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Lots of variants of Matti like Matts, Matthias. Lauri turns up a lot. A few generations back there's a lot of use in patronymics (for example Antinpoika and Antintytar for Antti's sons and daughters) for middle names so there's a few Lauri Laurinpoika (Lauri's son) going down in line. In one set of siblings there's two Lauris, looks like one must have died very young, maybe as a baby, and the younger brother was then given his name.
There's a lot of variants for Margaret for the women like Marketta, Margeta, Margaretha and Margareta. Lots of Brita/Priitta as well.
Lots of Sigfrids and Sigrids on my great-grandmother's side (I'm looking only at my maternal grandad's family tree right now, huuuuge families and someone has linked it up going centuries back with very few blanks)
"Edward" and "Richard" turn up over and over again in my paternal line over 375 years - early long-ago cousins bearing these names plus the same surname make research very confusing, as they all lived in the same general area back in colonial Virginia. "Richard" also shows up a lot in my maternal line - g-g-grandfather, first cousin, first cousin once removed, over a 200 year spread.
Loads of Marys in all of my lines - all of my four g-grandmothers were named "Mary", and I had a maternal aunt whose (unused) first name was Mary. A couple of young maternal first cousins twice-removed are Mary and (middle name) Marie now, so the name has endured.
On the other side of the family, my father's grandmother, aunt, first cousin, and my own first cousin include "Mary" as part of their names. There are also several "Sallys" and "Sallies", first used as a nickname for "Sarah", but now a given name dating back to the early 1800s.
"Jemima" turns up repeatedly in my paternal grandmother's line - well before the pancake lady came into view. Odd early given paternal names include "Purify" and "Saluda". None of these in current use, thankfully - the Saluda River is beautiful, but it's a strange name for a child, and while I rather like "Jemima", the pancake association is too overwhelming. "Purify"?? No way.
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