The Legal Regulation of Married Name Use and Its Practice in Hungary

• Autores: Erzsébet Fercsik
• Localización: Onoma: Journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences, ISSN 0078-463X, Nº. 47, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Names and law), págs. 57-80
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In Hungary, the legal regulation of married name use started at the end of 19th century. By then, the traditional name form (Kis Jánosné) became pre-eminent among the various name forms, to function as the official name form for married women. In the following periods, the available name forms expanded, and from 2004, not only women, but men could also bear a married name. This study illustrates the linguistic and pragmatic features of women�s married name. It describes the history of the legal regulations for the available name forms at the conclusion and the dissolution of marriage, and the path from the traditional name form to double-barrelled names. By featuring earlier research and statistical data, this study will show the mutual influence that legal regulation and social practice had on each other. It will also demonstrate a few examples to show how other factors such as education and residence influences the choice for names beyond the effect of traditionalism. The growing popularity of names that keep the woman�s birth name or some element of the original name clearly reflects the social changes of women over the last fifty years.