Özet:

The most important characteristics that distinguish people from other individuals in the society in which they live are the names. From primary societies to modern societies, people have given names to their children, to each other, to their animals and to the objects around them by influencing various elements. Today, a major element that influences their choices when people give names to their children is popular culture. With the influence of mass media such as popular culture, television, the internet, it has a significant power over every part of society, regardless of age, gender, education, profession and social class differences. In this study, the influence on the family in determining the people’s names of the popular culture product footballers, politicians, series-film actors and character names played through mass communication means entered our houses and periodically famous. The study examined the women, men’s names and rankings in the first 100 names that were most used between 1950 and 2018 from the Turkish Statistical Bureau. The study found that political and social events in Turkey between the 1960s and 1980s, the sport and art world between the 1980s and 2000s and the series-film characters between the 2000s and 2018s were very effective in determining the names of families.

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