How to choose the right name for a child

"What's in a name?" the great poet once wrote, and he himself had no idea of ​​the depth and scope of the answer to this question.

The question of how to choose the right name for a child worries many parents today. And not in vain! Firstly, the fact that the choice and meaning of a name carries enormous information and leaves a certain imprint on the future fate of its owner is undeniable.

I will not now go into discussions on whether names are able to influence the formation of character and some positive or, conversely, negative inclinations and argue that it is the name that makes a person a person, although there are many arguments and refutation of this.

And yet: what guides parents when choosing a name? Often the child is called:

1. In someone's honor (names of relatives, friends, favorite literary characters, people who they would like to see children like) - for example, Mikhail, like Lermontov, Yuri, like Gagarin, etc. And, by the way, according to the Ministry of Justice, as a rule, children are not named after politicians. So, in Ukraine, the name Victor is now very rare, but the name Julia has been popular for many years.

2. Guided by aesthetic considerations (beautiful, sonorous name) - in other words, using a list of beautiful names. But sometimes, when assigning nice-sounding names, parents do not think about the future of their children at all. The girl receives the name Juliet and can live her life calmly and happily. What if she suddenly encounters insurmountable obstacles in love? …

3. Based on the meaning of the child's name. There are several theories that insist that a person can be described by his name. Knowing the meaning of the name, one can easily determine the character of a person, his predisposition to illness and further life.

Read about the meaning of various names at the link: http://felomena.com/imena/

4. Selection of a name by patronymic. Even a very beautiful name may not be consonant with the name of the father of the child, that is, the patronymic. This point is also worth considering when deciding which name to choose for a child. Agree, Angelica Ivanovna sounds a bit miserable.

5. Choosing a name according to the holy calendar. Once upon a time, names were given according to the church calendar or according to the holy calendar. The priest will look at the calendar and call the baby Avdotya or Ivan, depending on which saint or great martyr's name is closer to the baby's birthday. Over the years, the calendars have repeatedly changed, the calendars have been altered, and they can no longer help in choosing a name. In addition, the natural rhythm of the year was disturbed, which led to changes in calendars; new names appeared. and the old ones are forgotten.

6. Although it turns out that there are other motives from which parents choose names for their children, but at the same time, when they give a name to their innocent baby, they forget about the negative consequences of an incorrectly chosen name.

How to choose the right name for a child

In one of the Russian registry offices (Kirov) a newborn girl was registered under the name ... Russia. According to the parents, they named their daughter this way out of patriotic feelings, without thinking that, having matured, the young patriot Rosa (so tenderly called her family) would probably change this name to something less pretentious.

Although, in my opinion, mom and dad noticeably complicated the life of their child, because in just a few years the child will grow up and understand that the name Russia is so unusual that it causes constant surprise of others and their child will be the last one in this story. Psychiatrists have found that people with funny and strange names are four times more prone to various kinds of mental complexes, and a child with a name that causes ridicule has been in a defensive position since childhood, he is forced to fight for a normal attitude towards himself, which forms certain traits of his character. So it’s worth thinking three times before calling a child an exotic name. True, having reached adulthood, the name can be changed, but ...

Meanwhile, the parents of little Russia were far from being the first in their patriotic undertaking. A few years ago in Nizhny Tagil, a girl born on June 12 was also named Russia. Then the parents decided that the child who was born on Russia Day would undoubtedly turn out to be a born patriot.

Not so long ago, in the same Nizhny Tagil, a married couple named their first child Prahlada. Moreover, this name was given to a boy, not a girl. The baby's parents - Hare Krishnas - say that they have been choosing a name for the child for a long time. As a result, they came to the conclusion that Prahlada is the best option. In addition to Russia and Prahlada, there is already a child in the city named Privatization.

Meanwhile, this case cannot be called unique - the fantasy of our compatriot parents in this responsible matter is inexhaustible and has been striking the public for many years.

It is enough to recall the names "synthesized" from various communist slogans and concepts that came into use after the Great October Revolution.

Of course, we are unlikely to surprise anyone today with Dazdrapermami (short for “Long live the First of May!”) And Vladlenami (“Vladimir Lenin”), but here is Waterpezhekosma (“Valentina Tereshkova - the first woman cosmonaut”), Kukutsapol (“Corn - the queen of the fields"), Lagshmivara ("Schmidt's Camp in the Arctic"), Chelnaldin (a) ("Chelyuskin on an ice floe"), will please many. Especially the "owners" themselves ...

But there were also Dazvsemir - "Long live the world revolution", Dotnara - "Daughter of the working people", Lengenmir - "Lenin - the genius of the world", Leninid - "Lenin's ideas", Lorierik - "Lenin, the October Revolution, Industrialization, Electrification, Radiofication and Communism", Leundezh - "Lenin died, but his cause lives on", Pofistal - "The winner of fascism Joseph Stalin", Pyatvchet - "Five-year plan - four years!", Uryurvkos - "Hurrah, Yura in space!", Perkosrak - " The first space rocket" and many, many others

To be honest, today children receive exotic, unusual names, which we wrote about here . For example, in the Moscow region, the driver Nikolai and the housewife Anastasia named their daughter Viagra. As they themselves admitted, they did it for three reasons. The first of them is the originality of the name, the second is that the drug of the same name contributed to the long-awaited conception of the child, and the third reason is the old love of the couple for the musical group VIA Gra.

There is also a precedent in "Russian history" when a child was given a serial name. Suffice it to recall a high-profile case five years ago, when Muscovites Vyacheslav Voronin and Marina Frolova decided to give their child the name BOC rVF 260602. This abracadabra is deciphered as follows: Biological Object A person of the Voronin-Frolov family, born on June 26, 2002.

June 26, 2002 Frolova Marina Vyacheslavovna gave birth to a boy. 3.10.02 Frolova M.V. and Voronin V.M. applied to the Chertanovsky department of the registry office of Moscow with an application for registration of the birth of a son and the establishment of paternity, they asked for state registration of the birth, establishment of the paternity of the child, indicating the child's surname 'Voronin', the name 'BOCH rVF 260602'

By the decision of the head of the Chertanovsky department of the registry office of Moscow dated 11.10.02. registration of the birth of a child and the establishment of paternity indicating the name of the child 'BOCH rVF 260602' was recognized as impossible, since, according to the registry office, the abbreviation and numbers indicated as a name are not a name.

Frolova M.V. applied to the court demanding that the interested person register the birth of her son, indicating in the column the surname 'Voronin', in the column the name 'BOCH rVF 260602', do not indicate the patronymic.

At the court session, the applicant and the applicant’s representative supported the claims of the complaint, while indicating that BOC rVF 260602 denotes that a biological object of a person belongs to the Voronin and Frolov family, indicating the date of birth, that such a name will not confuse their child with another object in the future, which such a name makes a child, and subsequently an adult, more individual.

The court of first instance refused.

In the CIS countries, this may be the first case, but in Europe such situations have already happened. In the 18th century, a family lived in France, deprived of the most ordinary surname. Instead, she "wore" a set of numbers - 1792. And four sons in this family bore the names of ... months of the year. Thus, in the passport and other documents, it looked like this: January 1792, February 1792, March 1792 and April 1792. The last representative of this strange family, "Mr. March 1792", died in September 1904.

The people did not do without "Santa Barbara" ... I mean that television series have a very strong influence on parents when choosing a name. Of course, we are talking, first of all, about the most impressionable parents who want their child to look like a blue screen star.

For example, there was a case when a woman named her daughter Camilla after the heroine of her favorite Brazilian soap opera. The registry office workers dissuaded the creative mother from such a decision for a long time, but she stood her ground: “The daughter will be Camilla. And when the son is born, I will name him Juan.

Today Kamilla Fedorovna has matured and is now seriously suffering from her parental whim. Remember that the name of the child, and maybe his future fate depends on you.

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