A lexicological and socio-anthroponymic approach to the most popular names in Mexico in 2021
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https://doi.org/10.48075/odal.v7i1.35142Keywords:
Socioanthroponymy, Lexicology, First Names, 21st century, MexicoAbstract
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In 2021, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI in Spanish) published the list of names most attributed in Mexico between 2017 and 2020, then those of the year 2021. For the first time, Mexican socioanthroponymists have access to official data covering the entire country. The objective of this contribution is to analyze these data from a lexicological point of view and to establish a number of socio-anthroponomic hypotheses, in order to identify trends in contemporary denominational practices in Mexico. After the creation of an ad hoc database for this corpus of names, they were marked according to the linguistic criteria of language, structure, graphic form, derivative processes, and lexical category changes. This article deals with the most salient data, especially the structure of these most attributed names. To the extent possible, we will try to explain certain choices by socio-historical and sociocultural factors present in the extralinguistic reality of the country. This study is based on socio-pragmatic theories of proper names (Van Langendonck, 2007; Van Langendonck and Van de Velde, 2016; Ainiala and Östman, 2017), as well as contemporary studies in socioanthroponymy (Aldrin, 2016; Seide and Petrulione, 2018, López Franco, 2014, 2020). A first finding is that traditional compound names are much less popular than 50 years earlier, and that Spanish has not been displaced by borrowings to other languages, at least in the first frequency ranks. These choices contribute to the collective identity of Mexicans, in a society that wants to be sustainable.
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