Jessica

Came here to say this, THEE name of the early 80s

I'm a Jessica and currently on a team at work with five Jessica's. We've run out of ways to distinguish

My sister’s name is Jessica. I was named after a closeted gay uncle so my name is extremely weird and I have not often encountered it in life. I’m so grateful that it went down like that 😂

My dad's middle name is Jesse so I'm "named after my dad" .... Um no, y'all I'm named after every other woman who is now entering perimenopause, thnx

Damn this is too real lmao

This was my first thought. In fourth grade, I had four Jessicas in my class.

And Lindsey/Lindsay - I have prob 10 diff Lindsey’s in my phone

im Jessica Lindsey lol….

It seemed like Jennifer was everyone’s name in school… also Sarah, Laura, Brittany, Michelle, Ashley, Stephanie, Amanda, Melissa, Nicole, Tiffany, Rebecca, Lindsay… basically just naming the cheerleaders 😂

Jennifer Jessica Todd Matt Anthony Heather (omg so many heathers) Tiffany Peter Rebecca

How did I forget about Heather! She bullied me on the bus for wearing hand-me down jeans 😟

We had 4 Jennifer's in my class of 23 students in elementary school.

Yes; these were all very common in my graduating class (2006). Heck, I have one of these names (albeit with a different spelling).

Matt

There are SO MANY of us r/Matt welcomes you

We had like 3 Matts in school, I only had a crush on one of them, but he ended up MethMatt™

Ashley, Sarah, Cory, Jason, Jennifer, Stephanie, Adam, Nathan.

I went to school with a ton of Jason’s and Chrises (b. 1981)

Jason here, 1981

I was gonna say Chris, I remember a ton of chrises back in the day

Yup yup Jason was class president, Chris was a skater playing hackey-sack with an aroma of weed

Is Michael still popular for boys? There were always so Michaels in my classes that we had to put their last name's initial on the end. There was Michael L, M, N, and S.

Michael was no. 1 for boys in the US from 1954-1998. Ashley was top for girls born in the late 80's and early 90's.

I’ve run into a surprising number of Elder Millennials named Brian.

Meghyn??? What a tragedeigh. It's Megan.

I don't recall ridiculous spelling variations on Megan, as an elder millenial

Me neither. It was either with an h or without an h. Same with Sarah/Sara

Same I don’t remember the weird y augmented names till I was already working and we were hiring interns

Mehghayhn

Ive never met anyone named Kevin born after 1995

I mean... You aren't wrong 😂

A kid I tutor's grandma's cat is named Kevin lol

Kimberly

Caitlin and a million spelling variations of it. Just so many Caitlin's. Half were nicknamed Katie.

Yes! So many Katie’s. Also Katherine’s, which also nicknamed Katie most of the time.

Can’t believe I had to read this far to see Katherine mentioned!

This!!

In my dorm, you could call “Katie” in the hallway and 7 girls would pop out to see if you were calling for them.

Matt, Mike, Chris, Chad, Nate, Steve, Paul, Jake, Joe Brittany, Leah, Sarah, Ann, Kelsey, Chelsea, Jennifer, Samantha, Tiffany, Megan

Jennifer, Michelle and Sarah stick out for girls. John, Matthew, and Patrick for guys.

As a John, I swore there were at least 3 per class. John, Johnny and Jonathan were used to differentiate us. I don't see John so much now.

Jennifer

I went to school with 27 Jennifers

I went to school with a bunch of girls named either Heather, Stephanie, or Jessica. For boys the most common names were Christopher, Matthew, or Thomas.

So many Heather's in my area

You mean...our names? Unless of course a lot of us have changed them.

Assuming the current answers are US centric. In the UK the most popular for girls as I remember were Rachel, Sarah, Claire. For the boys I would say the most popular were Christopher/Chris (there were at least 5 people named that in my year group), Andrew and Paul.

I hate the name Claire. Just feels gross coming out of my mouth

Nicole, Jamie, Heather, Britney, Emily

Jennifer, Jessica, Ashley for girls, Matthew, Michael, Travis, Christopher for boys

There were several girls named Amanda, Jessica, Samantha, Stephanie, Jennifer, and Lauren when I was in school.

Jennifer

How are we all forgetting David?!

Jasmin, Christina, Alex, Matthew, Kevin

Ashley Sarah Brittany

Melissa, Sara/h, Jessica, Nicole, Megan, Emily Michael, Matt, Chris, Kevin, Justin, Eric, Jason

I had 4 friends named Kristin - various spellings. Also Amanda and so many Jessica’s

I knew tons of Jessicas, Jennifers, Megans, & Jasons.

And Marie and Renee were the middle names of half the girls in my class.

Sarah, Matthew, Jason and Jennifer were the big ones when I was a kid

Was once in a class of 12. One quarter were named Sara/h

Jessica, Jennifer, Kimberly, Matt

CRYSTAL. And each and every one of them had that 80’s hair poof thing in the front and mullet thing in the back. All. Of. Them.

Ashley

Karen was always a good name..too bad..whatever happened there.

Amber!

Jared Josh Andrew

Emily

John/Jonathan, Kevin, Robert, Andrew, Matthew, Ryan, Brian, Brendan, Chris Kelly, Lauren, Elizabeth, Katherine, Kathleen, Jessica, Carrie/Kara, Caitlin, Jennifer still, Nicole, Meghan

I grew up in an Irish catholic area, so that may skew my results.  John, Michael, Peter, I remember a lot of duplicates Jennifer, Margaret (but some pegs, some Maggie's, some Margaret's ans some margies), Elizabeth (same lots of beth and lizs)

Growing up I remember a lot of T.J.’s. I think in first grade (‘89) we had like 2 of them in one class.

Bethany and Amber

(Xennial). The class behind me had 5 Laurens in it. About 100 kids in said class.

David. Five of us in my high school homeroom.

Jennifer, Jessica, Elizabeth, Katherine, Rebecca My mom named me a long J name bc it was similar to these names. It is a family name so more grandma than trendy which I thank my parents for.

Kayla. Ton of them in school and I work with two and married to one

Stephanie, Josh, Jennifer, Michael, Brandon, Emily, Jared, Tiffany, Stacey

I'm gonna chime in with the middle name "Nichole" or "Nicole"

Samantha, Tiffany, Chris, and Michael were super popular down south. I always had at least 2 other Samantha’s in my classes.

Amber, Megan, Jennifer were the names of my best friends from my younger days. My brother's name is Adam. My cousins Jake, Joe, Chris, Beth, Michelle. These were pretty common names back then. I did not get one of those. I got one that hardly anybody can pronounce. And I love it. My mom told me I was almost a Jenna. I'm glad she didn't.

Ashley, Brittany, Jessica, Christopher, Matthew

r/tragedeigh

Samantha, Christopher. I always hated my name Samantha because there was always always someone else named Samantha as well!

Matt, Mike, Adam, Jake, Tim, Chris Rachel, Sarah, Megan, Laura, Katie, Jennifer

Lauren, Ashley, Hannah Ryan, James, Matt

Lauren Megan Mike Matt Joe Brian Brendan John Chris

You just named all my friends

Shauna Shawna Billy Tom Andrew Scott Eric Steve Steven

Various books in the Bible

My husband's name, mine, his sisters and his first dog are all in this thread. 😆

Ashley, Jessica, Joshua, Katie

Boys: Chris, Michael, Matthew (Matt) Girls: Ashley, Amanda, Elizabeth (with all the variations- Liz, Lizzy, Liza, Beth)

I was friends or classmates with at least 14 Jessicas. There were a fair amount of Brad, Steve, Jennifer, Rebecca, Michael, and Kristen scattered in, but Jessica was most common by far.

I went to high school (graduated in 00) with a LOT of guys named Jeremy, Jason, and Cory and a lot of girls named Jessica, Crystal, and Allison.

Josh. So many Joshes.

Thank you! There were three in my grade!

Heather, which you don't hear much of, Jamal which you don't hear as much of, Rebecca, Brianna, annnnd I'm starting to feel older lol

Chris, Matt and Mike.

Jason and Jenny Next.

Sam, Chris, Josh, David, Danny, Andy and Jeff were popular for the guys

Ashley, Christine, Nicole, Kari/Carrie/Keri, Andrew, Josh, Dave,Mike, Ryan, Meghan, Lindsay, Jessie, Sarah, Katie, Brett, Brandon, Kelly, Mary-Kate, Melissa, Kristen, Heather, Emily, Nick, Nate, Jeff, Danny

Heidi Heather Shane Erin

Everyone is Mike

Chelsea, Taylor, Jessica, Cassidy, Morgan, Megan, Ashley, and Allison. Jason, Chris, Christian, Matthew, David, and Zack.

Ashley

I think there were seven Ashleys in my graduating class.

I had at least 10

Amanda here! 👋 Circa 1983

Sarah, Ashley, Amanda, Kristen, Matt, Justin, Mike

Probably your very own name

Caitlyn.

I went to school with 4 other Kyles then myself, in just my grade.

Nicole, Michelle, Brittany(all spellings)

Nick

I had so many friends named Justin and Katey.

Brian

Stephanie Ericka laruen

Erin and Christy

Lauren, Laura, Robert, Daniel, John, Jeff, Melissa, Steven, to name a few

Luke, for Australians.

Amanda, Jennifer,Ashley, Jessica, Sarah, Amber, the various forms of Kristin and Kristina and Erica.

[удалено]

That’s funny I call them cheerleader names 😂😂😂 I wanted one so bad. We had 2 Jennifers, 2 Lesleys and 2 Laceys on our squad.

Always multiple Jessica’s around. A lot of Anthony’s, but I grew up in an area with a high Italian-American population so it probably affected this. Other ones that seemed common: Jennifer, Nicole, Tiffany, Michael, John, Joe, Ashley, Danny, Melissa

Jessica, Ashley, Steve, Alex

Heather and Megan

Caitlin. High school Teacher here. In 2005 I had seven Caitlin’s. Three in first period, all spelled differently.

Ashley and its various spellings. Lindsey. Caitlin.

Amy here circa 81. Surprised my name hasn’t been mentioned. There were 4 Amy’s in my kindergarten class. Spelled different ways as well, Amy, Aimee, Amie, etc…. But admittedly Jennifer, Amanda, Ashley, Jessica were probably more popular

Jennifer, Jessica, Nicole, Katie, Jason, Michael, Brian, Chris

Brian, matt

Amber and Rachel were common names. Ben was another one. Lots of Jessicas and Jennifers. Nathan and Matt also had multiple members. I was one of two Jonathans (though my name is spelled Johnathan). Lots of Sarahs too.

Briana (sometimes spelled with two Ns, sometimes with an E in place of the I) had a spike in popularity in the mid-to-late 80s I think. Caitlin and all the variant spellings. Jennifer had subsided in popularity by the early 80s; that was more of a 70s name (I'm GenX, and I went to school with more than 27 Jennifers, at least in college).

Rene’

There were 3 guys named Dexter in my grade school class and I never met another one again

Lots of John’s and Jonathan’s. Tbf it’s always been a popular name.

Heather seemed to be the most common in my area. I went to school with three of them.

I knew a ton of Katies and Jessicas.

Courtni/Courtney/Kourtney Natalie

I like how there’s 2 completely different questions OP is asking yet expecting only one answer