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Fun fact: up until fairly recently, babies weren't often named until at least their second birthday. Hence, headstones with "baby", "junior", etc. littering pioneer graveyards and similar.
That kinda makes sense. Giving a name before knowing how the childs behaviour, temperament or similar is rather unintuitive. Also probably makes the loss a bit less hard if the child dies before it's at least a year old, which is probably the root cause for that costume.
It wasn't because of a hesitance to misname them. It was purely because of mortality rates. I appreciate your optimism, though. 🥹