Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/y26kec41v9
PERSONAL NAMES IN THE REGISTERS OF BAPTISMS OF KNEGINEC PARISH FROM 1789 TO 1900
Marko Vitez
orcid.org/0000-0001-8137-7368
; Osnovna škola Kneginec Gornji; Srednja strukovna škola Varaždin
Abstract
In this article, the author analyzes personal names of the parish of Kneginec
from its foundation 1789 to 1900, based on available registers of baptisms.
Determines the fund and the number of male and female names separately
and tries to determine the motivation for choosing individual names. Points to
the importance of the diversity of the name fund of a rural parish community.
He also listed the most numerous personal names and hypocoristic forms.
As a contribution to the article, author presents two tables which contains
all recorded personal names of the parish (and their derivatives) grouped by
gender, alphabetically sorted with the year of their first mention and their
relative shares.
Keywords
personal names; registers of baptisms; Kneginec; 19th century.
Hrčak ID:
246625
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2020.
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