I'd note that even William and George had cycles of fashion, which can probably be correlated to the use in the royal family at the time. You will find George in limited use before the time of George I, and cycles of William round William III and William IV. I've used examples of crowned members here, but same also applies to names queens, princes and princesses being reused. And of course biblical names have always been popular with non-conformists, and saints names with Roman catholics. Having made those generalisations you'd need to look at each name individually to do any proper analyis. regards Keith On 26/11/2015 07:03, xpn11 via wrote: > There are a number of web sites which detail the popularity and use of > forenames in each century-currently the grandson/great nephew "layer" in > our family is looking old fashioned-Williams Henrys and Roberts ( > somehow Hubert has not found favour...). I had some bookmarked but lost > them when I changed browser, sorry. I remember talking about this with > the list several years ago because I wondered why mid Norfolk parents > suddenly favoured the name Rhoda in the 1800s I think I wondered if > it represented them searching the Bible and showed improving literacy ( > despite all the x on registers) or that someone had been reading a > popular novel and started the trend. There was an Edwardian revival of > older names-Mildred and Maud Edgar etc maybe Tennyson to thank for that? > My year group at school had at least five Lindas, four Ruths. four > Pennys and Judiths, two Rosemarys a Barbara, several Julies and Susans > yet you would be hard pressed to find any of those names in the current > birth announcements. > One of my Southery tribe, illiterate ag labs living probably in a wooden > fen cottage, had a daughter they named Lucretia. > Rosie > > On 25/11/2015 23:47, David Tennant via wrote: >> I've transcribed in the past for FreeREG and FreeCEN and usually the end >> point was around the end of the 1800s with occasional excursions into >> the 20 th century. One thing which I found curious was the absence of >> first names which have been familiar to me through most of my life time >> since I've been able to take note of such things. >> Where were, for females, the Brendas, Paulines ,Gladyses and others in >> the 1800s. For the men I don't recall too many Cyrils, Nigels and >> Dennises for example. >> On the other hand some of the "ancient" names have had a bit of a >> resurgence eg my Grand daughters an Abigail a name which goes way back. >> Any one able to shed some light bon this? >> David >> >> >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. >> https://www.avast.com/antivirus >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >