2014
DOI: 10.1179/0027773814z.00000000080
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Changing One’s First Name in France: A Fountain of Youth?

Abstract: A change of name is a change of identity. Many studies have focused on changes in ethnic identity, because those who change their name are often descendants of migrants or migrants themselves. This article focuses on first name changes in France. It shows that those who change their first name are indeed overwhelmingly the descendants of migrants, but that their identity change is multidimensional. Changing one's first name is also a way to get a younger first name.

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“…For many Sikh-background youths their connotations are now very different. In France, argues Baptiste Coulmont (2014), soon after lower-class parents start mimetically to give middle-and upper-class associated names to their children, they lose their value as signs of distinction for their original upper-and middleclass conferrers, and the cycle begins again. Naming practices thus exhibit marked fashion dynamics.…”
Section: Exchange 3: Ramit Bains For Ramit Singhmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For many Sikh-background youths their connotations are now very different. In France, argues Baptiste Coulmont (2014), soon after lower-class parents start mimetically to give middle-and upper-class associated names to their children, they lose their value as signs of distinction for their original upper-and middleclass conferrers, and the cycle begins again. Naming practices thus exhibit marked fashion dynamics.…”
Section: Exchange 3: Ramit Bains For Ramit Singhmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the onomastic literature, the study of first name-changing or self-renaming is sparse, and mainly investigated from a Western perspective. For instance, the phenomenon has been interrogated as a component of immigrants’ identity (Bursell, 2012; Khosravi, 2012; Sajjad, 2018; Souto-Manning, 2007), as a source of youth subculture (Coulmont, 2014; Falk, 1976; Lujan-Garcia, 2015), as a form of sociocultural identity (Burt, 2009; De Klerk & Lagonikos, 2004; Emmelhainz, 2013; Huang & Ke, 2016; Khatib, 1995) as a part of slavery experience (Miller, 1996; Mphande, 2006), during political transition (Ngubane & Thabethe, 2013; Sabet & Zhang, 2018) and as a tool for transgender identity (VanderSchans, 2015). Little or no attention has been paid to this practice in the West African context where first name-changing among young people is also a way to negotiate belonging in terms of articulating religious, urban and cosmopolitan identities.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Alt sınıfların ise sonradan bu isimleri kullanmaya başladığı gözlemlenmiştir. Bu nedenle, Coulmont (2014) ismin sadece etnik kökeni değil, aynı zamanda cinsiyet, yaş ve sosyal kökeni de temsil ettiğini ifade etmiştir. Çocuğa konulan isimde, ismi seçen kişinin uğraşlarına, sosyal arzularına, kendi cinsiyetiyle olan uyumuna, orijinalliğine, ideallerine ve kendi ailesiyle olan bağlarına yönelik izler vardır.…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…Örneğin göçmen bir aile, çocuklarına kendi köklerine dayalı bir isim verdiğinde bu isim çocuğun kökeni hakkında da bilgi içermiş olur. Asimile olmak isteyen göçmenler bulundukları ülkenin/kültürün içinden bir isim alarak kendi isimlerini değiştirirler (Coulmont, 2014). Benzer şekilde, dini referanslı isimler de kişileri tanımlamaya yönelik ipuçlarına sahiptir.…”
Section: Introductionunclassified