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Popular Given Names of Lykens Valley Soldiers (Part 3 of 3)
Posted By Brian Tomlin on July 30, 2012
What were the most popular given names during the Civil War period? This is the third part of a three part study of that question. Part 1 looked at the most popular men’s names of U.S. men born during the period 1811-1850, the broad period that made up the vast majority of Civil War Soldiers. Part 2 featured the most common girl’s names from the period 1811-1850 as well as the popular names of girls born during the civil war (1861-1865) and compare that with the most popular girl’s names from 2011, 150 years later.
Today look a the names on the Lykens Valley soliders list to see which names were most popular locally.
Of the 200 different first names identified on the local soldier list of 2934 names from the Gratz Historical Society’s Civil War Project, the following are the top 20 in frequency:
| John | 400 |
| William | 289 |
| Joseph | 189 |
| George | 179 |
| Henry | 170 |
| Jacob | 106 |
| Samuel | 100 |
| Daniel | 95 |
| James | 80 |
| David | 61 |
| Isaac | 57 |
| Benjamin | 52 |
| Charles | 49 |
| Elias | 45 |
| Edward | 42 |
| Peter | 42 |
| Emmanuel | 40 |
| Michael | 38 |
| (Unknown Name) | 38 |
| Thomas | 31 |
To see the whole frequency list in order from most popular to least popular, click here.
To see the list of first names in alphabetical order, click here.
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