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Why Everyone in the Middle Ages Seemed to Have the Same Name
Many people in the Middle Ages shared the same few names—think Margaret, Thomas, or Henry. But why were these names so popular? From saints to family tradition, medieval naming followed patterns that reveal a lot about the culture and beliefs of the time.
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"but chosen names are hard, I still know you as [deadname]"
When people find out we have a deadname by seeing it ONCE they forever file it as our only name and never call us by any chosen name ever again even after knowing us by our chosen names first
Hi! I'm adopting a kitten this year, and I've been looking for a name that starts with T.
It's so difficult to find a male name in middle egyptian though, since most of the ones I found are based on the feminine demonstrative pronouns tn and t3...
Could you help me, or point me towards a source I could use ? Thanks in avance.
anx wDA snb
I'd advise to check Ranke's Personennamen, available for download as a PDF here. On page 377, the names beginning with ti- start, which is where you'll find a number of masculine names in addition to all the female ones starting with t3!
Some of the “most-changey” American baby names gender-wise: Meredith, Lacey, Kim and Allison.
From Gender Shifts In American Baby Names, blog post on The Life of Words, 24.04.18. Blog post contains more.
The Quest for Gender-Neutrality (in personal names)
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The Linguistic Society of America has guidelines for inclusive language, including what one might consider when writing example sentences:
“The use of ‘gender-neutral’ names such as Chris, Dana, Kim, Lee, and Pat can help avoid stereotyping either males or females.”
But how neutral are these names, really? It probably depends, and it probably changes over time. Meredith used to be “a boy’s name”, but I don’t know of any men named Meredith these days, and I know a lot of women named Meredith.
To choose the most gender-neutral name, one has to know what names are out there, when they were being used, and how their use is distributed. Truly, parents don’t really know the gender of their child at birth (and let’s not even get into sex), but assignments are often made, and names are chosen and registered... and in this database, only “male” and “female” categories were available.
From a list of baby names registered in England and Wales from 1996 to 2000, I was able to pull together the graph below (see the top picture for high-res). The x-axis (horizontal) is the number of male-designated babies who were registered, and the y-axis (vertical) is the number of female-designated babies who were registered. The black diagonal line (x=y) shows where the number of female and male babies are equal. So, if 100 female babies were given the name “Lee” and 100 male babies were given the name “Lee” during this time frame, the name “Lee” would appear directly over the black line. The color of the name indicates how many total babies (of any designation) were given the name.
Jordan is by far the most common name over all, although Ashleigh and Courtney were given to more female-designated babies (though, note that Ashley is overlapping Tyler on the male-biased side). The names that are optimally the most “neutral” and popular seem to by Morgan (about 1403 per year) and Taylor (909). Cody (174) and Devon (164) are also very neutral, but they are much rarer. Rio (114) and Mackenzie (122) are neutral as well, but they are super-rare because they aren’t attested ever year. The less common a name is, the less likely someone is to have met people of any gender who have that name. If you’ve only ever met a Jamie who is a girl, you might think it’s a girl’s name, even though it’s pretty far to the right in the “male-biased” space.
So if you have to write an example sentence and you want to choose a name that doesn’t evoke any particular gender, I’d recommend choosing Taylor or Morgan, which are optimally balanced and common.
(At least, for people who are 16 to 21 years old living in England and Wales!)
Digital Ressources: PNM Database
An online database of ancient Egyptian personal names, titles, and persons from the Middle Kingdom.
The database, hosted at the university of Mainz, contains personal names from the Middle Kingdom as well as titles, variations in spelling, sources, cross-references to Ranke... Unlike Ranke, the database is available in English. Personally, I really like the option to look at all the people linked to a single object, e.g. a stela. In terms of research, the bibliographical information is a gold mine.
SHADES OF MEANING ASSOCIATED WITH PERSONAL NAMES AND NAMING IN IGALA
SHADES OF MEANING ASSOCIATED WITH PERSONAL NAMES AND NAMING IN IGALA
SHADES OF MEANING ASSOCIATED WITH PERSONAL NAMES AND NAMING IN IGALA
Abstract:
The purpose of the research is to examine the shades of meaning that are associated with names and naming in Igala. The study examinened the various circumstances attached to the meaning of names in Igala, and the peculiar features that differentiate the practice from those of other Nigerian languages. The study looked…
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