“…Complementing other work that leverages historical microdata to study behavior and fertility (Guinnane et al, 2006;Jaadla et al, 2020;Klüsener et al, 2019), naming is a compelling and increasingly analyzable behavior with respect to demographic change. The value of using names to understand population patterns is underscored by prior analyses of how naming relates to fertility behavior (Goldstein & Stecklov, 2021;Hacker, 1999), immigrant assimilation (Abramitzky, Boustan, & Connor, 2020;Abramitzky, Boustan, & Eriksson, 2020;Stecklov & Goldstein, 2016), mortality (Cook et al, 2016) and the use of last names to study social mobility (Clark et al, 2015;Connor, 2020). As demographers have yet to widely leverage the insight revealed in child naming, this will continue to be a verdant area for future research.…”