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Popular Women’s Names from the Civil War (Part 2 of 3)
Posted By Brian Tomlin on July 2, 2012
What were the most popular given names during the Civil War period? This is the second 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. Today we will look at 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.
Part 3 will take a look a the names on the Lykens Valley soliders list to see which names were most popular locally. Part 3 is scheduled to be published on July 30.
| Born 1811-1820 |
| 41-50 at start of Civil War (1861) |
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| Born 1821-1830 |
| 31-40 at start of Civil War (1861) |
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| Born 1831- 1840 |
| 21-30 at start of Civil War (1861) |
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| Born 1841-1850 |
| 11- 20 at start of Civil War (1861) |
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| Born During Civil War |
| 1861-1865 |
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| Born 2011 |
| 150 years after start of Civil War |
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Source of Civil War Era names from the 1850 Census and popularity tabulated by : http://www.galbithink.org/names/us200.htm where you can view a list of all the given names in order of popularity for each decade period.
The most popular names of 2011 from the Social Security Website, where you can explore other years as well: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/
To explore other baby names form throughout the 19th Century, visit the database at Antique Baby Names
This was very helpful for me because I am writing a fictional story for English class…
but I would also appreciate if you could also find slaves names to
thanks,Julia
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This is so helpful! A friend of mine and I are writing a play and I was trying to figure out names for the characters and stumbled upon this site. Thank you so much!
AMAZING!!!!! This site helped me to come up with names for my history project. I’m supposed to write a letter to a friend, spouse, or relative in another state. The letter is supposed to take place in the Civil War era. I can also use some of these names in the book I’m writing. Thanks!!!
thank you this helped alot for my project in english class
thanks waller student
Was Gabby or Gabriella a popular name back then ,too?
was Michaela and bob or Robert and Victoria and lily a popular name
What are the last names!!!!
what are there last names u could of put it on there
Thanks very much, the names for men were also helpful – but could you also include last name?
For those of you asking about last names, we have found in our research that many of the same family names that are around today were around then. You can look at a partial list of actual soldier names to get ideas for your projects:
Thanks!
Writing a zombie book swt in post civil war america. Finally have all the names I need.
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This was actually really helpful for me. I need to write a story for Social Stories and I couldn’t find good names to use in a civil war era. THANKS!!!
thankyou! this helped for my project for science.
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I’m writing a story about a young woman who portrays herself as a man in the Civil War so thank you very much for the names they are very helpfull.
This was really helpful to make my play which the setting is during the civil war about my life turned into a fantasy.
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