First names and surnames in Brazil: a systematic literature review

• Autor(a) principal: Seide, Marcia Sipavicius
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Domínios de Lingu@gem
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/dominiosdelinguagem/article/view/65296
• topic: Revisão sistemática de literatura; Antroponomástica; Nome oficial primário; Brasil; Systematic literature review; Anthroponomastics; Primary official name; Brazil

This article reports on a systematic review of literature aimed at investigating what primary official personal names are like in Brazilian Portuguese and how they have been researched epistemologically. To this end, 15 articles were extracted from a bibliographic list of 44 articles on Onomastics published from 2011 to 2021. The findings point to great etymological diversity in both surnames and first names. Except for names of indigenous people and descendants of slaves, ancestor ethnicity and etymology of surname bearers correlate in Brazil. Two types of first names have been reported: conventional names, which are integrated into the Brazilian repertoire in a given period, chosen in harmony with local customs and connected to religious or national traditions, and unconventional names, which diverge from the previous ones and are evaluated as different and one of a kind. Over 25% of the studies approach two or more linguistic levels of analysis, as they are etymologically, orthographically, and/or morphologically oriented. Most studies are local in scope, and all studies account for not only for linguistic features, but also the social and historical context of the data analysed.