Table 3 Percentage of births registered with a paternal byname

From: Cross-cultural structures of personal name systems reflect general communicative principles

 

Birth Year

East

West

1

up to 1730

72%

29%

2

1730–1780

67%

37%

3

1780–1830

71%

45%

4

1830–1880

81%

57%

5

post–1880

94%

79%

  1. Patronymic-byname use in the East starts high and increases from 72% to 94% in the period 1700–1900. By contrast, this increase is much sharper in the West, where it is 29% at the beginning of this period and increases to 79% by its end.
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