It's obvious that neckbeards were more popular in the 1800s. But can we quantify just how common they were? To take a first stab at this, I had a look through the vintage photos sold by
Tiddalik's Vintage Photography. These include many photos of men from Victorian Britain. I simply counted the total number of men depicted in the photos, and then counted the number of men wearing neckbeards. At the time of writing, the numbers are:
Number of men: 200
Number of men with neckbeards: 19
That's quite remarkable: nearly 10% of the men shown in these photos have neckbeards! Of course, this was not a random sample of British Victorian men; presumably, most of these men will have been fairly rich. Still, it suggests that the neckbeard was once among the most popular beard styles, at least among certain groups of men.
Some good neckbeards from the Tiddalik archives:
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