Osli keresztnévadásának története napjainkig
Date: 2008
Subject: keresztnév
névdivat
kettős keresztnév
névöröklés
20. sz.
Győr-Moson-Sopron megye
magyar
névdivat
kettős keresztnév
névöröklés
20. sz.
Győr-Moson-Sopron megye
magyar
Abstract:
MRS. JÓZSEF VARGA, The history of Christian-name-giving practices in the
settlement of Osli (Western Hungary) //
Christian-name-giving practices in the settlement of Osli changed greatly in many respects
during the two and a half centuries surveyed in the present paper. Until the middle of the 1960s, the
name stock was rather poor, with the exception of the period between 1845 and 1885, when popular
names changed significantly and many more Christian names came into use, reducing name
frequency (the period was first described by Ferenc Jáky, a 19th century local priest). After the 1970s
the name stock became even more rich: this period was less characterised by the earlier application of
the principle of the importance of inheriting ancestors’ names; furthermore, current nationwide
fashion trends in name-giving practices also played an important role. It was the female name stock
that changed more considerably: the monotonously repeating name forms of the early periods were
substituted by names of less frequency. Even today, however, parents are prone to choose traditional,
historical masculine names for their sons; thus boys often inherit their names. Choosing names of two
(rarely three) elements could not be demonstrated before the end of the 19th century, and after two
generations, by the end of the 20th century this phenomenon disappeared again.