Top 50 names of 1800 in England v Debrett's 50 Most Popular Names used by the Nobility 1700-1814

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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

Debrett's 1814

1-10 Elizabeth, Mary, Anne, Charlotte, Frances, Catharine, Louisa, Maria, Henrietta, Caroline

11-20 Jane, Margaret, Sophia, Harriet, Georgiana, Lucy, Isabella, Amelia, Augusta, Barbara

21-30 Anna, Sarah, Diana, Eleanora, Dorothy, Catherine, Emma, Bridget, Hester, Susannah

31-40 Emily, Grace, Juliana, Gertrude, Jemima, Arabella, Julia, Martha, Susan, Judith

41-50 Susanna, Cecilia, Frederica, Laura, Letitia, Matilda, Priscilla, Rebecca, Alicia, Cecil


These names do NOT appear among those use by Debretts' peers:

 

Agnes, Alice, Amy

Betty

Deborah, Dinah

Eleanor, Eliza

Ellen, Esther

Fanny

Hannah

Isabel

Jenny, Joan, Joanna

Kitty

Lydia

Marjorie, Mary Ann

Nancy

Peggy, Phoebe 

Rachel, Ruth

Sally

These names DO appear in Debretts but DO NOT in historicalromanceuk

 

Alicia, Amelia, Anna, Arabella, Augusta

Catharine (with an ‘a’), Cecil, Cecilia

Diana, Eleanora

Emily

Frederica

Georgiana, Gertrude 

Henrietta, Hester

Isabella

Julia, Juliana

Laura, Letitia, Louisa 

Maria, Matilda

Priscilla 

Susanna, Susannah


LYDIA - For the record, the two occasions Lydia makes an appearance in Debrett's Volume 1 the name refers to the same woman who died in 1676. It would appear therefore that none of the nobility in England, between 1700 and 1814, chose either to call their daughters, or married women called, Lydia.