The GROS published a booklet in 1991 listing the most popular given names. Of the top ten girls' names in 1858, only Elizabeth, Catherine and Helen were still in the top 100 in 1990. Sarah was 15th in 1858 and 3rd in 1990. The 'missing' ones are probably Margaret, Mary, Isabella, Jane/Jean, Janet, Agnes and Ann. Out of curiosity, I searched the SP index for various given names from 1800 to 1854, and found the top ten were Margaret and variants 150,502 Mary 129,381 Jean/Jane and variants 114,529 Jan(n)et 103,122 Ann and variants 100,538 Elizabeth and variants 100,883 Isabella and variants 71,930 Agnes 57,232 Catherine/Katherine and variants 52,910 Helen and variants 52,609 Christina and variants 33,345 Others that may be of interest Sara(h) 11,324 Jessie 9,358 Susan and variants 7,441 If I've missed one, please point her out to me! Boys' names are much less affected by the vagaries of fashion. The top ten in 1858 were all still in the top 100 in 1990 1 John (8th in 1990) [228,060 in 1800-1854] 2 James (7th) [188,557] 3 William (22nd) [169,596] 4 Alexander (34th) [104,172] 5 Robert (18th) [91,471] 6 George (68th) [65,334] 7 David (1st) [58,224] 8 Thomas (24th) [58,763] 9 Andrew (5th) [34,794] 10 Charles (88th) [19,943] Anne

I commend you on your diligence! Ruth -----Original Message----- From: Anne Burgess via Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 1:27 AM To: lanark@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [Lanark] Ranking of first names in Scotland The GROS published a booklet in 1991 listing the most popular given names. Of the top ten girls' names in 1858, only Elizabeth, Catherine and Helen were still in the top 100 in 1990. Sarah was 15th in 1858 and 3rd in 1990. The 'missing' ones are probably Margaret, Mary, Isabella, Jane/Jean, Janet, Agnes and Ann. Out of curiosity, I searched the SP index for various given names from 1800 to 1854, and found the top ten were Margaret and variants 150,502 Mary 129,381 Jean/Jane and variants 114,529 Jan(n)et 103,122 Ann and variants 100,538 Elizabeth and variants 100,883 Isabella and variants 71,930 Agnes 57,232 Catherine/Katherine and variants 52,910 Helen and variants 52,609 Christina and variants 33,345 Others that may be of interest Sara(h) 11,324 Jessie 9,358 Susan and variants 7,441 If I've missed one, please point her out to me! Boys' names are much less affected by the vagaries of fashion. The top ten in 1858 were all still in the top 100 in 1990 1 John (8th in 1990) [228,060 in 1800-1854] 2 James (7th) [188,557] 3 William (22nd) [169,596] 4 Alexander (34th) [104,172] 5 Robert (18th) [91,471] 6 George (68th) [65,334] 7 David (1st) [58,224] 8 Thomas (24th) [58,763] 9 Andrew (5th) [34,794] 10 Charles (88th) [19,943] Anne ------------------------------- WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier message. Be sure the reply to address shows as LANARK@Rootsweb.com. You may contact the List Admin at lanark-admin@rootsweb.com or click on the following link to the list information page online: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LANARK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message