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This is an incomplete list of historical common names. Names may have been changed because they were considered pejorative. Names may have been changed because they were considered pejorative. Places
Name DOB–DOD Years Active Native Country Comments Albert, John: 1806–1899 1834–1847 United States Ashley, William Henry: 1778–1838 1822–1828 United States Baker, Jim: 1818–1898 1839–1873 United States Barclay, Alex: 1810–1855 1838–1855 Barclay was a British-born frontiersman of the American West.
Punctuation marks are seen more often within African-American names than other American names, such as the names Mo'nique and D'Andre. [2] [9] Even with the rise of creative names, it is also common for African Americans to use biblical names such as Daniel, Michael, David, James, Joseph, and Matthew as well as European names like Christopher ...
The following list of cowboys and cowgirls from the frontier era of the American Old West (circa 1830 to 1910) was compiled to show examples of the cowboy and cowgirl genre. Cattlemen, ranchers, and cowboys
Literature in the European sense was nearly nonexistent, with histories being far more noteworthy. These included The History and present State of Virginia (1705) by Robert Beverly and History of the Dividing Line (1728–29) by William Byrd, which was not published until a century later. Instead, the newspaper was the principal form of reading ...
It is widely held that before the 1950s and 1960s, most African-American names closely resembled those used within European-American culture. [4] Even within the European American population, a few very common names were given to babies of that era, with nicknames often used to distinguish among various people with the same name. [5]