Link to Part 1 - 1900s
Link to Part 2 - 1910s
PART THREE
YOUR CHALLENGE: Create your family using the name banks and the dice below.
CHILDREN:
Roll the dice to determine how many children you have out of six. Then roll again for the genders. odd = boy & even = girl.
AGES:
For ages of your children, roll a six sided dice.
6 = 10 yrs old
5 = 8 or 9 yrs old
4 = 6 or 7 yrs old
3 = 4 or 5 yrs old
2 = 2 or 3 yrs old
1 = nb or 1 yrs old
The parents can of course be any age and gender you like.
Have Fun
SURNAMES:
allen, armstrong, bennett, bevan, brown, carew, chadwick, cookson, davies, dickinson, dyer, edwards, evans, fletcher, freeman, green, griffiths, hicks, higgins, holland, howarth, hughes, iqbal, ingram, jenkins, jones, kaur, lewis, lowell, manning, matthews, morris, owens, parker, patel, quill, richardson, roberts, sallow, schofield, shah, singh, smith, talbot, taylor, thomas, villin, wilson, wood, yates, young, zouch
NAMEBANKS:
ada, agnes, alice, alma, ann/anne, annie, amy, audrey, barbara, beatrice, beryl, betty, brenda, bridget, catherine, christine, constance, daisy, daphne, dora, doreen, doris, dorothy, edith, edna, eileen, eleanor, elizabeth, ellen, elsie, emily, enid, ethel, eva, evelyn, florence, frances, freda, gertrude, gladys, grace, gwendoline, hannah, hazel, helen, hilda, irene, iris, ivy, jane, janet, jean, jessie, joan, josephine, joyce, june, kathleen, lilian/lillian, lily, lucy, mabel, margaret, marjorie, maria, marie, marion, mary, maureen, mavis, may, mildred, monica, muriel, nancy, nellie, nora/norah, olive, pamela, patricia, pauline, peggy, phyllis, rita, rose, rosemary, ruby, ruth, sarah, sheila, stella, sybil, sylvia, thelma, vera, violet, winifred
alan/allan, albert, alec, alexander, alfred, andrew, anthony, arnold, arthur, basil, benjamin, bernard, brian, cecil, charles, christopher, clifford, colin, cyril, daniel, david, denis/dennis, derek/derrick, desmond, donald, douglas, edgar, edmund, edward, edwin, eric, ernest, francis, frank, fred, frederick, geoffrey, george, gerald, gilbert, gordon, graham, horace, harold, harry, henry, herbert, howard, hubert, hugh, ian, ivan, ivor, jack, james, john, joseph, keith, kenneth, laurence/lawrence, leonard, leslie, lewis, lionel, martin, maurice, michael, mohammed, norman, owen, patrick, paul, percy, peter, philip, ralph, raymond, reginald, richard, robert, roland, ronald, roy, samuel, sidney/sydney, stanley, stephen, terence, thomas, trevor, victor, vincent, walter, wilfred, william
Additional Information about the Top 100 Names of the 1920s
For those who are interested, this data was taken from 1924. Below are the names that made it into the Top 100 of that year and the ones that fell out of the Top 100.
New Names:
alma, brenda, christine, daphne, gertrude, hazel, june, maureen, mavis, monica, pamela, pauline, peggy, rita, rosemary, sheila, stella, sybil & thelma
allan, brian, derek, derrick, desmond, graham, ian, ivan, keith, mohammed, terence
Lost Names:
amelia, bertha, bessie, charlotte, clara, emma, esther, ida, isabella, kate, laura, louisa, margery, martha, maud, millicent, minnie & rosina
archibald, bertram, clarence, claude, evan, louis, matthew, percival, phillip & tom
NOW LIST YOUR FAMILY BELOW!