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I recently lost my bookmarked sites, and I'm trying to build up my collection of sites on names in common usage in different eras. This one has proved helpful:
http://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/Links to other sites would be appreciated. Thanks.
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...In fact it says on the front Name Your Child Eric Partridge...one need look no further than the cover.
1) 'son of' i.e. Abner Hanson, Lee Philipson
2) 'descriptive' i.e. Dawn Stammers, Fred Little,
3) 'of place' i.e. David Essex, Cyril Chorley
4) 'trade/profession i.e. Ginger Baker, Steve Butcher
And in fact, I read somewhere once that anyone with names such as those are likely to have initially descended from royalty way back in the day but I'm not sure how true that is.
Usually steal a good bunch of names from there!