Date:  Thu, 20 Oct 1994 08:58:38 EDT

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: Re: names question



On the decline of the Presidential naming practice: my guess would be that

there was a huge fall-off between the set of babies who were middle-named

"Roosevelt" into the 1940's and those who were middle-named "Truman" or any

subsequent such name. But I imagine a graph would prove very uneven, with

considerably more "Roosevelt"s (in Teddy's day) and perhaps "Wilson"s than,

say "Taft"s or "Hoover"s. Just an uneducated guess, of course.



  Larry