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Indicators of an Era: NAMES

Names give us information about eras, circumstances of societies and cultures of those eras. While a family gives a name to their child from the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, another one can name their children from a movie character which is popular at the time. Besides that, it is believed that if people name their children with the name of someone precious for them, the child will have a personality like him/her.

Furthermore, not only people are affected from events of era while they are naming but also naming streets is affected from the political and social structure of society. On the other hand, it can be claimed that naming people have more individual reasons, such as admiration to famous people. So we can say that political changes, politicians of eras, precious people of eras, structure of societies, culture and individual reasons affect the naming process and may give us information about each of these segments.