What names were popular 100 years ago?

A century ago, the most popular names for boys were classic choices John, William, and James. For girls, it was Mary, Helen, and Dorothy. These names continued to stay at the top of the charts for years to come. The top names — John, William, James, Mary, Helen, and Dorothy — didn't budge the following year.

What names were popular in 1912?

What were popular names in 1905?

What is the oldest name ever?

Kushim is the earliest known example of a named person in writing. The name "Kushim" is found on several Uruk period (c. 3400–3000 BCE) clay tablets used to record transactions of barley. It is uncertain if the name refers to an individual, a generic title of an officeholder, or an institution.

What is a vintage girl name?

Along with Ada and Iris, other retro names for girls in the US Top 200 include Alice, Arabella, Clara, Daisy, Esther, Josephine, Lydia, and Sadie. Unique vintage girl names on the rise include Cordelia, Imogen, Posey, and Susannah.

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What are some very old names?

Along with Emma and Henry, other vintage baby names in the US Top 500 include Abraham, Arthur, Edith, Frederick, Josephine, Olive, Philip, Rosemary, and Walter. Other old-fashioned names that are up-and-coming include Amos, Ida, Lucinda, and Ralph.

What were popular girl names in the 1600s?

What names were popular in the 1700's?

John and Mary were the Number 1 baby names in the 1700s....and in the 1800s and much of the 1900s too. Other top 1700s girl names include Sarah, Jane, Martha, Alice, and Susan. Top 1700s boy names include Thomas, James, Joseph, and Henry.

What was the most popular name in 1911?

The most popular ten names in 1911 were John, Patrick, James, Michael, Thomas, William, Joseph, Edward, Daniel and Peter.

What names are no longer used?

What are old fashioned English names?

Abraham, Albert, Alfie, Alfred, Archie, Archibald, Arthur, Benedict, Cecil, Charles, Charlie, Edward, Edwin, Eric, Ernest, Ezra, Frank, Freddie, Frederick, George, Henry, Jack, Oliver, Reggie, Reginald, Stanley, Ted, Winston.

What names have gone extinct?

What was a common name in the 1500s?

So, in the mid-1500s Richard was in the top 50 baptismal names for both boys and girls. Other names commonly used for both boys and girls included Philip, Nicholas, Alexander, James, Gilbert, Aubrey, Reynold, Basil, Eustace, Giles, Edmund and Simon.

What is the oldest English name?

The oldest recorded English name

The oldest English surname on record was actually from East Anglia. Believe it or not, the oldest recorded English name is Hatt. An Anglo-Saxon family with the surname Hatt are mentioned in a Norman transcript, and is identified as a pretty regular name in the county.

What are old granny names?

What is the oldest lady name?

The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days.

What is the prettiest girl name?