/name_u]’s in our grade for a short period , plus one of the [name_u]Jesse[/name_u]’s little brother was named [name_u]Keegan[/name_u].
Almost no overlap with the girls until highschool. There were A LOT of [name_u]Ashley[/name_u]’s in the year below.
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We had a lot of [name_u]Ashley[/name_u]’s and [name_m]Ben[/name_m]’s
We have quite a few girls named [name_u]Eden[/name_u] at my school.
Michael, [name_f]Jessica[/name_f], [name_f]Sarah[/name_f], [name_f]Michelle[/name_f]
Abigail
Class of 2016. I think [name_f]Emily[/name_f], [name_f]Emma[/name_f], [name_u]Michael[/name_u], and [name_m]Daniel[/name_m] were most common.
Madison hands down. Since ive grown up in the same school district my entire life with a lot of the same people, it’s a whole inside joke. I’ve had 6 or 7 Madisons in one class in elementary school.
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I went to high school in the early 2010s. Located in Southwestern U.S.
The most common girl names that I remember:
[name_f]Hannah[/name_f]
[name_f]Alyssa[/name_f]/ [name_f]Alicia[/name_f]
[name_f]Emma[/name_f]/ [name_f]Emily[/name_f]
[name_f]Rachel[/name_f]
[name_u]Madison[/name_u]/ [name_f]Maddie[/name_f]/ [name_f]Madelyn[/name_f]
[name_f]Olivia[/name_f]
[name_u]Ashley[/name_u]
[name_f]Julia[/name_f]
[name_f]Megan[/name_f]
[name_u]Taylor[/name_u]
[name_f]Lauren[/name_f]
[name_f]Hailey[/name_f]
[name_f]Abigail[/name_f]/ [name_u]Abby[/name_u]
Most common boys names:
[name_u]Tyler[/name_u]
[name_m]Cole[/name_m]
[name_u]Alex[/name_u]
[name_u]Connor[/name_u]
[name_m]Joseph[/name_m]/ [name_m]Joe[/name_m]/ [name_u]Joey[/name_u]/ José
[name_u]Dylan[/name_u]
[name_u]Austin[/name_u]
[name_m]Jacob[/name_m]
[name_m]Carlos[/name_m]
Ashley
[name_f]Emily[/name_f]
[name_f]Sarah[/name_f]
[name_f]Anna[/name_f]
[name_f]Abigail[/name_f]
Alexander
[name_m]Christopher[/name_m]
[name_m]Brian[/name_m]
In my year: [name_u]Michael[/name_u], [name_m]Patrick[/name_m] ([name_u]Paddy[/name_u], [name_u]Pat[/name_u] & [name_m]Patrick[/name_m]), [name_u]George[/name_u], [name_f]Emma[/name_f], [name_f]Emily[/name_f], [name_f]Ella[/name_f], [name_f]Ellen[/name_f], [name_f]Ellie[/name_f] (what a theme), [name_f]Niamh[/name_f]
Just noticed how Catholic this is. To confirm, it was a Catholic school in the UK - lots of Irish names (Deaglan, [name_f]Niamh[/name_f], [name_f]Roisin[/name_f], [name_f]Saoirse[/name_f], [name_m]Conall[/name_m] etc.)
SO many people named [name_f]Ella[/name_f] and [name_m]Luke[/name_m]
Anthony
[name_m]Nicholas[/name_m]
[name_m]Alexander[/name_m]
[name_f]Megan[/name_f]
[name_u]Ashley[/name_u]
There were multiple of all of these:
[name_f]Sophia[/name_f]/Sophie
Saffiya
[name_f]Mia[/name_f]
[name_f]Phoebe[/name_f]
[name_f]Martha[/name_f]
[name_f]Emma[/name_f]
[name_f]Halima[/name_f]
[name_f]Aisha[/name_f]
[name_f]Isabella[/name_f] ([name_u]Izzy[/name_u])
Oh and at uni I’m pretty sure every other girl was an Ellie (Elspeth and Gabrielle were some full names) and every other boy was a Sam. There were also lots of Hannahs and Emmas.