When going through the lists on names it struck me that there was a lot of certain names cropping up, so I’ve reordered the lists to see which names occurred most frequently – 253 Johns died..
| John | 253 | Sidney | 4 | Charley | 1 |
| William | 221 | Stephen | 4 | Cuthbery | 1 |
| Thomas | 176 | Andrew | 3 | Cyril | 1 |
| James | 163 | Aurthur | 3 | Daniel | 1 |
| Robert | 98 | Elijah | 3 | Donald | 1 |
| Richard | 75 | Eric | 3 | Douglas | 1 |
| Joseph | 74 | H | 3 | Elicksander | 1 |
| George | 72 | Hubert | 3 | Ignatius | 1 |
| Henry | 71 | Jack | 3 | Jas | 1 |
| Charles | 50 | Micheal | 3 | Kenneth | 1 |
| Albert | 49 | Stanley | 3 | Kieth | 1 |
| Edward | 47 | Timothy | 3 | Laurence | 1 |
| Frederick | 43 | Victor | 3 | Leslie | 1 |
| Arthur | 34 | Allan | 2 | Lester | 1 |
| Alfred | 32 | Archibald | 2 | Levi | 1 |
| Walter | 30 | Arnold | 2 | Lionel | 1 |
| Frank | 27 | Cornelius | 2 | Llewellyn | 1 |
| Harry | 25 | E | 2 | Malcolm | 1 |
| Francis | 24 | Earnest | 2 | Martin | 1 |
| Harold | 24 | Edgar | 2 | Matthias | 1 |
| Fred | 22 | G | 2 | Maxwell | 1 |
| Joesph | 21 | Geoffrey | 2 | Moyah | 1 |
| Herbert | 17 | Ivan | 2 | Nathan | 1 |
| Samuel | 15 | Jesse | 2 | Proctor | 1 |
| Percy | 14 | Joe | 2 | R | 1 |
| Christopher | 11 | Johnathan | 2 | S | 1 |
| David | 10 | Leo | 2 | Sam | 1 |
| Alexander | 9 | Lewis | 2 | Silas | 1 |
| Benjamin | 7 | Maurice | 2 | Stewart | 1 |
| Hugh | 7 | Rowland | 2 | Thom | 1 |
| Peter | 7 | Rueben | 2 | Thos | 1 |
| Patrick | 6 | Septimus | 2 | Tobias | 1 |
| Sydney | 6 | T | 2 | Tomas | 1 |
| Anthony | 5 | Tom | 2 | W | 1 |
| Edwin | 5 | Wilfred | 2 | WH | 1 |
| Lawrence | 5 | A | 1 | Walker | 1 |
| Matthew | 5 | ACW | 1 | Clive | 1 |
| Norman | 5 | Abraham | 1 | Conrad | 1 |
| Wilifrid | 5 | Abram | 1 | Emmanuel | 1 |
| Bernard | 4 | Alban | 1 | Emanuel | 1 |
| Clifford | 4 | Almer | 1 | Ephraim | 1 |
| Edmund | 4 | Aloysius | 1 | Ephrain | 1 |
| Gilbert | 4 | Alphonsus | 1 | F | 1 |
| J | 4 | Ambrose | 1 | Gerald | 1 |
| Leonard | 4 | Amos | 1 | Horace | 1 |
| Louis | 4 | Bartholomew | 1 | ||
| Phillip | 4 | Benjaman | 1 | ||
| Ralph | 4 | Bert | 1 | ||
| Reginald | 4 | Bertram | 1 | ||
| Roger | 4 | CH | 1 |
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