A review of the naming profile of the inhabitants of Toledo, Paraná: traditional or innovative?

Abstract

 Anthroponyms can be considered, for many, the maximum identity of an individual. Moreover, it is undeniable that, like other factors, people's names are an integral part of the culture of a place, since they reveal the beliefs, desires, and preferences of the named individuals. Thus, the objective of this study is to compare the results of an anthroponomastic survey conducted in the city of Toledo – Parana State - Brazil in 2013 (GRESPAN, 2013), which traced the inhabitants' naming profile from the records between 1954 and 2004, and the data collected in the civil registry of those registered in January 2018 in the same city. It is worth considering that only the names of the subjects will be analyzed. It was sought to answer the following research questions: did the naming phenomena found in the 2013 survey continue to occur in 2018? Do the names considered traditional until 2004 remain in the records 14 years later? Which names registered in 2018 are most repeated? This work is based on the Onomastics, more precisely in the Anthroponomastics, from which postulate Dick (1992) and LópezFranco (2010). To make it feasible, in addition to the data from the 2013 survey, the names of those registered in 2018 were registered at the Civil Registry Office of Toledo, totaling 164 names until January 26th. Of these, 87 are male, 76 female and 1 could not have the gender identified because it is an innovative name. It should be noted that the names of the nominees were not allowed - unlike the 2013 research - and therefore questions that were addressed in the first survey will not be considered here, such as, for example, the motivation to choose a homage to a family member. In addition, the corpus, quantitatively, is not comparable to the initial study, which contributes so that only the analysis of the names is done at the moment. The initial hypothesis is that the choice for religious motivation remains outstanding among subjects in Toledo, since a report published in a city newspaper on April 3, 2016, revealed that the names David and Maria were the most registered in 2015 in the city registry office. These data are in agreement with Grespan's (2013) research, which also recorded Maria as the most frequent name in the analyzed corpus.