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Sooperfreak t1_iw1t0vj wrote

Reply to comment by Content_Flamingo_583 in The effect of the First World War on names, in France [OC] by bjco

The only other difference I can think of is that once the men left for war there was an almost instant change to mothers being solely responsible for naming their children.

Maybe it’s simply that a mother is more likely to name a child after her husband than a fathers is to name a child after himself.

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Viend t1_iw1xv7f wrote

>Maybe it’s simply that a mother is more likely to name a child after her husband than a fathers is to name a child after himself.

I highly doubt this, but the fact that there is a good chance daddy's dead makes it much more plausible.

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abandoningeden t1_iw2aklz wrote

Maybe a bunch of soon to be dads died and they got named after them

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