Christening Names in Cenad
Christening Names in Cenad

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article deals with the Christening names of Orthodox Romanians from the town of Cenad, Romania. The Study was done based on documents related to christening between 1976-1903 and 2011-2013. In Christening names in the registers of religious cults in Cenad have changed, in time, based on various influences, adaptations, and spellings. Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the most dominant names were those of Biblical influence, regardless of the child’s nationality. After 1989 however, christening names specific to other regions started to emerge because of the influence of mass media, the freedom to travel, the freedom to marry foreign citizens, but also because of the influence of new inhabitants of Cenad who originated elsewhere. While Biblical names used to be dominant, they now entered the minority sphere.

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