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The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally.Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends, or else be composed of the personal names occurring most often within the total population.
Many examples have now become normal names chosen because parents like them, and any political sense lost. Most are male names like Cecil, Gerald [citation needed], Howard, Percy, Montague, Stanley or Gordon, though some of those some have female versions like Cecilia or Geraldine. Other languages have few equivalents, although the saint's ...
This category is for given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
Distinct words and names for men and women are also common in languages which do not have a grammatical gender system for nouns in general. English, for example, has feminine suffixes such as -ess (as in waitress), and also distinguishes male and female personal names, as in the above examples.
Old English had multiple generic nouns for "woman" stretching across all three genders: for example, in addition to the neuter wif and the masculine wifmann listed above, there was also the feminine frowe. [2]: 6 For the gender-neutral nouns for "child", there was the neuter bearn and the neuter cild (compare English child).
The most popular given names by state in the United States vary. This is a list of the top 10 names in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for the years 1996 through 2023. This information is taken from the "Popular Baby Names" database maintained by the United States Social Security Administration. [1]
For example, in England and Wales, the most popular female and male names given to babies born in 1800 were Mary and John, with 24% of female babies and 22% of male babies receiving those names, respectively. [32] In contrast, the corresponding statistics for England and Wales in 1994 were Emily and James, with 3% and 4% of names, respectively.
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