| Title: | A study on the given names of Orthodox Christians in North Karelia from the 1920s to the 1950s |
| Author: | Eija-Helena Kettunen |
| Publication: | Numele și numirea. Actele Conferinței Internaționale de Onomastică. Ediția a II-a: Onomastica din spațiul public actual, p. 548 |
| ISBN: | 978-606-543-343-4 |
| Editors: | Oliviu Felecan |
| Publisher: | Editura Mega, Editura Argonaut |
| Place: | Cluj-Napoca |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | The aim of this research is to study the name-giving tradition of Orthodox Christians in North Karelia, Finland. According to old tradition, parents should give their baby only one name, which should be based on the Bible or a canonized person’s name. The main questions refer to what kinds of changes have taken place in names and name-giving tradition and what reasons are behind them. This research deals especially with two periods, the 1920s and 1950s, because it seems that the tradition to give only one name remained till the 1920s, after which the practice of giving several names became common. However, when the evacuated Karelians settled down after the Second World War, statistics recorded a temporary increase in the number of Orthodox people with one name. |
| Key words: | onomastics, given names, Orthodox name-giving, North Karelia, Karelians |
| Language: | English |
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