The names given to girls at baptism in the Parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Częstochowa in the years 1950–1955

Abstract

The subject of this article is female names given at Baptism in the parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Czestochowa between 1950 and 1955. The aim is to establish the repertoire of names chosen for nomination and to indicate those most frequently given at Baptism. The names of girls and their mothers were taken into account, making it possible to establish whether a name is inherited from a parent. The research material subjected to quantitative and qualitative analysis was compared with data from the years 1950–1955 included in the “Dictionary of names contemporary in Poland used”, compiled by Kazimierz Rymut. Detailed observation also made it possible to determine whether the studied anthroponomastycon contains rare, atypical names, which stand out in some way against the background of the whole studied collection.