[email protected] wrote on 6/16/2005, 4:50 PM: > 1850-1880 there were a lot of folks named after famous people such as > George > Washington, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, Francis Marion, etc. This began in the Helm family on or right after 1800. It seems pretty uncommon after the Civil War altho there are one or two interesting exceptions. All the names mentioned are quite common, except Andrew Jackson. My family had 3 brothers with those names (two other brothers: my ancestor James Madison Helm (b 1810), and youngest brother Thomas Jefferson Helm).