Resumo de What Is In A Name?

What is in a Name? Part-I

Khurshid Alam

?What is in a name?? writes William Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare was of the view that there is nothing in a name for a rose is a rose by whatever name it is known. But he was hardly right in this respect; perhaps he had little knowledge of pseudonomity.
According to the science of numerology a name is a given-tab to the things or persons by which they become popular later and hence it has a special coterie to reveal than making little sense. While naming the quality of the things concerned are kept in mind. For example an animal of piggish quality is certain to be named as pig and the rose is named so but because of its worth.

When a child is born to a parent the naming process has a vital importance among the communities. The names have a great value from the viewpoints of those who give them. Naming ceremonies, as for example baptism among the Christians and ?dwej? among the Hindus, are very popular in almost all communities.

Generally parents, guardians and other elderly persons in the family are responsible for naming their progenies. It is believed that they are either emotionally or physically attached to the new born babies. They realize the pulsation of the off-springs while in physical contact with them after they are born. However in some cases they might have decided on the choice of names times ahead even before the birth of a child but the names are always a given identity in any case.
In a more scientific way a name carries a lot of information in itself. Coming across different names, typical many times, our attention is drawn to the mystery of why the names are of so varying nature. Names in different societies follow different patterns but are largely associated with religions, lingual distinction, traditions, and cultures.

Also that they do show changes by the passage of time. The Doomsday Book has a record of changes in names and the patterns followed down the centuries. It records in earlier times people usually had one-word names they got enlarged as the times passed with widening factors involved in them.

Men were named as Stone, Friday, Black, Stout or Kallu (in Hindi meaning one of black complexion) denoting their identical figures. Adapting to the names of plural number is reasoned since people became conscious of themselves?their associations or when class consciousness grew among the people.

They added prefixes or suffixes to their first names signifying such class associations. The Doomsday Book records such a name among many as ?Ralph Tailgebe?. Here ?Ralph? is the first-name denoting the individual self and ?tailor? means to cut in French whereas ?bose? stands for wood. Thus the complete name would stand as Ralph the wood cutter or Ralph Tailgebe.

Consciousness of physical statures and association of profession are regarded the earlier factors for the enlarged names. Moreover once a suffix or a prefix distinguished a person?s profession the progenies carried it down the generations and slowly it became a caste identifying pattern in some societies. In names such as Vivek Sharma, Rakesh Yadav, Ravi Thakur, Sameer Haldar, Bablu Srivastava and Parvin Ahir the second-names or the last names denote closed class or caste associations.

In some societies people would prefer to be associated with their lineage. The names Robert Geraldson or Robert the son of Gerald, Adu-bin-Quasem or Quasem the son of Abu and Ramaswami Krishnan Iyer Narayanan or Ramaswami the son of Krishnan are good examples of this custom.

Names reveal the religions of the individuals. For example, Arun Kumar, Akhilesh Tripathi and Rupesh Gupta clearly indicate they are the Hindu fellows, likewise Ali Mohmmad, Asif Iqbal, and Saba Parveen are the Muslim names and Amanda Fox, John Abraham and Marry Anne are the Christian names. Some people like to give names from mythology and epics. Names such as Gayatri, Marry, Zeus and Cynthia are such examples from different religions.

Names are related with the lingual and cultural entities. People of different cultures have different name patterns while they may belong to a single religion. Alfordy, Tade and Bronte are linked with the German origin; Alexender and Fleming are of English origin; Alekzander and Mikhail are of Russian origin; Aung San Suukyi and Aung U Win are of the Burmese origin; and Hu Chi Minh and Bruce Lee are of the Chinese origin though they all may belong to the same religion.

Abu Saleh-ur-Rahman, Headyaril Oghu and Shafique bin-Abdelah are the Arabic names; Khurshid Ansari, Salman Haider and Mohammad Rafeeque are derived from Urdu language while at the same time all these are the Muslim names.

In Pakistan the new trend is to use two first-names for an individual; however among some in India too this trend is being noticed of late. People having the names Khursheed Haider, Iqbal Salim and Shahid Afreedi etc are good examples of this sort.

People tend to add the names of the place they are born in. For example Ramesh Calcutta, Asia Malik, Sudney Percy Smith Andrew, Florence Nightingale and Pan France Bhattacharya are such names.

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