what’s in a name ?. introduction the topicality of the work is an increased interest to the...

WHAT’S IN A NAME ?

Introduction The topicality of the work is an increased interest to the problem of choosing a name.

The hypothesis: Names go in and out of favor as time goes by.

The purpose of the work is to learn the history of

Russian,Tatar and Bashkir names and reveal their

popularity during the last years of the 20th century and

nowadays.

The tasks: to find out the popularity of the names and their stability;

to study popular and rare names in the past and present;

to learn the meanings and origins of the names;

to analyse the survey results.

The object of the research:

the children’s names

The subject of the research :

the history, meanings and origins of the names

Research methods:

- the study and the analysis of literary sources

- the collection and interpretation of data

The history of the names

The history of Russian names

Old Russian names

Names during Pagan times

Names after the

Great October

Revolution

Names in the 17-19th

centuriesNames from

the 11th century

Names in the 18-

19th centuries

The history of Tatar names

Names in the Middle

Ages

Names after

adoption of the Islam Latin

names

Names in the end of the 19t century and the beginning of the

20th century

Names after the Great October Revolution

The history of Bashkir names

Old names

Names after the

Islam adoption

Names from the Bible

Names after the Great October Revolution

The meanings and origins of the names

Old Slavic Turkic

Arabic

Greek

Roman

Persian

German Hebrew

Denis ( Turkic)

Azaliya ( Greek)

Dinar ( Arabic)

Arslan ( Bashkir)

Alsu ( Bashkir)

Almaz ( Arabic)

Aigul (Persian)

Ilgiz• ( Bashkir)

Violetta ( Roman)

The study of the names

353 99

1995-2004

2005-2011451

259 boys

192 girls

155 names

128 names

1995-2000

121boys 75 girls

Vladislav ( 6) Victoriya (4)

Denis ( 5) Diana (4) Aidar ( 5) Alina ( 3) Ruslan (5) Anastasiya ( 3) Rustam (5) Regina (3) Dinar ( 5) Irina ( 3) Nikita ( 5) Kseniya (3)

2000-2005

• Maksim (4) Anastasiya (5)• Linar (4) Alina (3)• Danil (4) Anna (3)• Radmir (3) Dariya (3)

85 boys 71 girls

2006-2011

Timur (5) Polina (5) Roman (5) Anna (3) Kirill (3) Arina (3) Vladislav (3) Anastasiya (3)

52 boys 46 girls

1995-2011

The most popular names

Anastasiya (11)

Roman (10)

Vladislav (10)

Denis (9)

Rare names

Male names Female

names

20%25%

The percentage of rare names

Names

1995-2000

2000-2005

2006-2011

male 48% 68% 74%female 70% 68% 63%

Conclusion

“Remember that a person’s name is the sweetest and most important sound in any language”

Dale Carnegie