This week's prompt ended in me doing a statistical analysis of the given names in my family tree over the last five generations. I wanted to see where we stacked-up against some of the other lists one sees when perusing the popular baby name sites. Results follow.
Top 5 Boy Names:
1. William - far and away the most popular on both sides of the tree
2. James
3. John
4. Thomas
5. Robert
Honorable mentions: Richard and George
(Apparently) not-so-honorable: Albert, Alexander, Benjamin, Bernard, Cyrus, Daniel, Edson, Francis, Fred, Henry, Jesse, Joel, Kenneth, Michael, Mortimer, Patrick, Paul, Peter, and Ralph.
Top 5 Girl Names:
1. Mary
2. Margaret
3. Alice
4. Elizabeth
5. Sarah
Honorable mentions: Ann, Lola, Dorothy, and Martha
Also ran: Adeline, Agnes, Bridget, Catherine, Delia, Eunice, Flora, Frances, Gertrude, Hattie, Hildegarde, Isabel, Jacquelyn, Laura, Leigh, Lillian, Loretta, Louise, Lula, Marie, Maybel, Mildred, Myrtle, Nellie, Regina, Rita, Roberta, Ruth, Sharon, and Sylvia.
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