Naming children after dead sibling.

[J Bux]

Was it common for later children to be named after children who had died?  It seems macabre to me, but then people in Victorian England must have had a completely different outlook to me.
I think I have come across two examples where this seems to be only explanation.
Has anyone else come across this?

[nanny jan]

Hi,

I've a few examples of this happening in my families.

Nanny Jan

[jess5athome]

I don't know if it was common practice but I have an ancestor who named a son after 2 sons who died a few years apart, the second son was named after the first one and the third after the second, all had the name Robert.

[patpat]

Yes I think it happened a lot.

[jan57]

  It  was  common   back  then ,  I've   found  many   instances of  this    in my  ancestors , and  on  census   in  general  when  looking  up   

[chrish53]

It was very common in the days of high infant mortality.

[Marmalady]

yep, very common

sometimes a family went through several "johns" before one finally survived to late childhood/adulthood

[avm228]

Yes, like others I have numerous examples of this in my tree.  One of my families (Essex, 1820s) had, in turn, three daughters named Rebecca, all of whom successively died young. They eventually gave up on the name Rebecca.

[J Bux]

Thanks everyone.  It is nice to know that I figured it out correctly, but dissapointing that it took me so long. Thanks again