Despre antroponimele Ana, Ion şi Maria
About the Anthroponyms Ana, Ion and Maria

Summary/Abstract: The research about personal names of the Romanians became a more and more intensive occupation of linguists at the beginning of the 20th century, but two attempts of a regional synthesis were published only in the fourth decade of that century; however, these attempts did not set the foundations for the hagiographic approach nor for the valid principles in onomastics. Almost all studies in the field of toponymy and anthroponymy in the Romanian professional literature investigate the concrete material from the area of onomastics which was collected from various old documents or directly, in the polls. In fact, one should mention that the number of professional works in this area is not large and that, when it comes to the Romanian language in the region of Voivodina, a very small number of researches has been carried out. Having all that in mind, we decided to investigate personal names in the Romanian villages in the territory of Central Banat – Ecica, Iancaid, Sărcia, Torac, Uzdin. The material was collected from the registers of births and the analysis of all anthroponyms appearing in the period from 1900 to 2000 was carried out. The goal of the research was to establish which names were popular in the past, if they appear today and to which extent, which are the most popular names today, as well as to establish their evolution and origin. According to the results, the most popular and adored personal names are Ana, Ion and Maria. Therefore the explanations about their origin in this paper has been done.

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