해방 이후 한국인 이름의 특성 및 변천 양상에 대한 사회언어학적 연구

초록

This study aims to identify what typical characteristics of names for Korean people, one of Korean linguistic cultures, are and what changes they have had. For the study, characteristics of names of Korean people who were born for 50 years from 1950s to 2000s were analysed with a use of qualitative method, one of socio-linguistic methodologies. A total of names of 182,400 persons including 60,000 from the capital area and 61,200 from local areas including Gwangju, Daejeon and Daegu were sampled and analysed with a focus given on distribution of language types, frequency of duplication, types of the first and last letters in the names, the number of syllables, and types of the lat sounds of syllables. As a result, it was discovered that the occupancy rate of Chinese names was overwhelmingly high. More male names were in Chinese than female names. Names of Korean or foreign origin were usually used for females. The names with the highest duplication frequency were ‘Yeongsu>Seongsu, Jeongho>Jeonghun>Jihun>Jihun>Minjun for males, and ‘Yeongsuk>Misuk>Eunyeong>Jihye>Minji>Yujin’ for females. The last letters of the names which were frequently used were ‘Su, Ho>Hun>Hyeon>Jun’ for males, and Ja, Suk, Sun, Hui, Ok’ for females. However, since 1980s, letters such as ‘Yeong’ or ‘Eun’ have appeared as components of the names, but 'Hui' has appeared in the most common for such a long time. As a result of analysing the number of syllables in the names, it was discovered that more than 98% were made of two syllables. One syllable names were usually used by male subjects and the names with more than three or four syllables were usually found in female subjects. 'ㄴ' or 'vowels' were most frequently used as the last sounds in the last syllables of the names. ' ㄴ ‘ a consonant, was more used for the last sound of male names and ' vowels ' were more used for the last sound of female names.

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