Search results for "naming practices"

An inherited name as the foundation of a person's identity: How the memory of a dead person lived on in the names of his or her descendants

2012

A personal name has always played a central role in the formation of an individual’s identity. In addition to the surname, the forename also defined his or her place within the family community, which for most people was the most important target in the identification process, especially in the early modern period. The identities of the persons in rural families were also to a great extent based on personal names inherited from forebears and the images thus created. In this article, I examine to what extent the naming practices of the population in the hinterland Finnish countryside and the identities created by them were connected with ancestors. The study spans a quite long period, from t…

Namngivningspraxis och attityder: val av kungliga och kejserliga förnamn hos den finskspråkiga allmogen efter år 1809.

2009