Family tree 1480 onwards
This is a long one. Have been tracing my family tree for the last few years and I have a running list of names that come up more than once or in variations.
All of these have been (painstakingly 💀) confirmed to be different people (ie not the same person with different name spellings across various documents… WHICH HAPPENED TOO OFTEN BACK THEN!)
Most of these are from northern Germany and Denmark + some Sweden, from 1480 to 1950ish. This is just part of the list.
Girls:
Adelheid x 2
Adelheide x 1
Agnes x 3
Agathe x 4
Alwine x 2
Anna x 11
Anneliese x 2
Anni x 1
Auguste x 4
Benedicta x 2
Benedicte x 1
Catharina/Katharina x 6 (Katharina x 1)
Catherine x 2
Christina x 3
Charlotte x 6
Christiane x 3
Christine x 4
Dorothea x 8
Dorothee x 1
Elisabeth x 17
Elise x 4
Emilie x 5
Francisca x 3
Frederica x 2
Frieda x 2
Friederike x 6
Hedwig/Hedvig 4
Henriette x 5
Henrietta x 2
Henninge x 1 (with all the boy Hennings…)
Ida x 3
Johanna x 9
Johanne x 1
Josine x 3
Juliane x 3
Karoline x 3
Maria x 6
Marie x 4
Magdalene x 4
Magdalena x 2
Marghareta/Margaretha x 7
Margarethe/Margrethe x 3
Rebecca x 4 (The earliest from the 1750s… why did I think this was a more modern name)
Sophie x 5
Sophia x 7
Wilhelmine x 8
Wilhelmina x 3
Special shout-out to the one Ernestine and Klaudine I found (love it) and a woman named Heinriche (don’t love it).
Boys:
Abel x 3
Adolf/Adolph x 5 (all before 1900)
Benedict x 3
Bendix x 2
Bernhard x 4
Cai x 8
Carl/Karl x 11 (8 x Carl)
Christian x 11
Conrad x 3
Detlef/Detlev x 6
Ernst x 3
Ferdinand x 3
Frederik x 4
Friedrich x 16
Hans/Hanß x 10
Heinrich x 12
Henning x 5
Hermann x 4
Hinrich x 4
Jacob/Jakob x 4
Joachim x 12
Johan x 2
Johann x 10
Johannes x 3
Josef/Joseph x 4
Jürgen x 3
Klaus/Claus x 5
Otto x 3
Peter x 6
Rasmus x 3
Wilhelm x 8
Willi x 4 (doesn’t fly in English 😂)
Wulf x 6
These were all used as first and middle names. :)
ETA: 700+ years and so far not a single Alexander/Alexandra or variation thereof. There’s more branches being added as I go, but that’s wild to me.