2 Many published studies yield similar results; see Stewart, “Men’s Names in Plymouth and Massachusetts,” 118; Smith, “Child-naming Practices,” 541-66; Fischer, “Forenames and the Family,” 76-111.

3 Donald Lines Jacobus, “Early New England Nomenclature,” NEHGR 77 (1923), 11-12; N. I. Bowditch, Suffolk Surnames (London, 1861), 5-27, 473-79.

4 George R. Stewart, American Given Names (New York, 1979), 15; Fischer, “Forenames and the Family,” 82.