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Probably, but with the French migration I'm mainly talking about after the conquest. Most ordinary French migrants may have just taken occupational, patronymic and English toponymic names (i.e. John of Lincoln). If you've looked at this period it's extraordinary how suddenly and quickly the English as a whole changed their names from Anglo-Saxon (i.e. Hereward) to French names (i.e. Robert, John) at the beginning of the 12th century. It obscures the French migration since suddenly all the English pretended to be French.
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True, names by themselves mean almost nothing, but the commonness of Norman names reflects their disproportionate influence and genetic success in outbreeding the general population. In the classism of England it's easily forgotten that even the modern lower classes are descended more from the medieval upper class than from the medieval peasantry and serfs. It's apparently a mathematical certainty that every English person born since around 1950 is descended from King Edward III (1312-77). It also correlates with average skulls having become more gracile since the late medieval period.
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