Male First Names

I thought that I’d better look at the male given names seeing I’ve looked at female names.  In the Family Tree I’ve done for SNR there are 120 direct males ancestors with 138 names of which 42 are different. This result surprised me. I thought there would be a smaller variety of names compared to women.  The list is as follows:

John - 25

William - 17

Thomas - 12

Robert - 8

George - 8

Joseph - 6

Richard -5

Samuel - 4

James - 4

Henry - 4

Frederick - 4

Edward - 3

Albert - 3

Warner - 2

Nicholas - 2

Hugh - 2

Charles - 2

Augustus - 2

Arthur - 2

Then one occurrence of each of the following: Wilfrid, Walter, Victor, Nathaniel, Michael, Kenneth, Job, Jacob, Isaac, Ian, Herbert, Gary, Francis, Elliot, Elijah, Eli, Edmund, Douglas, David, Christian, Cecil, Alfred, Adrian.

The areas that are difficult to research are not represented and this skews the results!

If you compare these names to the ten most popular Australian names for boys in 2013, the only duplicate is William (number 4 in Australia). However, you could argue there were two additional names: Jack (no. 2) is a derivative of John and Charlie (no. 6) is a derivative of Charles.