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Thursday, December 30, 2021

Popular Female Names In Late Victorian Marlow

I have considered all possible variant spellings of each name together to be the most accurate. Before counting anyone I have made certain that I am recording their proper name e.g I have checked that an Eliza was not born an Elizabeth. The name likely insufficiently placed on this list is Mary-Ann as a double first name- it can be very hard to tell whether a woman just has the Ann as a middle name or if she is known as "Mary Ann" in her daily life because hyphens were just about never used to make matters clear.

Anyway these are the top 50 first names for females living in Marlow in the last couple of decades of the Victorian era.

1.) Elizabeth - the most popular name by a wide margin.

2.) Sarah 

3.) Annie 

4.) Mary 

5.) Ellen 

6.) Eliza 

7.) Emma 

8.) Alice 

9.) Jane 

10.) Emily 

11.) Ann 

12.) Harriet 

13.) Kate 

15.) Caroline 

16.) Charlotte

17.) Louisa 

18.) Rose 

19.) Martha 

20.) Edith 

21.) Fanny 

22.) Hannah 

23.) Ada 

24.) Maria 

25.) Florence 

26.) Agnes 

27.) Katherine 

28.) Minnie

29) Frances 

30.) Sophia 

31.) Rebecca 

32.) Margaret 

33.) Susan 

34.) Ethel 

35.) Daisy 

36.) Jessie 

37.) Eva 

38.) Gertrude 

39.) Susanna 

40. Amelia 

41.) Isabella 

42.) Mary Ann 

43.) Bertha 

44.) Rosa 

45.) Julia 

46.) Mabel 

47.) Rachel 

48.) Norah 

49.) Elsie 

50.) Selina 


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