I think at one time, we had 4 Jasons.

And no other duplicate names.

Not the same thing but in the pledge class a few years after me we had girls with the last name of

Champagne, Beers, and Horney.

We weren't quite sure if that was foreshadowing of how crazy they would be!!! But they all were awesome.

I can't think of any other names that really stuck out. Maybe Allison, but that's the only one that comes to mind...

10% of my chapter is named Matt. (5 of them)

I think that is a lot of Matt's.

Also

2 doug's
2 Rick's
3 mike's
3 Adam's
2 Erik's
2 Brian's
2 Dave's

I never noticed we had soo many duplicate names before, no wonder we give out soo many nicknames.

We had many girls named Amy, Kim, Lisa and later on, Jen.

5 Katies with all different chapter nicknames...but the rest of them graduated and i hope that we don't take any new Katies as new members!!! i want my individuality back :(

We also have 6 or 7 Megs and Meghans.

We had...

3 Nicole's (one went by Nikki, thankfully)
2 Ashley's
2 Sarah's
2 Amanda's
2 Shannons

For a chapter of only 15 - 30 girls, that's a lot :)

There used to be a lot of Laura's and Erin's, and so we just called them all by their first name and last initial when referring to them, but then we ended up with two Brittany M.'s, which wasn't too convenient, because we'd end up saying their entire names. One Brittany actually depledged (which was a shame, she was a sweetheart, but she was very involved in Delta Sigma Pi as well) but both of the Brittany's almost ended up with the same Big sister which would have been interesting.

We have lots of Megans, Lindsays, Katies, etc. The funniest thing was we had three Megans with last names Kenny, Kelly, and Cowley. That got confusing because they all sound so much alike :)

Let's see, <pulls out composite>

Last year we had

9 Matt's (all go by last names)
2 Stu's
4 Ryan's
5 Adam's
2 Jason's
2 Jeff's/ 1 Geoff
2 Mark's
6 Dan's
3 Dave's
2 Neil's
5 Jon/John/Jonathan's
3 Nate's
3 Andy's (all in one pledge class)
2 Jared's
2 Justin's


So a lot more than half (57/82) guys have names that are repeated. I never even realized this at all. I guess you just get used to calling most people by their last names and you ignore the repeated names...

We used to play a game every year at chapter retreat where everyone lines up alphabetically by first name. You can't say your name as you're assembling, but you can give other clues as you shuffle in order (this activity includes all new members and all initiated members).

Everyone participates in this and soon, assemble a long line from A-Z. Then, starting with the first girl, everyone says her own name. It's really funny to hit the "Sara" and "Jennifer" groups--- usually a lot! But ironically one year, we had "Abbey," "Abby" and "Abbi." All within consecutive new member classes, too! :)

Last year we had:

5 Jennifer's (we called them a combination of Jennifer's, Jenny's, and Jen's)
4 Kristen's (two were Kristin and two were Kristen)
4 Ashley's (all spelled the same)
3 Amy's (one was Aimee)
3 Lauren's
2 Laura's
2 Emily's
2 Leah's
2 Claire's
2 Anna's
2 Meredith's
2 Beth's
2 Lindsay's
2 Jessica's
2 Rebecca's
2 Kim's

Our most unusual names: Fiona, Arielle, Benni, and Calley.

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During one afternoon of freshman orientation, we used to do a team-building type of thing for the incoming freshman class. We were broken off into groups of 20 or so and did things like trust falls.

One of the things we had to do was line up in order of birthday. We were not allowed to talk.

I simply pulled out my driver's license... :p

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when i was in school we had:

2 Christina's (one was Stina)
2 Kim's (one went by Kimberlee)
2 Laura's (one was Laura Beth though, and went by LBD- her initials)

Unusual: Rochelle, Victoria

We basically had almost no repeats of names. Crazy, huh?

Last year we had:

2 Megans
1 Britney
1 Brittany
1 Brittny
2 Jessicas
1 Kari
1Carey
1 Kari


It was all very confusing!!! :)

Last Semester we had
5 Stephanies
2 Danielles
2 Dianas
2 Megans
2 Shannons and one Shanna
and
2 Debbys