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Downton Abbey names, upstairs and down
42 names · 18 girls · 24 boys · records through 2025
The series is set between 1912 and 1926, which places its entire cast list at exactly the vintage the current revival keeps reaching for — this is a hundred-year-old name book with a television budget.
This guide has 42 names: 18 girl names and 24 boy names. A curated set of Downton Abbey character names matched against the latest US records; only names in real use appear. Built from US Social Security birth records through 2025. Tap + beside any name to keep it on your shortlist as you read.
Before the names
The two halves of the house name differently, and it shows. Upstairs runs to Violet, Cora, Edith and Sybil; downstairs to Daisy, Anna, Elsie and Beryl — and it is the downstairs list that has climbed hardest since.
Every name below is verified in current American records with its live rank.
Girl names
18 names
Boy names
24 names
- Henry#5 today
- James#6 today
- William#9 today
- John#23 today
- Joseph#29 today
- Matthew#32 today
- Thomas#34 today
- Charles#48 today
- Andrew#73 today
- Robert#92 today
- Carson#124 today
- George#126 today
- Peter#187 today
- Edward#224 today
- Richard#234 today
- Patrick#235 today
- Atticus#281 today
- Archie#301 today
- Tony#783 today
- Alfred#840 today
- Harold#991 today
- Larry#1084 today
- Branson#1222 today
- Reginald#1281 today
Every rank and count here is published by the US Social Security Administration and refreshed each year when the new figures land. The method is stated at the top of this page.
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