Surname Names Names

Family names used as first names. Most began as one of four things: a father's name, a trade, a place, or a nickname — and the trade ones are the easiest to read centuries later.

38 names, uncommon — 100 to 499 a year, in United States

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A style is our reading of a name. A decade is the register — the names children were actually given, in order, with the counts.

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