The origins of person's names

Abstract

Using language and its symbolical signification to rule the world has been an invariable practice since the genesis. Analysing person’s names, therefore, should be considered among other things a serious way of recovering social, cultural and religious facts. These facts apparentely lost are duly registered in the untouched fragments of signification within a person’s name. As this paper intends to show, the Onomastic Science, through the sub-areas of Toponimy and Anthroponimy, uses language to rescue causes and facts overlaid during centuries of human existence, and it represents a real cultural recovery of collective memory.