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Aug 22, 2022 · The most popular 10 names in that year were John, Patrick, James, Michael, Thomas, William, Joseph, Edward, Daniel and Peter. Scroll down to see the full list of names... Meanwhile close to a quarter of all Irish women in 1911 were called either Mary or Bridget. The most popular 10 girls names in 1911 were Mary, Bridget, Margaret, Ellen ...
Jul 2, 2012 · What were the most popular given names during the Civil War period? This is the second part of a three part study of that question. Part 1 looked at the most popular men’s names of U.S. men born during the period 1811-1850, the broad period that made up the vast majority of Civil War Soldiers. Today we will look at the most common girl’s ...
Select Decade. Popular names by decade are determined the same way we determine the popularity of a name during a single year. We count the number of occurrences of each name during the decade, and then rank them in order of decreasing frequency. Rank 1 is assigned to the name with the highest number of occurrences, rank 2 to the name with the ...
The U.S. Social Security Administration has data on baby names for each year since 1880, so we did some number crunching to find out which names were ruling the cradle in the late nineteenth century. First, let's look at the top 10 girl names of the latter part of the Victorian era. Top 10 Girl's Names of the late 1800s (1880-1899)
Feb 28, 2020 · It’s one of my favorite boy names from the 1800s. Lonnie. Lonnie can be a shortened version of the German name, Alonzo, meaning ‘ready for battle’, or can be a name in its own right. Louis/Lewis. Lewis is the English spelling, Louis is the French. Both mean ‘famous warrior’. Both were popular boy names in the 1800’s. Luther
Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820) One of the first works of fiction by an American author to become popular outside the United States, Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was first published as part of The Sketchbook in 1820. Irving’s vivid imagery involving the wild supernatural pursuit by the Headless ...
Jan 29, 2024 · Along with Abraham and Prince, other early African American names currently in the US Top 1000 include Alonzo, Athena, Daphne, Elijah, Isaiah, Israel, King, Phoebe, and Titus. Place names that were disproportionately popular among Black Americans in history include Boston, Jamaica, York, and Africa. Also included here are common names among ...
