Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 14-15 (1969-70) (Pécs, 1974)

Néprajztudomány - Csalog, Zs.–Mándoki, L.: Phenomen of the Fashion in the Hungarian Rural Christian Namint. (Ethnolinguistical Study)

FASHION IN THE HUNGARIAN RURAL CHRISTIAN NAMING 323 Graph 2. (as well as the non delineated Ilona (Helen) too) becomes „fashionname again, the number of Julianna and Mária are surprisingly prominent in the meantime. We should like to remark that we have to strive noUas much to the concrete explanation of a certain fashion name, naming fashion (as it was done by S. Zs. Karácsony) it is more interesting to examine the entirety of the fact, the name fashion itself, to take the starting point of the increase of the single names. Working up |he centuries old material of the Christian naming of a peasant community (village) on a graph, we find the continual and intense changeability in the ratio of share of the single Christian names. The customs of naming act as retarders in the historical changes: the immortalization of the names of parents and ancestors, the manifested relationship with not genuine relatives, with „god-parents" by taking over their names as well as the cultic relations of the single Christian names. Although these facts themselves are exposed to historical changes (we shall come back to that later) yet they are exerting their influence against the free namechoosing, the predominance of the momentary intentions. Test were made to the exact summing of these factors. Let us see the illustrations showing the cultic relations of Christian name as an example: the datum of christening of all György (Georg) respectively Mihály (Michael) in Visonta at the second half of the XIX. century was represented graphically by us. In both cases are striking the close alignment with the name-day. It is to be noted that the two most extrem examples were choosen out of the material of Visonta, all the other Christian names of this