Regency namesA Lesson by QueenBee2 A List of Regency names for boys and girls- First names only or middle names. Regency era names. As I have said, I hate coming across anachronistic names. I have been asked several times by other people for a list of the most popular names so as well as my own researches here's a list of the top 50 given names compiled from the research of Leslie Alan Dunkling who has written a number of books on names, including the excellently informative work 'The Guinness Book of Names' which I thoroughly recommend for excellent research and a good laugh at times as well. Below is a table with the top 50 names given at birth in 1800 Eight out of ten babies before the twentieth century tended to be named from among the top ten names; this is apparent in the letters of Jane Austen where the same names tend to occur. Girls are more likely to be given names outside this list than boys. Note that many of the girls’ names are actually derivative; only Harry on the male list, a diminutive of Henry is so. Female names had already diverged enough that eg Ann and Hannah, Harriet and Henrietta were already separate name Diminutives used for everyday which may have also been given at birth: Elizabeth: Eliza, Lizzy, Liza, Beth, Betty, Betsy Mary: Molly, Polly, Minney Margaret Maggie, Meg, Peggy Catherine/Katharine: Kitty, Kate Frances: Fanny Sarah: Sally Ann: Nancy, Annie, Nan, Nanny Male Female 1 William 26 Mark 1 Mary 26 Fanny 2 John 27 Michael 2 Ann[e] 27 Eliza 3 Thomas 28 Ralph 3 Elizabeth Grace 4 James 29 Jacob 4 Sarah Sally 5 George 30 Andrew 5 Jane 30 Rachel 6 Joseph 31 Moses 6 Hannah 31 Lydia 7 Richard 32 Nicholas 7 Susan 32 Caroline 8 Henry 33 Anthony 8 Martha 33Dorothy 9 Robert 34 Luke 9 Margaret 34 Peggy 10 Charles 35 Simon 10 Charlotte 35 Ruth 11 Samuel 36 Josiah 11 Harriet 36 Kitty 12 Edward 37 Timothy 12 Betty 37 Jenny 13 Benjamin 38 Martin 13 Maria 38 Phoebe 14 Isaac 39 Nathaniel 14 Catherine 39 Agnes 15 Peter 40 Roger 15 Frances Emma 16 Daniel 41 Walter 16 Mary Ann 41 Amy 17 David 42 Aaron 17 Nancy Jemima 18 Francis 43 Jeremy 18 Rebecca 43 Dinah 19 Stephen 44 Joshua 19 Alice 44 Barbara 20 Jonathon 45 Alexander 20 Ellen 45 Joan 21 Christopher 46 Adam 21 Sophia 46 Joanna 22 Matthew 47 Hugh 22 Lucy 47 Deborah 23 Edmund 48 Laurence 23 Isabel Judith 24 Philip 49 Owen 24 Eleanor 49 Bridget 25 Abraham 50 Harry 25 Esther Marjorie.   Comments
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