Names and naming patterns in England, 1538-1700
Results of the first large-scale quantitative investigation of naming practices in early modern England
Print Book, English, 1997
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford [England], New York, 1997
History
xiii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780198206637, 0198206631
37722991
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