Double name (first name)

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A double name in the sense of a first name describes the combination of two first names to form a new one. With a double name, both components always belong together, so not just one of them is used as a nickname .

Notation

Double names can merge into one word (contraction, double form ), such as Annemarie / Marianne , Hannelore , Hanspeter , Karlheinz , Lieselotte . In addition, there is the spelling with a hyphen ( through coupling , hyphen name ), such as Klaus-Peter , Hans-Jürgen , Jan-Heinrich .
These names can generally only be abbreviated in combination, i.e. Hanspeter as "H.", Hans-Peter as "H.-P." The emphasis of the name can be on one of the two components in all variants.

There are also written double name also separately: This follows the Romanesque Usance in Holy whose second name, even if there is a examples or last name is to put as a first name. The double name is inextricably linked to this saint or an adoration (and then also has a special name day ). At most, the second part of the name becomes independent here. Examples are Maria Magdalena (Maria from Magdala, from it Magdalena ), Johann Baptist (John the Baptist), Maria Rosaria (Mary of the Rosary, including Rosa ), Maria Viktoria ( Mary of Victory ), Franz Xaver (after St.  Francisco de Xavier y Jassu : Franz, Herr von Javier and Jassu near Pamplona, ​​from there Xaver ) or Johann Nepomuk (after St. Johannes Nepomuk or Johannes von Pomuk, Czech: Jan Nepomucký, from there Nepomuk ). In English there is an analog formation for example in George Washington as a first name (standing name combination ). These names are used in the Baroque period to (epoch of Mehrnamigkeit ), and it is common to two or even more names than first name to be used - as the Empress Maria Theresa . Because of the common names in the families - for example, nine of the ten daughters of the Empress were also called Maria in the first name - the second part of the name becomes an independent name.
In addition, there are also modern interconnections or fusions, such as Stella -Maria / Marie- Estelle to Maria Meeresstern .

distribution

In German, the fused forms appeared at the end of the 19th century, the coupled forms were especially popular in the 1930s to 1950s.

Differentiation from other name formations

While the two individual names remain intact in a double name, falling at a joining part of one or two output name away. Coincidences were popular in East Frisia in the 19th century .

Even the old two-stemmed first names such as Diethelm or Hildegard are not viewed as double names.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kunze: dtv-Atlas onenology. , Section Assigning Multiple First Names , p. 49
  2. ^ Konrad Kunze: dtv-Atlas onenology. First and last names in the German-speaking area. Munich 1998, p. 53; see also Renata Cibulková: The German first names - overview of the development tendencies of naming from the Middle Ages to the present. Brno 2010.
  3. ↑ Manno Peters Tammena, naming in Ostfriesland, SKN Soltau-Kurier-Norden; 1st, edition 2008, ISBN 9783939870593 , page 18 ff.