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Guild of One-Name Studies

One-name studies, Genealogy

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    • 2,556 members
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    • 8,271 surnames

Countries: D

Abbreviations

ClN = clan name NN =Nickname f=father’s
DayN =Day Name PlN=Placename gf=grandfather’s
FamN= Family Name PT = patronymic m=mother’s
GN = Given name SN = Surname  
IN = Incidental name TN= Tribal name  
MN=Middle name wPN = Western Personal Name  
Country Languages Structure & (Example)
Ethnic groups-Types – History
Women (and on marriage)
Children Society
Terms of Address,
Further reading, Notes
Denmark   GN + SN

Christian Nielsen Lise Lotte Møller

SN adoption;

1526- Royal encouragement for nobility to take SNs

1828/1858- directives requiring adoption of hereditary SNs

1904 Name Law – allowing change of SN (if too popular)

A 1970’s list analysis revealed 85,000 different surnames, with 64% of the population covered by the top 50 surnames

70% of Danes have patroymic surnames: 20% of all Danes are called Jensen, Nielsen or Hansen

Top 100 SNs = 79 PTs, est = occupational, topographical and nicknames

Also German SNs

Few toponymic; placename elements = -borg, -by, -gaard, -rup, -sted

Leading surnames: Jensen, Nielsen, Hansen, Pedersen, Andersen, Christensen, Larsen, Sørensen, Rasmussen, Jørgensen, Petersen, Madsen, Kristensen, Olsen, Thomsen, Christiansen, Poulsen, Johansen, Knudsen, Mortensen

Tendency for women to retain maiden name, or to hyphenate maiden name: husband’s name

Nb; a woman may adopt her father or husband’s GN as a middle (not SN) of their own e.g.

Henny Harald Hansen

Mr = herr, Mrs= fru Miss= froken

Abbrev in correspondence to hr, fru, and fruk.

•Hornby (1951) ‘Danske navne’

•Kristiansen (1984) ‘Danske ogenavne’

•Meldgaard (1983) ‘ Modern dansk personnavnesnik : fornavne, mellemnavne, slaegtsnavne’ SudAnthroScan 1

•Meldgaard (1990) ‘Studier i københavnske fornavne 1650-1950’ Isbn. – 8774216597

[Copenhagen stats]

•Søndergaard (1990) ‘Computer databank of Danish names’ Names 38

•Søndergaard (2000) ‘Danske for- og efternavne’

•Degn (1998-9) ‘The fixation of Danish patronymics in the 19th Century and the law’ Onoma 34

– Faroes Islands     In 1992, Denmark ceded to the Faroese, the right to regulate their own names (Only 2 forenames, and patronyms and metronyms re-introduced) Mr = harra Mrs = frü Miss= frøken

•Johansson (2002) ‘Aspects of the development of Faeroese personal names during 1000 years’ Onoma 37

Djibouti French Use all names Maiden name: + all of Husbands names  
Dominica

       
Dominican Republic Spanish GN: + fFamN + mFamN

FamN examples: Delmonte

   
Dubai   Arabic naming system

GN + fPN +

Are some surnames,derived from tribes Eg desc of ancestors, tribal name or place.

The use of Al signifies ‘tribe of’

Women retain their own names on marriage Mr= Sayid, Mrs + Sayeda, Miss = Anissa

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