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Do you want your child to be an attorney?Conrad Saam has done a study on lawyer's names over the past 200 years.

If you want your child to one day earn a Juris Doctorate, now is the time to start planning.You now have access to the most comprehensive analysis on lawyer names ever done through nameberry.

I run marketing for an online legal directory called Avvo where we help people make an informed decision when hiring an attorney by rating and profiling over 90% of the lawyers in the country.I have access to the most comprehensive data on lawyer first names ever assembled, culled from state bar records from across the country.There are about 1.5 million lawyers.

The names were grouped for each decade.I built two more groups, one from the first half of last century and one for the 1800's, because our data gets more sparse with age.I created lists of the top 20 names.The date associated with each name is when the attorney was accepted by the state bar, which is 25 years after the baby-cum-lawyer was named.

Obviously, these lists correlate with popularity of names over time, but the actual results are amazingly consistent and defy many overall name trends.Every decade starting in the 1950s, the 1901-1950 group and even the Top 20 list from the 1800s have eight of the top twenty names.In order of Frequency, these are.

John shows up in the Top 5 of every list going back to the 1800's.For the past decade, the top names are:

1.Michael2.David3.John4.JENNIFER5.The man is named Matthew.His name is Christopher.James8.Robert9.DanIEL10BRIAN11.There is a boy named Jackson.WILLIAM13.ANDREW14.JosePH15.ELIZABETH16.Thomas 17.J. Jeffrey18.Mark19.She was named Sarah20.Richard.

The first generation of Baby Boom lawyers were represented by the Top 20 names from the 1970s.

1.John 2.Robert3.James4.WILLIAM5.Michael6.Richard7.David8.Thomas9.Charles 10.JosePH11.He was named Stephen12.EVEN13.There is a person named Paul14.Mark 15.EDWARD 16.DonaLD 17.GEORGE18.PETER19.GARY20.There is a man named Ronald.

The members of the 1950s list were mostly named in the 1920s and 1930s.

1.John 2.Robert3.WILLIAM4.JAMES5.Richard6.Charles7.JosePH8.Thomas9.George 10.DonaLD11.EDWARD 12.David13.There is a person named Paul14.FRANK 15.ARTHUR 16.JACK 17.There is a man named Harold18.WALTER19.HARRY20.Herbert.