Personal names on Pašman

Neupitan je suodnos strukture stanovništva, njegove pokretljivosti ili stalnosti sa sastavom i brojem imena u zajednici. Često su upravo imena ta koja upućuju na naše podrijetlo i koja svjedoče o promjenama koje su se dogodile u nekom kraju tijekom povijesti te je stoga važno ponešto reći o događajima koji su utjecali na to da se ona nađu tamo gdje su sad.The article on personal names on the island of Pašman gives a short overview of demographic trends through history which had an impact on the composition and number of inhabitants of the islands near Zadar including Pašman, which also had an indirect impact on the choice of personal names. The central part of the article analyses the synchronic corpus of personal names collected by means of a survey on the island and from the birth register. For purposes of comparison with this corpus, a collective survey of sources for the selection of personal names in earlier centuries is provided (13th-14th centuries, 19th century)