Personal Names Originating from Literature or Motion Picture in the Hungarian Name Stock – A Historical Survey

• Autores: Mariann Slíz
• Localización: ‘Names and Their Environment’: Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 25-29 August 2014 / Carole Hough (ed. lit.), Daria Izdebska (ed. lit.), 2016, ISBN 978-0-85261-947-6, págs. 247-254
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The paper introduces a special segment of the real Hungarian name stock: personal names originating from literature or films. The 13th-15th centuries can be regarded as the first period of this phenomenon when some members of the higher classes named their children after the heroes of chivalric literature, e.g. Tristan, Roland. These names never became frequent, and disappeared after the 15th century. The second period in the history of names of literary origin was the 19th century, the time of Romanticism in Hungarian literature, when writers focused on the history of Hungary. Additionally, this was the period of the birth of Hungarian novels. Due to this, new literary names were created in large amounts; some of them became a part of the real first name stock and have become popular. There are some family names that also originated from or became frequent thanks to a novel (e.g. Kárpáthy, Szentirmay). They became a part of the family name stock through official name changes. The third period started in the second half of the 20th century: nowadays these fictional names are mostly traceable to films. The paper reveals the sociocultural-historical background of the spread of these names in these different periods.