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Offline JDGen

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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #27 on: Thursday 24 August 06 11:58 BST (UK) »
Hmm, what an interesting question!  It's helped me to find out that my Family History programme can't produce this statistic, so I've had a bit of a play - exporting, importing etc.  Can produce the top ten males, but females are a bit trickier as my programme includes them with same id, but a number of times for each married name!!  Will continue to try, but these are the top ten male names:

John   302
William   226
Thomas   155
James   145
George   96
Robert   74
Joseph   71
Samuel   63
Charles   51

Uncommon ones, Rio (1850's)? - where did that come from!!  ???

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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #28 on: Friday 25 August 06 01:06 BST (UK) »
John (spelled various ways)
James
Harry
Charles

Martha
Harriet (spelled various ways)

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Scotland - Adam, Galt/Gault, Mellis, Jardine, Turnbull, Robertson, Auchincloss, Murray, Allison/Allason, Mitchell, Cross, Rae, Brown, McHutcheon, Montgomerie, McKenzie, Mackay, McPherson, McInish

England - Saunders/Sanders, Jory/Jorie/Jura, McKey, Williams/ Wyllams,  Lance, Ellis, Trounson, Dingle, Charlton, Hambridge, Sweetman/Sweatman, Ricks/Rix/Reeks, Cole, Shearwood/Sherwood, Toy, Brooks, Moore, Donn, Nicolas, Habberfield,

Denmark - Alling/Aalling, Lastein, Lund, Rasmussen

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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #29 on: Friday 25 August 06 12:31 BST (UK) »
William ,Thomas,John,George and James are the most popular male names in my main family.
The most unusual name is Hamlin.
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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #30 on: Friday 25 August 06 16:46 BST (UK) »
Perhaps we should set up a pole to find out if William is the most popular, because it seems to be coming up quite a lot so far!!

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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #31 on: Friday 25 August 06 23:58 BST (UK) »
John Jones, John Jones, John Jones, David Jones, David Jones, John Jones, John Jones,
John Jones, John Jones etc, etc

For variety............Mary Jones, Mary Jones, Mary Jones, Mary Jones, Jane Jones, Jane Jones, Mary Jones, Mary Jones, etc, etc

Cheers Dave (Jones)
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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #32 on: Tuesday 29 August 06 07:22 BST (UK) »

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John Jones, John Jones, John Jones, David Jones, David Jones, John Jones, John Jones,
John Jones, John Jones etc, etc

For variety............Mary Jones, Mary Jones, Mary Jones, Mary Jones, Jane Jones, Jane Jones, Mary Jones, Mary Jones, etc, etc

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I've got plenty of them in my Tree too Dave!!!!  and I was born a Jones ::)

Jan
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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #33 on: Thursday 07 September 06 13:39 BST (UK) »
For some reason my software does not give a first name list so I cannot give exact numbers on my names but these are the most popular

WILLIAM
JAMES
HUGH
ROBERT
THOMAS
OWEN
DAVID

ELIZABETH
ELEANOR / ELLINOR / ELLEN
MARGARET
JANE
MARY
AGNES

This covers both hubby's side (from Scotland and Northumberland) and mine (Wales) Very popular names throughout the 1800's so it seems regardless of where you are from

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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #34 on: Friday 22 September 06 10:42 BST (UK) »
most common first names in my tree are,

John and George. Ann, evelyn and Blanche.

Most common surnames are,

Collins, McLennan and Briscoe.

My most unusual name is, Solomon for a first name, I don't know where that came from!!

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MCLENNAN - Inverness Scotland and Liverpool
WHITTAKER - Offaly Ireland
MILLER. HURST, BALL. DUTTON. BIBBY, MORGAN, GASKELL - Liverpool
ELLIS - Plymouth, Devon
COLLINS - Bishops Castle, Shropshire.
MASON. MILLER - Runcorn/Chester
ROWLAND - Widnes, Lancs.
CHARLTON - Bury, Lancs
GREGGS - Cumbria
BRISCOE - SHERLOCK - Cheshire
VOCE - Warrington, Lancs

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Re: Whats your most common name
« Reply #35 on: Friday 22 September 06 14:56 BST (UK) »

My top names are

boys - John, William, James, George and Henry
girls -  Elizabeth (including Bessie & Betty), Mary, Sarah and Jane

Also a few named Catherine, Frances, Francis, Thomas, Richard, Emma, Ellen, and Robert

BURROW, BICKHAM, EVANS, SULLEY, STONE - Devon
STEPHENS, MALLET, ADAMS - Cornwall
HANCOCK , BUSSON - Somerset
MCCALLUM, MCDIARMID, MCNEILL - Argyle, Scotland
WALLS, SUTHERLAND, SIMPSON - Orkney, Scotland
FAIRBAIRN - Fife, Scotland
THOMPSON - Aberdeen, Scotland
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