Foreigners in the Bulgarian Anthroponymic System: Non-traditional Variants of Traditional Given Names?
Nowadays, a very fashionable trend can be observed for parents to choose so-called international names for their newborn children. This is done in the hope that their descendants will avoid challenges in the future if they wish to settle down in a foreign country. Actually, this tendency is widely p...
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| author | Petkova, Gergana |
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| description | Nowadays, a very fashionable trend can be observed for parents to choose so-called international names for their newborn children. This is done in the hope that their descendants will avoid challenges in the future if they wish to settle down in a foreign country. Actually, this tendency is widely practiced not only by Bulgarians but also by all Europeans. It is the reason why most parents in Bulgaria prefer universal, atypical variants of given names perceived as traditional for our onomasticon by the common people. Their motivation is to make sure that the children will have no difficulties adapting to an external culture, where appropriate. The present text aims to study that tendency in the official statistical data for a 10-year period (2008–2018). The objective is to compare the findings for Sofia – the capital of Bulgaria, with those observed in the smaller town of Veliko Tarnovo; this is due to the fact that every new fashion starts in the largest city of the country while in smaller settlements the name-giving tradition is generally more conservative. The research is part of the “Personal Names in Bulgaria in the Beginning of 21st Century” project developed by scholars from the Institute for Bulgarian Language, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Onomastic Section. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1598582025-05-19T12:41:09Z Foreigners in the Bulgarian Anthroponymic System: Non-traditional Variants of Traditional Given Names? Petkova, Gergana Bulgarian traditional forenames foreign variants thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences Nowadays, a very fashionable trend can be observed for parents to choose so-called international names for their newborn children. This is done in the hope that their descendants will avoid challenges in the future if they wish to settle down in a foreign country. Actually, this tendency is widely practiced not only by Bulgarians but also by all Europeans. It is the reason why most parents in Bulgaria prefer universal, atypical variants of given names perceived as traditional for our onomasticon by the common people. Their motivation is to make sure that the children will have no difficulties adapting to an external culture, where appropriate. The present text aims to study that tendency in the official statistical data for a 10-year period (2008–2018). The objective is to compare the findings for Sofia – the capital of Bulgaria, with those observed in the smaller town of Veliko Tarnovo; this is due to the fact that every new fashion starts in the largest city of the country while in smaller settlements the name-giving tradition is generally more conservative. The research is part of the “Personal Names in Bulgaria in the Beginning of 21st Century” project developed by scholars from the Institute for Bulgarian Language, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Onomastic Section. Published 2025-05-19T12:41:06Z 2025-05-19T12:41:06Z 2023-12-12 chapter 9788323374466 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159858 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://wuj.pl/ksiazka/onomastics-in-interaction-with-other-branches-of-science-volume-2#otwarty-dostep https://wuj.pl/foreigners-in-the-bulgarian-anthroponymic-system-non-traditional-variants-of-traditional-given-names Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Onomastics in Interaction With Other Branches of Science. Volume 2. Anthroponomastics 10.4467/K7446.46/22.23.17286 10.4467/K7446.46/22.23.17286 b56389e6-bd6e-43b9-abc7-9af91c5afc6b e93deae3-b5ec-4abe-b483-2a536826b783 9788323374466 371-387 open access |
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| title | Foreigners in the Bulgarian Anthroponymic System: Non-traditional Variants of Traditional Given Names? |
| title_full | Foreigners in the Bulgarian Anthroponymic System: Non-traditional Variants of Traditional Given Names? |
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| title_short | Foreigners in the Bulgarian Anthroponymic System: Non-traditional Variants of Traditional Given Names? |
| title_sort | foreigners in the bulgarian anthroponymic system non traditional variants of traditional given names |
| topic | Bulgarian traditional forenames foreign variants thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences |
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