Orð og tunga - 2023, Page 149
140 Orð og tunga
Lykilorð
eiginnöfn, mannanafnaskrá, mannanafnalög, vinnulagsreglur, mannanafnanefnd
Keywords
personal names, personal names registry, law on personal names, procedural rules,
personal names committee
Abstract
The article sheds light on the origin and development of the Icelandic register of
personal names. There were various matters of opinion during the creation of this
register, e.g. regarding the interpretation of the provision in the name law from 1991
that given names should be Icelandic. Procedural rules have been established to
ensure that the law‘s implementation would be clear. In 1996, a new naming law
was passed, and it was no longer required that a given personal name should be
Icelandic. That change had a great impact on Icelandic register of personal names,
and based on it, many names of foreign origin have been added to the register. A
number of nicknames that were not allowed as personal names according to the old
law, as well as many old names that were not included in the register in 1991 because
how uncommon they were have also been added. With the entry into force of the
law on gender autonomy in 2019, the provision that a girl should be given a female
name and a boy should be given a male name was abolished, and as a result various
genderneutral names have been added to the personal names register.
Ágústa Þorbergsdóttir
Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum
agusta.thorbergsdottir@arnastofnun.is
Guðrún Kvaran
prófessor emerítus
gudrun.kvaran@arnastofnun.is
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