First Names in the Parish of Miholec since World War II

Sa？etak This paper provides research on first names in the Parish of Miholec since the Second World War. Following a brief review of the history of the parish, as well as its demographic and religious composition, the research on first names – which is divided in four significant periods (1947–1951, 1971–1975, 1991–1995, and 2010–2014) – is given. By dividing the research into such periods, we wanted to investigate the structure of the contemporary anthroponymicon in the Parish of Miholec (the amount of national, traditional Catholic names and new, non-traditional names) in the last 70 years and determine the impact of social and political changes in Croatia in the mentioned periods on the repertoire of first names in a linguistically and socially conservative environment