Factsheets

Coming soon! A series of factsheets on various female names. This post acts as a key, telling you where I got all my data from.

Meanings
Oxford Dictionary of First Names, cross-checked with other sources including Penguin Dictionary of First Names, Behindthename.com and The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names by E. G. Withycombe. 

England and Wales statistics
Anglo-Saxon record: from Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
13th century: from Henry III Fine Rolls Project
Earliest birth record: from Family Search
1550-1690: from George Redmond's Christian Names in Local and Family History
1840-1905: from FreeBMD birth records (see also Victorian Smiths blog posts)
1914-1994: from Emma Merry's First Names
2004-2011: from Office of National Statistics

US statistics
1880-2011: from SSA website