Christian Names of the Peer-Esses and their daughters

The historicalromanceuk.blogspot on January 5 2012 published a list of the 50 most frequently used names for women in 1800. Their list was based on English parish records collated by The Names Society.

1-10: Mary, Anne, Elizabeth, Sarah, Jane, Hannah, Susan, Martha, Margaret, Charlotte

11-20: Harriet, Betty, Maria, Catherine, Frances, Mary Ann, Nancy, Rebecca, Alice, Ellen

21-30: Sophia, Lucy, Isabel, Eleanor, Esther, Fanny, Eliza, Grace, Sally, Rachel

31-40: Lydia, Caroline, Dorothy, Peggy, Ruth, Kitty, Jenny, Phoebe, Agnes, Emma

41-50: Amy, Jemima, Dinah, Barbara, Joan, Joanna, Deborah, Judith, Bridget, Marjorie

I thought an interesting comparison would be look at archival records for 1700-1820 and compile a list of the names the nobility actually used.

My sources are:

(1) The peerage of the nobility of England, Scotland and Ireland

by Hugh Clark and Thomas Wormull - published in 1779

Although the records are much sparser than in Debrett's, Messrs Clark and Wormbull have one category of information Debrett's omits - the nobilities' Town Residences.

(2) Debrett’s Correct Peerage of England Scotland and Ireland

The Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland (1814) Vol1

My self-imposed rules for Debrett's, when selecting names were:

• To separate the lists into Groups - Duchesses and Daughters; Marchionesses and Daughters; Countesses and Daughters; Viscountesses and Daughters; Baronesses and Daughters. I have not made any distinction between Daughters and Daughters-in-law and between Daughters and Grand-Daughters.
• I have subsequently begun to 'group' the names by Lines - e.g. Norfolk, Somerset, Richmond, Grafton within the Duchesses group.
• To exclude any names from before 1700 - unless they were married in the 1690s and the daughters were born in the 1700s
• To accept the spellings in Debrett's (e.g. Le Pell and Lepell)
• In all probability a sizeable proportion of individuals will appear as Daughters in Group and Wives in another Group.
• I did NOT include antecedents whom Debrett's includes as an integral element of the geneology of the Nobility 

Vol 1 provides 4237 names referring to women who were either born-into or married-into the Peerage.

Duchesses and Daughters - Lines 16; 313 Individuals using 49 names

Marchionesses and Daughters - Lines 15; 332 Indicduals using 60 names; Number of Names 387;

Countesses and Daughters - Lines 95; 1402 Individuals using 128 names; Number of Names 1779;

Viscountesses and Daughters - Lines 23; 256 Individuals using 61 Names;

Baronesses and Daughters - Lines 127; 1079 Individuals using 155 Names.

See the comparison of historicalromanceuk.blogspot (The Names Society) Top 50 names in 1800s and Debrett's