Changes in Naming Patterns in 19th Century Estonia. Discarding the Names of Parents and Godparents

dc.contributor.authorHussar, Annika
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-12T15:53:48Z
dc.date.available2010-04-12T15:53:48Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractThere were extensive changes in names and naming patterns during the 19th century. In Estonia, in addition to other significant changes, the names chosen for children were less and less influenced by the surrounding community. In other countries, the practice of giving children their godparents’ name has been researched by Smith-Bannister (1997); Garðarsdóttir (1999); Hacker (1999); Sangoï (1999); and van Poppel, Bloothooft, Gerritzen, and Verduin (1999). Social relationships played a far bigger role in the city than in the rural areas; thus the tradition of giving children their godparents’ names was preserved better in the cities. The parents’ choice was not regulated by the Lutheran church either. In Estonia, the practice of giving children double names spread only at the end of the 19th century; thus the emergence of modern names removed the names of the parents, grandparents and godparents from usage, especially in the case of girls’ names.en
dc.identifier.citationProceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Onomastic Sciencesen
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-55014-521-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/3988
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherYork Universityen
dc.rightsThe following articles are © 2009 with the individual authors. They are made available free of charge from this page as a service to the community under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative Works license version 3.0. For full details go to http://creativecommons.org.licenses/ny-nd.3.0en
dc.subjectNaming in 19th Century Estoniaen
dc.subjectPersonal Names in Estoniaen
dc.titleChanges in Naming Patterns in 19th Century Estonia. Discarding the Names of Parents and Godparentsen
dc.title.alternativeSession Paperen
dc.typeArticleen

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