Following on from Top 200 Most Popular Names in England and Wales in 1840 Part 1, here are the same rankings but with different spellings combined.
For ease I have listed the most common form of the name as the total entry -- e.g. Catherine is listed here for Catherine, Catharine, Cathrine, Katherine and Katharine as it was the most common spelling.
To see how common the different spellings were, you can check Part 1 for an individual rank for each name.
The top ranks, for the most part, remain unchanged. It is the lower ranks that see the most shift. Overall, there was much more movement with the girls' names than the boys'. The top 100 barely shifts for the boys with the notable exception of Sidney (up from #80 to #66), Morris (#104 to #76) and Feargus (#97 to #121 - thanks to Feargus O'Connor).
For the girls' top 100, Catherine, Susannah, Eleanor, Betsy, Joanna, Kezia, Thirza, Jessie, Marian, Theresa, Emeline, Bessy and Sabina make noticeable shifts upwards.
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Combined Spellings for the Top 200 names in England and Wales in 1840:
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| John |
| Thomas |
| James |
| George |
| Henry |
| Joseph |
| Charles |
| Robert |
| Edward |
| Richard |
| Samuel |
| Alfred |
| Frederick |
| David |
| Edwin |
| Benjamin |
| Albert |
| Francis |
| Daniel |
| Isaac |
| Walter |
| Peter |
| Arthur |
| Stephen |
| Matthew |
| Edmund |
| Abraham |
| Jonathan |
| Philip |
| Michael |
| Christopher |
| Alexander |
| Mark |
| Andrew |
| Hugh |
| Joshua |
| Evan |
| Jesse |
| Josiah |
| Job |
| Lewis |
| Jacob |
| Ralph |
| Reuben |
| Herbert |
| Owen |
| Frank |
| Harry |
| Enoch |
| Tom |
| Eli |
| Jeremiah |
| Elijah |
| Amos |
| Jabez |
| Timothy |
| Luke |
| Moses |
| Anthony |
| Cornelius |
| Patrick |
| Martin |
| Nicholas |
| Aaron |
| Sidney |
| Ebenezer |
| Nathaniel |
| Emanuel |
| Levi |
| Adam |
| Ephraim |
| Allen |
| Griffith |
| Noah |
| Morris |
| Simon |
| Jonas |
| Elias |
| Nathan |
| Oliver |
| Lawrence |
| Solomon |
| Leonard |
| Ellis |
| Morgan |
| Ambrose |
| Rees |
| Simeon |
| Roger |
| Augustus |
| Caleb |
| Abel |
| Isaiah |
| Dennis |
| Rowland |
| Feargus |
| Sam |
| Paul |
| Clement |
| Israel |
| Sampson |
| Edgar |
| Elisha |
| Joel |
| Humphrey |
| Joe |
| Dan |
| Miles |
| Gilbert |
| Horatio |
| Theophilus |
| Zachariah |
| Uriah |
| Archibald |
| Seth |
| Absalom |
| Wilson |
| Ernest |
| Hezekiah |
| Jonah |
| Ben |
| Silas |
| Ezra |
| Bartholomew |
| Llewellyn |
| Bernard |
| Giles |
| Felix |
| Horace |
| Jenkin |
| Robinson |
| Squire |
| Septimus |
| Hiram |
| Wright |
| Vincent |
| Shadrach |
| Harvey |
| Smith |
| Matthias |
| Theodore |
| Valentine |
| Jasper |
| Johnson |
| Cuthbert |
| Enos |
| Walker |
| Adolphus |
| Fred |
| Godfrey |
| Watkin |
| Ezekiel |
| Howell |
| Nehemiah |
| Austin |
| Christian |
| Obadiah |
| Jeffery |
| Hartley |
| Lot |
| Spencer |
| Titus |
| Julius |
| Silvester |
| Esau |
| Harrison |
| Percy |
| Reginald |
| Alban |
| Bryan |
| Donald |
| Lionel |
| Marshall |
| Bennet |
| Oswald |
| Price |
| Barnett |
| Gabriel |
| Watson |
| Zephaniah |
| Cyrus |
| Douglas |
| Jarvis |
| Marmaduke |
| Greenwood |
| Hubert |
| Abram |
| Arnold |
| Cecil |
| Julian |
| Lancelot |
| Abednego |
| Eugene |
| Lister |
| Nelson |
| Percival |
| Silvanus |
| Wilfred |
| Abner |
| Lambert |
| Raymond |
| Rufus |
| Stewart |
| Wallace |
| Willoughby |
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| Mary |
| Elizabeth |
| Sarah |
| Ann |
| Jane |
| Eliza |
| Emma |
| Hannah |
| Margaret |
| Ellen |
| Harriet |
| Martha |
| Maria |
| Catherine |
| Emily |
| Charlotte |
| Alice |
| Caroline |
| Susannah |
| Louisa |
| Frances |
| Fanny |
| Isabella |
| Rebecca |
| Susan |
| Eleanor |
| Lucy |
| Sophia |
| Esther |
| Amelia |
| Matilda |
| Betsy |
| Rachel |
| Lydia |
| Julia |
| Selina |
| Anna |
| Agnes |
| Ruth |
| Phoebe |
| Grace |
| Betty |
| Clara |
| Nancy |
| Helen |
| Jemima |
| Priscilla |
| Henrietta |
| Dorothy |
| Rhoda |
| Dinah |
| Rosanna |
| Bridget |
| Georgiana |
| Lavinia |
| Hester |
| Christiana |
| Joanna |
| Rosina |
| Rose |
| Kezia |
| Victoria |
| Amy |
| Sally |
| Laura |
| Marianne |
| Barbara |
| Rosa |
| Leah |
| Naomi |
| Rosetta |
| Diana |
| Thirza |
| Edith |
| Mercy |
| Kate |
| Letitia |
| Adelaide |
| Jessie |
| Marian |
| Deborah |
| Ada |
| Augusta |
| Cecilia |
| Jennet |
| Janet |
| Georgina |
| Theresa |
| Miriam |
| Nanny |
| Isabel |
| Abigail |
| Angelina |
| Prudence |
| Emeline |
| Bessy |
| Phillis |
| Sabina |
| Judith |
| Celia |
| Patience |
| Winifred |
| Gwenllian |
| Emila |
| Hephzibah |
| Millicent |
| Annie |
| Mahala |
| Clarissa |
| Dorcas |
| Olive |
| Gwen |
| Honor |
| Flora |
| Kitty |
| Arabella |
| Levina |
| Mira |
| Lettice |
| Margery |
| Annis |
| Tamar |
| Bertha |
| Charity |
| Juliana |
| Gertrude |
| Pamela |
| Lois |
| Zillah |
| Tabitha |
| Eunice |
| Peggy |
| Tryphena |
| Philippa |
| Faith |
| Thomasin |
| Jenny |
| Cicely |
| Blanche |
| Margaretta |
| Joyce |
| Edna |
| Helena |
| Penelope |
| Joan |
| Drusilla |
| Cordelia |
| Adeline |
| Honora |
| Lowry |
| Lucretia |
| Bethia |
| Constance |
| Euphemia |
| Leonora |
| Zilpha |
| Josephine |
| Temperance |
| Olivia |
| Florence |
| Annette |
| Ursula |
| Amanda |
| Rosamond |
| Sylvia |
| Madeline |
| Norah |
| Salome |
| Theodosia |
| Christina |
| Loveday |
| Clementina |
| Keturah |
| Asenath |
| Melinda |
| May |
| Paulina |
| Allison |
| Dorothea |
| Frederica |
| Violet |
| Bathsheba |
| Philadelphia |
| Agatha |
| Annabella |
| Bella |
| Belinda |
| Dora |
| Elvina |
| Lucinda |
| Magdalen |
| Virtue |
| Mabel |
| Zipporah |
| Annetta |
| Easter |
| Jenefer |
| Louise |
| Marie |
| Comfort |
| Ella |
| Elvira |
| Octavia |
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Statistics compiled by Eleanor Nickerson at britishbabynames.com
No unauthorised copying without credit or permission.
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Names in bold are those that have moved into the top 200 when spellings are combined.
