My goodness! I've set loose a monster here. Wonderful work, ladies and gentlemen.

Now let me explain what I was after in this thread. I was not after names which ONLY are found in the British Isles. No indeed. I was not necessarily after names which are very common in the British Isles either. I was simply after names which are MORE common in the British Isles than they are in most other places, particularly North America.....names which, when heard by a North American, immediately suggest "someone from the British Isles". That's it, period.

So, "Lester", for instance may not be all that common a name in England, but I suggest that it still sounds more like an English name than it does like an American name.

You follow?

We Canadians, by the way, had a prime minister named Lester Pearson, but it's a pretty uncommon name in Canada.

Here are some typically American names:

Tex
Hank
Zeke
Billy Bob
Billy Joe
Thelma Mae
Daisy Mae
Emmy Lou
Wyatt
Jake
Elvis
Alvin
Maizy
Mavis
Blanche

(Note the popularity of the rustic approach for male names...the USA has always been besotted with all forms of frontier primitivism and cowboy mythology, plus a healthy dose of Southern romanticism for female names a la courtin' Daisy Mae neath the Magnolia blossoms, and all that...) ;-)