Basttulijani och Janosa Eva. Personnamn och identifikation i Kågeträskdagboken 1891–1901

In this paper we explore the relationship between unofficial personal names and socialidentification in a peasant diary from Kågeträsk in the county of Västerbotten, datingfrom 1891–1901. From a total of 208 unique personal names we have extracted 169 unofficial personal names. Three categories of unofficial names have thereby been identified and closely analysed. The social aspects that are highlighted in the name formation are gender, place and kinship. The most extensive category consists of names where the kinship relation to the father is indicated: Adams Oskar and Nickes Tilda (60 names). The second category consists of unofficial names formed in relation to place-names: Bastulid-Johan and Strand-Alma (44 names). The third category consistsof personal names for married women given in relation to the name of her husband:Roberts Greta (17 names). The analysis shows that gender is a particularly salient social aspect in all three categories. The most part of the unofficial names used in the diary are men’s names, either their own unofficial name or the name of theirson, daughter or wife. The kinship relations that are indicated by the unofficial names hereby departs from the man in the household, whereas the kinship relations to the woman in the household are unmarked and therefore invisible in the personal naming. The social identification that is indicated by the personal names may also position women and men in different social domains. Both men and women may be identified by their kinship relation to their father and their belonging to a certain place. But while men tend to be identified as sons belonging to the village, women tend to be identified both as servants, daughters, wives or daughters-in-law belonging to the particular farm