What's the most common name in your family tree?

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

I just got an email from my aunt and she had listed all the names in her baby book-- here they are, I just cut and pasted so the spelling may be bad! One name, Mary, just jumps out at me.. Margaret to a lesser extent.. over and over.. haha. And oh yah, can you guess what ethnicity we are!? ;) The 'baby' is my aunt, who as the eldest of 7, so the great grandfather is my great great grandfather.

Our Famly Tree

great grandfather - William Hammill great grandfather - Jeremiah J. Spillane

great grandmother - Mary Nihan great gramdmother - Mary Frances Dooris

grandmother - Elizabeth Hammil grandfather - John Henry Spillane


father - John Henry Spillane, Jr

baby - Margaret Mary Spillane

mother - Margaret Mary Ruddy


granmother - Kathryn Ryan grandfather - Anthony John Ruddy

great grandmother - Elizabeth Reynolds great grandmother - Margaret M. Monoghan

great grandfather - Thomas Ryan great grandfather - Michael Ruddy

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[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

In my mom's [Irish/French] family, the repeated names are:
Ann (Mom, mom's cousin, mom's aunt, mom's great aunt, and my sister's middle name)
Emily (my mom didn't know that her great aunt's name was Emily when she named my sister but it's cool)
Marguerite (my grandmother, my aunt Claire's middle, and Claire's daughter's name)
Michael (my cousin Ken's middle, and my cousin Mike)
Craig (my grandfather, uncle, and a name that Ken may use-Craig is his dad)
Edward (great uncle and 2 second cousins)

In my dad's [Italian] family, the repeated names are:
Helen (2 of my dad's cousins married Helens, my grandmother went by Helen although her name was Elena)
Elena (my grandmother, my middle name)
Louise/Louisa (great-aunt, and 3 second cousins)
Michael (too many to name, used a lot as a middle)
David (too many to name, used a lot as a middle)
Joseph (too many to name, used a lot as a middle)