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Demographic aspects of first names. [PDF]
Sci Data, 2018 AbstractWe introduce a list that offers information on the relation between first names and race or ethnicity. Drawing information from mortgage applications, the list includes 4,250 first names and information on their respective count and proportions across six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups.
Tzioumis K.
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Sex-biased sound symbolism in French first names [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2019 Low- and high-frequency vowels in the stressed syllable of French first names may respectively project impressions of largeness/masculinity and smallness/femininity.
Alexandre Suire +3 more
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Sex-biased sound symbolism in english-language first names. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Sexual selection has resulted in sex-based size dimorphism in many mammals, including humans. In Western societies, average to taller stature men and comparatively shorter, slimmer women have higher reproductive success and are typically considered more ...
Benjamin J Pitcher +2 more
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Socioeconomic Determinants of First Names [PDF]
Names, 2011 Modern naming practices in the Netherlands between 1982 and 2005 were studied on the basis of 1409 popular first names, divided into fourteen name groups determined by the common preferences of parents for the names involved. Socioeconomic variables such
Gerrit Bloothooft, David Onland
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Official male two-word first names in Croatia in 2011
Onomástica desde América Latina, 2022 The subject of the paper are male two-word first names registered in the population census of the Republic of Croatia conducted in 2011. Among approximately 5600 different first names with more than ten bearers registered that year we found 150 two-word
Joža Horvat
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Appellativized first names as terms of abuse
Nordisk Tidskrift för Socioonomastik, 2023 In the article, three appellativized Finnish personal names are analysed in their use as a derogatory part of communication. In support of the argumentation, two kinds of data are used: corpus data from the internet forum Suomi24 (‘Finland24’) and ...
Maria Sarhemaa
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Вопросы ономастики, 2022 The author examines the data collected during field studies of the Slovenian ethnic minority in Italy, in order to retrace the use of anthroponyms (names and surnames) formed in this region in the 20th–21st centuries.
Maria V. Yasinskaya
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Birth Order, Gender, and Naming Preferences in Contemporary Poland
Names, 2023 The paper investigates how birth order and gender jointly influence naming decisions among Polish parents. The impact of birth order on the choice of first names has been extensively documented in historical and anthropological studies worldwide, but it
Paweł Tomanek
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Name and sign: First name as a symbol of ethnic identity of Vojvodina Germans [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2014 In this paper we consider the choice of and use of first names among Vojvodina Germans at the beginning of the 21st century. Anthroponomy, the practice of choosing and using first names among the members of the German minority in Vojvodina will ...
Krel Aleksandar +1 more
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Given names of Spanish origin in the Hungarian personal name system
Onomástica desde América Latina, 2023 In the present-day Hungarian given name stock, there are probably less than a hundred names of Spanish origin, as interpreted in terms of etymology, intermediary languages and cultural sources.
Tamás Farkas
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