52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks
Week 12
Prompt – Popular
I would think that the least popular
statistic these days are those reported on COVID-19.
I was recently exploring my
Legacy toolbar when I found "Family Statistics Report" tab. I always thought that there had to
be some way to sum up interesting facts on my tree. Well maybe only
interesting to me but definitely less scary than the COVID-19
statistics.
My Legacy family tree has 2117
individuals. Keep in mind that I have both Bill's family tree and
mine as one tree. More of the individuals in my tree are alive than
dead. I'm not sure if that means anything at all. However for me it
is easier to get information on the living than to find names of long
lost dead relatives.
In adding names I always got the sense
that there were given names that seemed popular in use. Legacy has
done a nice job of sorting through these given names.
First of all my family tree has 1313
unique first names. That means that there were 784 names repeated in
some way. My guess before finding these statistics would have been
that John or Johann would have been number one on this popular given
name list. Surprisingly they were tenth and seventh respectively.
Mind you only 2 repeats difference. The most popular given name was
Katharina. Keep in mind that this is the overview of all my tree's
given names throughout all time periods.
The statistics report further divides
them into popular given names by century.
In the 16th century, only 3
names are given – Dorothea, Michael and Peter. However n the 17th
century only Peter continues as a popular given name in my tree. In
fact Peter becomes the most popular.
In the 18th century the
names Aron, Christina & Elisabeth dropped off the list of popular
given names. The given names of Johann, Susanna, Jacob & Wilhelm
appear as new popular given name in this century.
Johann, Peter & Franz are not in
the 19th century list of popular given name. John & Anna make a
come back in this century. Although one could make a case that John &
Johann are the same name. Robert pops up as a new popular name.
These are the popular given names in my family tree.
Wendy
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