Names and naming patterns in England, 1538-1700

Names and naming patterns in England, 1538-1700 / Scott Smith-Bannister.

This work contains the results of an investigation of naming practices in early modern England. It sets out to show which names were most commonly used, how children came to be given these names, why they were named after parents, siblings, or saints, and how social status affected naming patterns.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith-Bannister, Scott
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1997.
Series:Oxford historical monographs.
Subjects:
1500-1699
Names, Personal > England > History > 16th century.
Names, Personal > England > History > 17th century.
Manners and customs.
Names, Personal.
Related Historical Sciences.
History & Archaeology.
Genealogy.
England > Social life and customs > 16th century.
England > Social life and customs > 17th century.
England.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Name-sharing practices
  • Names and social status
  • English personal names
  • appendices: A.A test to measure the degree of standardization in the ordering of the most common names
  • B. The measurement of the degree of association between two lists of personal names: an adaptation of Spearman's rank-order correlation
  • C. The fifty most common names in forty parishes in each decade
  • D. The standard forms of alternative spellings of names.

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