FACT OF THE DAY:
Yale was named after Elihu Yale (1649-1721), a governor of the British East India Company who donated a crate of goods to the fledgling school.
And No One that I know has ever really come up with a justification for why ELIHU is no longer a popular boys name.
@Madken65 Probably the same reason a lot of Hebrew names have become unpopular: antisemitism and the fear of it.
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I think it's due to more than monosyllabic names...
Peeps no longer call me by my full name,
Kenny, Emperor for Life, DaDa.
There are tragedies all over the world now it seems.