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Common boy names from the 1800s. Names separated by sex are listed in descending order of popularity. Ada and Pearl were both popular names though they declined in the following decades. Name Frequency Approximate Number Rank.

Total registered births - 1226. The file lines consist of a name a comma and then the count of occurrences in the sample. A further one-in-10 were called Patrick - meaning close to a quarter of the male population had the name of John or Patrick in Ireland in 1911.

For girls you see names. 203 rows Name Number Name Number. Select Decade2010s 2000s 1990s 1980s 1970s 1960s 1950s 1940s 1930s 1920s 1910s 1900s 1890s 1880s.

They are as follows. If you had to guess what the most popular names were in the late 1800s youd probably dream up out-of-date names such as Virgil and Elmer or Eula and Blanche. This month Im looking at the top fifty male names in 1800.

We count the number of occurrences of each name during the decade and then rank them in order of decreasing frequency. William John Thomas James George Joseph Richard Henry Robert Charles. Alfred is an English baby name stemming from the old English Aelfraed.

If you had to guess what the most popular names were in the late 1800s youd probably dream up out-of-date names such as Virgil and Elmer or Eula and Blanche. Parents considering a boy name like Noah Elijah Mason or Logan should know that their baby boy will be in good company as those names are some of the top 10 most popular boy names. Popular names by decade are determined the same way we determine the popularity of a name during a single year.