#17 Naming Conventions: Why so many Johanns?

When our 2nd great-grandparents Johann Dollhopf and Margarethe Bär gave birth to their first baby in 1852, they didn’t consult a baby book. There weren’t any. So how did they choose? They had three boys and one girl, and all three boys were named Johann, the girl was named Sophia. What were they thinking when they gave the same name to all three sons?

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