Above, a screen shot from my search for Capitola, which was the given name of my husband's 1c1r on his maternal side. Including spelling variations, there are more than 19.6 million people named Capitola covered by the US Census.
Here are some other names I searched and how many I found enumerated in the entire span of the US Census.
D'Alva - 10.4 million
Elfie - 34 million
Elroy - 32.6 million
Elveretta - 35.7 million
Floyda - 15.5 million
Lavatia - 25 million
Leander - 25.2 million
Ulysses - 490,000 (this was a surprise, given the popularity of the other names)
Compare these statistics with one of the most common given names in hubby's family tree: Jane, which appears 91 million times in the US Census over the years!
Have you tried this with some of the seemingly uncommon given names in your tree?
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