My son's school has done one of those 'snapshot' studies that can be of vague cultural interest: a breakdown of first names amongst the 1300 or so pupils (remembering that it's an all boys (state) grammar school in the South East). For the sake of brevity, I've drawn a line at 5 incidences...
66 x James
55 x Thomas
44 x Alexander
41 x Matthew
36 x Daniel
33 x Benjamin
33 x William
28 x Oliver
25 x Joshua
24 x Jack
23 x Samuel
22 x Christopher
22 x Joseph
19 x Edward
19 x Jonathan
17 x George
16 x Michael
15 x Nicholas
13 x Henry
13 x Robert
13 x Timothy
12 x Harry
11 x Adam
11 x Dominic
11 x Luke
10 x Andrew
10 x David
10 x Elliot
9 x Charles
9 x Mohammed
9 x Richard
8 x Cameron
8 x Jamie
8 x Lewis
8 x Sebastian
8 x Zachary
7 x Callum
7 x Jacob
7 x John
7 x Jordan
7 x Marcus
7 x Max
7 x Peter
6 x Ali
6 x Connor
6 x Simon
5 x Alastair
5 x Frederick
5 x Harrison
5 x Jake
5 x Mark
5 x Owen
5 x Ryan
5 x Tom
