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Originally Posted by archibalduk

The North American names from OOTP would be a good starting point for the English names. I guess it'd be just a case of taking out the non-English names from the list.

In case it is of any help, I have attached a spreadsheet of British players broken down by nationality (i.e. England, Scotland, etc). This covers players in the EIHL, EPL and NIHL-1. Maybe this might be useful to anybody who looks at the British names (please note that I don't have any names from the Rep of Ire - hence that worksheet is blank).

Some other name resources:

SCOTLAND
- Common male Scottish forenames: Scottish First Names: Scots names -Women
- Common Scottish surnames: Appendix:Scottish surnames - Wiktionary
- Top 100 Scottish surnames (2001 Scottish census): http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files...es_tablea1.pdf
- Top 300 Scottish surnames (1901 Scottish census): http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files...es_tablea5.pdf

ENGLAND & WALES
- Top 100 English male baby names & top 100 Welsh baby names (2011 census - see Table 2 for England and Table 3 for Wales - Table 6 has a list of the top 6083 boys names for England and Wales and lists their frequency): http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/vsob1/...boys--2011.xls
- Common English & Welsh surnames: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Append...land_and_Wales)

OTHER
- Common surnames for various other countries: Category:Surname appendices - Wiktionary

My Scottish ancestors must have all come over and taken their names with them. I see the Gardiners and Orrs in 1901 but not in the recent list! At least the Russells are still around.