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[jessiac.livejournal.com]

A maths teacher in my school recently searched for the most popular names in my school, an all girls' school. The results were fairly interesting, so I thought I'd post them here. Hope someone finds them interesting! I had always assumed that my name, Jessica, was the top name, and that there were far more girls called Jessica. Anyway, here were the results:

1) Hannah - 17 girls
2) Jessica and Rebecca - 14 girls
3) Charlotte - 12 girls
4) Olivia and Catherine (and variations) - 11 girls.

Names with 10 or more girls included Sarah, Sophie and Rachel. There are 635 girls in 7 years, and they have 323 names and 225 unique names. There are 11 flower related names.

Comments

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I think she's in the UK ('maths teacher', and her profile). Hannah is quite popular here - number 9 in 2002, 10 in 2003, 12 in 2004, 13 in 2005. It was starting to get popular when I leaving school (probably about the same time jessiac was born...).

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

when I was leaving school, that is. :)

[jessiac.livejournal.com]

11-18, London. It's a private school - so middle class girls (said teacher noted that there were no Sharons or Tracys!).

[jessiac.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm from London. Nice to see someone else from the UK here as well.

[pregosaurus.livejournal.com]

I work in a preschool and I Hannah is popular for girls that age. I have 3 Hannahs. Olivia, McKenna/Makayla/Mackenzie, Kylie, Natalie and Allison are really popular too.

[colin-chaotic.livejournal.com]

That's interesting. I've noted at my school, Sara(h)'s the most popular girl's name - there's only 65 kids, grades 7-12, at my school, 25 or so of whom are girls, and we have three Sarahs. Lesbian!Sarah, quiet!Sarah/horses!Sarah/violin!Sarah, and blonde!Sarah.

We also have a number of Brians and Zacks, which is odd.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

How interesting!
They're all very middle class white names, i assume your all girls school is fee paying? (just by the fact that is is all girls)
What does 'unique names mean?' names that arent in the top 100?

[jessiac.livejournal.com]

Ah, it means names of which there are only one of in the school.

[hannallegro.livejournal.com]

Dang it...when did my name get so popular?! There were no Hannah's around back in the 80's.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised Charlotte is so high up there. I thought that was a fairly recent trend.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry I just read the other comments and you are in the UK. I was speaking more for the popularity of Charlotte in the US