Name Frequency

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I looked into the frequency of occurrence of common names and found the following based on the Indexes of Births for 1850 at the Public Record Office.

The numbers against the names relate to 10,000 births of the same sex in that year. For example, only 10 out of 10,000 males births would have been named Mark - a very unusual name in those days!

Boys Name	Boy's usage per 10,000 male births	Girl's name	Girl's usage per 10,000 female births
William	1449	Mary	1505
John	1241	Elizabeth	1002
George	788	Sarah	893
Thomas	788	Ann(e)	641
Henry	563	Jane	429
Charles	444	Emily	232
Robert	290	Harriet	176
Edward	254	Louisa	137
Frederick	207
Mark	10