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Name Number Name Number; 1: John: 89,950: Mary: 91,668: 2: William: 84,881: Anna: 38,159: 3: James: 54,056: Emma: 25,404: 4: George: 47,651: Elizabeth: 25,006: 5: Charles: 46,656: Margaret: 21,799: 6: Frank: 30,967: Minnie: 21,724: 7: Joseph: 26,292: Ida: 18,283: 8: Henry: 24,139: Bertha: 18,263: 9: Robert: 24,074: Clara: 17,717: 10: Thomas ...
Jun 21, 2017 · To identify the most popular names from the late 1800s, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the 200 most popular girl and boy names from The Social Security Administration (SSA), which tracks...
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Dec 1, 2022 · But not to be outshone, the most popular names were often John, Mary, and Joseph, bringing in the biblical representation. But then, for those who loved taking turns about the garden, Violet, Rose, and Fern were top contenders for decades, too. Katherine. Patrick. Richard.
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Recent lists have some names that carry a grand sense of importance (Messiah, King, Marquis), but the 1880s and 90s also had its grand titles in the 200 to 400 range of ranked popularity. For the boys, there was General, Commodore, Prince, and Major. For the girls there was Queen, which hovered around the 500 mark until the 1950s.
This year has a number of cities as names on the list: Brooklyn, London, and Memphis among them. Cities as names is not a new thing, however. Boston was a boy's name in the 1880s. Dallas and Denver have been around since the 1880s, as has Cleveland (though it peaked in popularity during the presidency of Grover Cleveland, so perhaps should count as...
Some of our state names come from women's names, so it is expected that states like Virginia, Carolina, and Georgia should be represented on name lists. But other state names have made the list too. Missouri made the girl's name list from 1880 until about 1900 and Indiana, Tennessee, and Texas also showed up a few times as girls' names in the 1800s...
People have been coming up with their own spellings for common names for a long time. Some alternate versions of names that are more than half a century old are Hellen, Margarett, Julious, Deloris, Kathrine, Elizebeth, Benjiman, Peggie, Sharlene, Syble, Dorris, Suzan and Lawerence.
Recent years have introduced names like Madisyn and Madyson, where a 'y' replaces another letter, but names like Edyth, Kathryne, Alyce, Helyn, and Franklyn have all made the lists of yore. In the 1920s, it was fashionable to get the look of an inside-name 'y' by adding an 'e' to names already ending with 'y' as in Rubye, Bettye, Bobbye, and Billye...
Diamond didn’t make the list until 1986 and seems to be declining in popularity from its peak in 1999, but valuable gems have long been a part of our baby-naming repertoire. In the early 20th century, Ruby, Pearl, Opal, Beryl and Jewel were popular, along with other signals of preciousness like Goldie and Coral.
The last names of historical figures have long been used as first names. Lincoln has been on the list since the beginning of record keeping, but in recent years it has been making a comeback, reaching 132 in 2012. Columbus made the list until the 1950s, and Napoleon was popular until the 1970s. Cicero had a short-lived run, barely making it into th...
Charlie has become a popular girl's name, making the list at 305 this year, but it had an earlier run as a girl's name in the last century. From the 1880s until about the 1950s, there were a bunch of traditional boys names that became popular for girls. Tommie, Billie, Bobbie, Frankie as well as William and George all made the list for many years i...
These days there's a trend for the '-den' ending, as in Jayden, Camden, Caden, Aiden, and Braden, but there was a time when it was all about the '-ford': Clifford, Wilford, Buford, Rutherford, Stanford, Crawford, and just plain Ford had a good run in the early 20th century.
It may seem like little Harrison and Emerson are on to something new with their last names as first names, but last names have always been encroaching on first name territory. In addition to the history names and the –ford names above, this is the way we've gotten Scott, Vaughn, Spencer, Coleman, Hilton, Wilson, Preston, Conrad, and Haskell, among ...
Jun 21, 2017 · William has never fallen outside of the top 20 boys’ names. 1. John. > Babies named 1880-1899: 170,615. Finally, the most popular name during the late 1800s, John hit its peak in 1880 with 9,655 ...
Mar 7, 2016 · Early 19th century Americans revered the classics, with names from mythology or ancient history widely used. These include Cyrus, Erasmus, Homer, Horace, Leonidas and Newton for boys. For girls, the popular classical names include Fidelia, Hulda, Leta, Minerva, Narcissa, Parthena and Sophrona.
Feb 28, 2024 · The top three baby names from 1800-1850 were consistent classics: Mary, Elizabeth and Sarah for girls, and John, William and James for boys. Beyond these, many of the most popular names of the era are stylish again today, some of them after a long decline (or two) and rebirth. These include: Abigail. Caroline. Charlotte. Emily. Hannah. Jane. Julia.
