ABSTRACT

The investigation of a simple behavior, child naming, can provide insights into the varying reactions of families confronted by the extraordinary war losses of the First World War. The current study analyses names given in a large cohort of French orphans born 1914–1916, constructed thanks to the linkage of civil registers with a nationwide database of soldiers who died during the War. It shows that a prenatal loss of father was associated with a strong increase in father's name transmission. The phenomenon was twice as intense in officers' offspring. Regression analysis suggests the precise timing of the father's death controlled this change in naming behavior: father's name transmission was at a maximum when the father died at the very beginning of pregnancy.

摘要

对一种简单行为的调查，即儿童命名，可以为第一次世界大战中遭受巨大战争损失所面临的家庭的各种反应提供见解。本研究分析了1914年至1916年出生的一大批法国孤儿的名字，这些名字是由于民事登记簿与战争期间死亡的士兵的全国数据库之间的联系而建立的。它表明，父亲的产前流失与父亲名字传递的强劲增长有关。这种现象是军官后代的两倍。回归分析表明，父亲去世的确切时机控制了命名行为的这种变化：当父亲在怀孕开始时去世时，父亲的名字传播就达到了最大。