Names in Victorian England

[Mean_genie]

I just looked at the Beatrices in the Ancestry censuses, and there is a very noticeable jump in the frequency of the name after the birth of Princess Beatrice, so you are right, MarieC

Mean_genie

[Trees]

I should have added 7 of my Beatrices are born in the 1880s
Trees

[Mean_genie]

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I have just had an email from my mother, telling me that a young relative may have spoiled our family record as a 'Royalty-free' zone . She has just given birth to a baby girl and called her Tori. (Thinks: Maybe she doesn't know it's a diminutive of Victoria?)

Mean_genie

[Old Bristolian]

Did any of the names of Queen Victoria's children's names become popular? I can only think of Leopold at the moment - that didn't I'm sure. Perhaps there was no great interest in the Royal family per se then. I have a feeling that there was a good deal of anti-royal sentiment until the Jubilee of 1897.

Also although we think of "Victoria & Albert", I've a feeling that they were baptised Alexandrina (Victoria) & Franz (Albert or Albrecht presumably)

Steve

[Gadget]

No Victorias, and one Beatrice (5 years ago as a third name)

Gadget 

[suey]

This is interesting, I've just had a look at my tree, the most popular name seems to be Elizabeth for the girls and James,George,William, John and Thomas for the boys. One Albert but he was born 1848

My husband has one family who were a bit Royal, one child was Victoria Maud Beatrice, then an Alice and another has the middle name Louise.
Again in his tree the most popular names were George and James for the boys and Mary Jane/Anne and Charlotte for the girls
One Albert in 1908...he's the only one though and I think they'd used up all the family name options by then.

Suey

[Tricia_2]

Any more takers for Beatrice - other than Carole??

MarieC

I have a Beatrice, born around 1885  ~ the year the princess married Prince Henry of Battenberg. I wonder if there is a connection???
Her daughter was also Beatrice.

[trish251]

I have two Beatrice's, mother and daughter 1906 and 1930 in the UK.  Also have seven Albert's from 1873 to 1918 all in Oz.


Brian

I have a few Alberts, but also some Herberts - as they were all known as Bert - took quite a while to discover who was who 

Trish

[MarieC]

I just looked at the Beatrices in the Ancestry censuses, and there is a very noticeable jump in the frequency of the name after the birth of Princess Beatrice, so you are right, MarieC

Mean_genie

Thanks very much for that, Mean_genie!!  Really appreciate it.  I'd been puzzling over this given name for years, and I now think this is the likely explanation. 

MarieC

(PS  Now if only I could work out where Granny's second name Katharine came from!)