Most popular girls' names in JA's time

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Most popular girls' names in JA's time Written by Anielka (2/9/2003 10:21 p.m.) in consequence of the missive, Jane Austen and Jane Bennett, penned by Patrizia

]....we have to consider that Jane was perhaps the most common female name in that time and there was at least a Jane in each family.

The most common female names in 17th - early 19th century were, in order of popularity

1)Elizabeth
2)Catherine
3)Mary
4)Anne
5)Margaret
6)Jane

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