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oioioifuckingoi t1_iw1e27g wrote

Reply to comment by Content_Flamingo_583 in The effect of the First World War on names, in France [OC] by bjco

The war started on June 28. This data starts in August/September. In less than a month, in the beginning of August to the beginning of September, France suffered over 300,000 casualties in the Battle of the Frontiers. It is commonly misunderstood that people thought this was going to be a quick and bloodless affair, especially for the French. It lasted less than a month.

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platitood t1_iw1ej70 wrote

Where “it” was the misconception. Not the war. :)

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lenzflare t1_iw1t4fz wrote

"And all the warring countries lived happily ever after...."

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RedditSuggestion1234 t1_iw21rsm wrote

>The war started on June 28

That's the day Gavrilo Princip killed prince Ferdinand, the war started in August

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WaerI t1_iw1wph4 wrote

While its not surprising to see an immediate increase, it is strange that it would increase so sharply and then stop. As you say over the few months after the war began the casualties increased significantly so you would expect the rise here to increase constantly over those months to some degree. There was certainly space for it to do so as the percentage never really maxes out (I would say the max is below 100% given many family's will already have sons named after the father but still). There could have been some national push towards naming children for there fathers over one specific week but I think its more likely that there is some irregularity in how the data was collected which seems likely in war time.

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fail-deadly- t1_iw2b31m wrote

France had a single 24 hour period in August 1914 where it had more than 25,000 troops killed, and it only had a population of 41 million.

I mean Russia seems to be absolutely pissing away Soldiers lives in its current war, but there doesn’t seem to be anything close to that day’s losses, and Russia has a population of more than 140 million people.

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