[name_m]Hi[/name_m] everyone!
I´ve posted quite alot recently, as I´m thinking about names alot recently. So here I am, thinking again, I´d love if you guys could pitch in with what names (Girls and Boys) you feel are Civil War names…hint I love [name_m]Ambrose[/name_m], so Im not too fuzzy with quirky names hehe.
Thanks! 
Most are pretty boring/classic/common…[name_m]John[/name_m], [name_u]James[/name_u], [name_m]William[/name_m], [name_m]Thomas[/name_m], [name_m]George[/name_m], [name_m]Matthew[/name_m], [name_m]Richard[/name_m], [name_m]Robert[/name_m], [name_m]Nathaniel[/name_m], [name_m]Henry[/name_m], [name_m]Benjamin[/name_m], [name_m]Charles[/name_m], [name_m]Felix[/name_m], [name_m]Nicolas[/name_m], [name_m]Daniel[/name_m], [name_m]Edward[/name_m], [name_m]Jonathan[/name_m], [name_m]Samuel[/name_m], [name_m]David[/name_m], [name_m]Louis[/name_m]/[name_m]Lewis[/name_m], [name_m]Frederick[/name_m], [name_u]Francis[/name_u], [name_m]Michael[/name_m], [name_m]Alexander[/name_m], [name_m]Stephen[/name_m], [name_m]Timothy[/name_m]. The most unusual I found was [name_m]Augustine[/name_m].
[name_f]Scarlett[/name_f]
[name_m]Rhett[/name_m]
[name_f]India[/name_f]
[name_u]Cade[/name_u]
[name_u]Wade[/name_u]
[name_u]Ashley[/name_u]
[name_f]Ellen[/name_f]
[name_f]Melanie[/name_f]
[name_m]Gerald[/name_m]
[name_m]Charles[/name_m]
[name_m]Stuart[/name_m]
[name_m]Brent[/name_m]
[name_m]Beau[/name_m]
Careen
[name_f]Suellen[/name_f]
Most of the names I come across looking at records from that era are pretty standard - [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f], [name_f]Anne[/name_f], [name_f]Jane[/name_f], [name_f]Martha[/name_f], [name_f]Ellen[/name_f], [name_m]George[/name_m], [name_u]James[/name_u], [name_m]Edward[/name_m], [name_m]John[/name_m], [name_m]William[/name_m], etc. I also see a lot of maiden names as first/middle names (of course), OT Biblical names, patriotic names ([name_m]George[/name_m] [name_m]Washington[/name_m], [name_m]Benjamin[/name_m] [name_m]Franklin[/name_m], etc), and extremely unusual/made-up, elaborate names in the middle spot. Marcenia, [name_f]Amarantha[/name_f], Hazeltine, Ellafaire/Allifair, Glovenia, [name_f]Parthenia[/name_f], that kind of elaborate… I see [name_m]Augustus[/name_m], [name_m]Cornelius[/name_m], [name_f]Clementine[/name_f], and [name_f]Matilda[/name_f] far more than I think I should. Anything Greek or [name_m]Roman[/name_m] in the middle spot along the lines of [name_m]Homer[/name_m], [name_m]Virgil[/name_m], [name_f]Sophronia[/name_f], and [name_f]Aurelia[/name_f] would work. These are kind of just general trends I’ve noticed. I wish someone would pay me to draw up name popularity charts from the Revolutionary War era through the Reconstruction era, because I would totally do it.
Where do you find your records for the pre-1880 names?
I’m in the middle of an [name_m]Abraham[/name_m] [name_m]Lincoln[/name_m] biography (Team of Rivals) and some of the names include:
BOYS
[name_m]Ulysses[/name_m]
[name_u]Salmon[/name_u]
[name_m]Thurlow[/name_m]
[name_m]Gideon[/name_m]
[name_m]Preston[/name_m]
[name_m]Thaddeus[/name_m]
[name_u]Ira[/name_u]
[name_m]Montgomery[/name_m]
[name_u]Sterling[/name_u]
[name_m]Fleming[/name_m]
GIRLS
[name_f]Jeanette[/name_f] “[name_f]Nettie[/name_f]”
[name_f]Lucy[/name_f]
[name_f]Cornelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Frances[/name_f]
[name_f]Adeline[/name_f]
I’m assuming you’re talking to me. Basically any genealogy resource: census records, church records, marriage records, death records, family Bibles, cemeteries, etc.
I would [name_f]LOVE[/name_f] to get my hands on that chart! Nameberry should start a grant fund. 
Those are some good ones from alzora! My own Civil War-era ancestors had some “different” names including:
Lycurgus
Presha
Prussia
[name_f]Mahala[/name_f]
[name_f]Caledonia[/name_f]
[name_u]Marion[/name_u] (boy)
[name_m]Bartlett[/name_m]
Burlin
[name_m]Harmon[/name_m]
[name_m]Autry[/name_m] (boy)
[name_m]Washington[/name_m] nn [name_m]Wash[/name_m]
[name_f]Pearlie[/name_f]
Nameberry has a great list
Lots of great names here. Another I think is worth adding: [name_f]Lorena[/name_f]. It was a popular song during the war-- read more about it here: Lorena (song) - Wikipedia – and in fact, in GWTW [name_f]Scarlett[/name_f] names her daughter [name_f]Ella[/name_f] [name_f]Lorena[/name_f] and mentions that it’s become popular for baby girls because of the song.