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January 26

Historical name frequency in Germany / UK

I am looking for information on the historical frequency of given names in Germany and the UK. Ideally, I'd like a resource that is circa 1900, but I'm not sure if such a list exists. I'm trying to explore the idea that someone who lived in Germany more than a century ago had given names that would be rare in Germany but that those same names would be less unusual if this person had emigrated from the UK. Dragons flight (talk) 19:39, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Here are a couple of sources for the UK: top 100 given names (male + female) for those born in 1900 [1], and a paper on given name popularity over a much longer period, which doesn't have a chart for 1900, but has one for 1825. [2]. I'll see if I can find anything equivalent for Germany. --Xuxl (talk) 21:27, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Here are a couple of sites for German names. The sources don't look perfectly reliable, but it should work for your purposes: [3] and [4]. --Xuxl (talk) 21:29, 26 January 2018 (UTC)