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Popular given Names in the 1870s

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

It gets a bit more difficult to accumulate the most popular names before 1880, to get these, the census has to be gleaned and filtered for birth year. I’m using this site as a reference for prior to 1880:

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Popular Baby Names from 1890

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Here are the most popular baby names from the year 1890:

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Popular Baby names from 1910

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

Here is the listing of the most common baby names in 1910:

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Popular Baby Names from 1930

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Here is the listing of most popular baby names from 1930:

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Popular Baby Names from 1950

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Here are the most popular baby names from 1950:

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Popular Baby Names for 1970

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Here’s the listing of popular baby names from 1970:

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Popular Baby Names for 1990

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Here’s the list of Popular Baby Names from the year 1990:

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Popular Baby Names for 2007

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

This is the first in a series of posts listing popular baby names. I’m alternating posts between here and my North Carolina Genealogy site. I intend to mostly cover census years, but I wanted to start with a more current list for a baseline.

2007 – popular baby names:

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