Sorry, I failed to give the complete citation for the volume in which appear two of the four sources I named. Here it is: Robert M. Taylor Jr. and Ralph S. Crandall, eds., _Generations and Change: Genealogical Perspectives in Social History_ (Macon, 1986). << Here are several authoritative sources: Daniel Scott Smith, "Child-Naming Practices, Kinship Ties, and Change in Family Attitudes in Hingham, Massachusetts, 1641 to 1880," _The Journal of Social History_ 18(1985):541-66; David Hackett Fischer, "Forenames and the Family in New England: An Exercise in Historical Onomastics," in _Generations and Change: Genealogical Perspectives in Social History_ (Macon, 1986), 215-41; Darrett B. Rutman and Anita H. Rutman, "'In Nomine Avi': Child-Naming Patterns in a Chesapeake County, 1650-1750," in _Generations and Change_, 243-65; Gloria L. Main, "Naming Children in Early New England," _Journal of Interdisciplinary History_ 27(1996):1-27. >> Gene Z.