What is your Most Common Names in your Family Tree?

[DianaCanada]

Between my wife and I, we have four instances of Smith/Smyth as direct ancestors. Oh, the fun....

I am lucky as I have no Smiths or Jones until back into the 1700's, the Smith was an admitted father of an illegitimate ancestor so she took her mother's name 
Many of my direct ancestors had less common surnames, my most common are Dixon and Ford.  My grandmother was a Dixon and there are lots of them around Burnley.  My mother's Sussex lines are more localized, Oliver is the most common, and there is a Weston and a Kemp.  Others that are more unsual - Barden, Harmer, Hoad, Messetter, Tedham, Beeney, Pankhurst, Boorman, Potten.  My grandfather was a Booth and there are a number of them in E. Sussex, but it is much more common in northern England, so wondering if one wandered down at some point.

[Albufera32]

On the male side, John, James, Thomas, William and Robert dominate with George and Alexander also quite common. Amongst my Highland ancestors and their descendants Niel, Lachlan and Duncan are also fairly common. (Note the spelling of Niel).

On the female side Mary, Margaret, Agnes, Elizabeth, Jane and Janet are the most common, with a fair smattering of Christina/Christian and quite a few Catherines and Helens as well.

[coombs]

I have an ancestor James Smith, tin plate worker, alive in Oxford in 1841, not born in county, he died in 1849. I am hoping he was born in a surrounding county though such as Berks or Bucks, but he may have come from further afield. Norfolk or Staffordshire for all I know.

James and Smith, both very common first and surnames.

[Gadget]

I've just had a quick count of the most common names in my Ancestry tree:

John - 228
William - 244
Thomas - 167
James - 119
Robert - 161

Mary - 169
Elizabeth - 119
Ann/e - 162
Jane/Jean - 121

My favourites, though not very common, are from my female Welsh kin - Athaliah, Lowri and Sinah

[coombs]

I have a Susan Riches born c1700 who wed in 1725 in Norwich, and there was several Susan Riches born c1690-1708 in Norfolk. Riches is a common surname in Norfolk, while Susannah was not as common as Elizabeth, Mary or Ann it was relatively common as a forename.

[pinefamily]

Apart from the most common few, names ebbed and flowed in popularity over the centuries.

[Gadget]

Apart from the most common few, names ebbed and flowed in popularity over the centuries.

Many families used various naming conventions. In my own ancestors, there are definite Scottish and Welsh naming patterns through the centuries.

[Rena]

I have a Susan Riches born c1700 who wed in 1725 in Norwich, and there was several Susan Riches born c1690-1708 in Norfolk. Riches is a common surname in Norfolk, while Susannah was not as common as Elizabeth, Mary or Ann it was relatively common as a forename.

My OHs grandmother Phoebe was named after a Phebe Riches, Norfolk.

[coombs]

Also I once helped a workmate of mine do his tree and we both have 2 respective ancestors from Suffolk called Peter Archer, mine born 1717 in Campsea Ashe and his Peter born c1720 (probably in the Eye/Palgrave area). His Peter wed in 1742 in Palgrave Suffolk, near Diss (which is just over the Suffolk border in Norfolk) and mine in 1740 in Campsea Ashe, Suffolk, near Woodbridge.