Names From Mythology Or History Early 19th century Americans revered the classics with names from mythology or ancient history widely used.

Popular names late 1800s. Of the rest William George Richard Henry Harry Robert Charles Edmund Edward and Francis are names used by royalty many dating back to Norman or even Saxon times as with Edward and Edmund. 203 rows The following table shows the 200 most popular given names for male and female babies. Classic names like Ada Ella Maggie and Pearl have also seen a recent rise in popularity along with Biblical names like Jacob.

These include Cyrus Erasmus Homer Horace Leonidas and Newton for boys. The file lines consist of a name a comma and then the count of occurrences in the sample. If you had to guess what the most popular names were in the late 1800s youd probably dream up out-of-date names such as Virgil and Elmer or Eula.

The tables below provide links to text files of GINAP version 1 standardized given names. Following from the statistics I compiled for the Top 200 names in 1900 and the Top 200 names in 1890 I have finally finished compiling the rankings for the most popular births in England and Wales in 1880 from the original scanned pages of the England Wales FreeBMD Birth Index 1837-1915. Government draws from Social Security Administration records to provide an official list of baby names and their popularity across the country.

For the Social. For girls the popular classical names include Fidelia Hulda Leta Minerva Narcissa Parthena and Sophrona. Look up a name.

Connecticut State Library 231 Capitol Avenue Hartford CT 06106 860-757-6500 Toll-free. Alonzo is a super unique boy names from the 1800s. Ada and Pearl were both popular names though they declined in the following decades.

Popular Given Names US 1801-1999. Both Ella and Nora were also popular in the 1800s but have become even more popular since the turn of the 21st century. Its an Italian and Spanish variant of the Germanic name Alfonso.