Double name

A double name in the sense of a personal name refers to the joining of two first names into a new one. In a dual names always include both components firmly together, it is not only one of which is used as a nickname.

Spelling

Double names can merge to form a word (contraction, double form), such as ( Anne Marie / Marianne, Hannelore, Hans Peter, Karl Heinz, Lieselotte ). Next to it is the case with hyphen ( By coupling, hyphen name), Klaus -Peter, Hans -Jürgen, Jan- Henry. These names can also abbreviate only in conjunction in general, so Hans Peter as " H. " Hans -Peter but as " H.-P. " The emphasis of the name can be done in all variants on one of the two components.

In addition, there are also written separate double names: This follows the Romanesque Usance, at Holy whose second name, even if it is a case of first or last name to put as first name. The double name is inseparably connected with this saint or worship (and then also has a special name day ). Here become independent at best, the second part of the name. Examples include Mary Magdalene ( Mary of Magdala, from Magdalena ), Johann Baptist (John the Baptist ), or Maria Rosaria ( Maria of the Rosary, of which Rosa), Maria Victoria ( Our Lady of Victory ), or Franz Xaver after St. Francisco Xavier y Jassu (Franz, Mr. Javier and Jassu near Pamplona, resulting Xaver ); in English, there is an analog form at about George Washington as first name (standing name combination ). These names are used in the Baroque era to ( epoch of Mehrnamigkeit ), and it is common to two or even to use several name as nickname - as with the Empress Maria Theresa. Because of the spread in the family Leitnamen - the namesakes for example, nine of the ten daughters of the Empress in the first name Maria also - then becomes independent of the second part of the name as a nickname. These can be found also by modern coupling or merger, as Stella-Maria/Marie-Estelle to Mary Star of the Sea.

Dissemination

In German, the fused forms of the late 19th century came up with that were coupled by popular especially in the 1930s to the 1950s.

Demarcation from other names education

While a double name, the two individual names remain intact, fall at a joining parts of one or two output name away. Additions were popular in the 19th century in East Frisia.

The old two burly first name as Diethelm or Hildegard are not considered as a double name.