The first section of the article describes the spread of the old Baltic two and one-stemmed names, patronymous suffixes -ait- and -ün-, deminutive suffixes -e/-, -ul- and -ut- in the Slavonic territories of Lithuanian Grand Dukedom (LGD). The second section deals with the Baltic anthroponyms of the Tatar register. The conclusion shows the migration of people within the multinational state and probable mixed Lithuanian - Tatar marriages. Material for the article was collected from the LGD army documents of the years 1528, 1565 and 1567.

Names were given to almost all men (98,1 %). The most popular name was John. Christian names were given to 89,1 % of the men; diminutive forms of names were given to 64 % of all Christian names. It has been noticed that in the Orthodox rite there were more name forms than in the Catholic rite. 63,3 % of the names were in Christian patronymic form. The most popular was mixed naming; patronymic forms were given to 64 % of the men. Double naming was the most prevalent (71,1 %). Some men’s anthroponyms were formed consisting of mother‘s, stepfather‘s and fatherin- law’s names. A name was given only to one woman (7,7 %). All women’s naming had andronyms, but no women’s naming had patronyms. Women‘s double naming prevailed (61,5 %). The standards of women‘s and men’s naming were different. 21 Baltic anthroponyms were observed in the antroponomy of Grodno’s gentry. There were 5 Lithuanianized Christian names and 30 names not common to the Orthodox: these were Lithuanian and Yotvingian anthroponyms.

In the 16th–17th centuries throughout the Grand Duchy of Lithuania there existed the Slavonic system of recording noblewomen’s names. This system could be characterized as a non-fixed standard. The types of naming depending on the number of proper names in them can be subdivided into monomial, binomial, trinomial, four-member, five-member, and six-member names. Each naming can include (or not include) common words or word combinations explaining proper names. These might consist of one word. The number of common words depends upon the length of the naming, i.e., the more proper names it contains, the more common words or word combinations there are explaining them. The largest number of common words found in the naming is four. According to their meaning, common words or word combinations might be divided into four lexico-semantic groups. They are as follows: 1) kinship or family status; 2) class; 3) post; 4) nationality. The choice depends on the length of the naming, i.e., in short namings words describing kinship and family status prevail, whereas in longer namings there appear more common words or combinations referring to class and post. Nationality is found only in the namings of Tartars. The name was not a frequent phenomenon in women’s namings. Only 37, 4% of the namings contain women’s names. The data of documents from different areas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania differ as well. Further from the ethnic areas of Lithuania the namings including women’s names become rarer. The rarest are from the areas in the eastern part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Volynia. There is a link between the length of the naming and a woman’s name – the more proper names in it the greater the probability for a woman’s name in it. All the four, five and six-member namings include a woman’s name. Among the trinomial namings there are 80, 1% with a woman’s name, but among the binomial ones – only 42, 1%.[...].

This article investigates the designation of 505 individuals belonging to 77 noble families in the Kaunas district. The persons inscribed in the document most likely did not have surnames at that time. Men were usually identified by name and patronymic or by name only. Women were most often identified by a personal name made from the spouse’s name or a personal name from the spouse’s name and his patronymic. All the men and only one-quarter of the women were identified by name. Patronymic designations were typical for the majority of men and only used once as the designation of a woman. Some men were designated with their father’s patronymic. Almost all of the men’s patronymics had Slavic suffixes. Lithuanian suffixes in patronymics were used only three times. Some identifications of men included personal names from the designation of family members (mother, stepfather, father-in-law). Titles were more typically used to identify women than men. Titles of marital status and kinship dominated the designations of both sexes. Business and professional titles were also typical for representatives of both sexes. Titles indicating estate occured only among the men’s identification. Most of the designations of men were binary and designations of women consisted of a single element. A few persons were designated only by a name. The mixed designation of men and the designation of women with an anthroponym made only from the personal names of the family members prevailed.

Šiame straipsnyje yra tiriamas 1690 m. LDK padūmės mokesčių surašymo dokumente užrašytų Kauno pavieto bajorų giminėms priklausančių asmenų įvardijimas. 1.Dauguma vyrų (99,4 %) užrašyti su vardais. Vardas įvardijime būna tik vienas. Tėvavardį turi 1,72 % asmenų. Su pavarde užrašyti visi asmenys. 2.Daugiausia yra dvinarių vyrų įvardijimų (97,97 %), nedaug trinarių (1,56 %) ir vienanarių (0,47 %) įvardijimų. Vidutinis įvardijimo ilgis – 2,01 asmenvardis. 3.Visi vyrų vardai – kalendoriniai krikštavardžiai. Jie užrašyti dažniausiai kanoninėmis formomis. 4.Dauguma moterų (95,45 %) užrašytos su vardais. Vardas įvardijime būna tik vienas. Visos moterys užrašytos su pavarde. Dviejuose įvardijimuose (4,55 %) vietoj vardo užrašytas andronimas. 5.Visi moterų įvardijimai dvinariai. Vidutinis įvardijimo ilgis – 2 asmenvardžiai. 6.Visi moterų vardai – kalendoriniai krikštavardžiai, užrašyti dažniausiai kanoninėmis formomis. 7.Moterų pavardžių priesagos yra -owa, -ina, -ówna. Pavardės gali būti ir galūnių vediniai iš -sk- tipo asmenvardžio.8.Dalis 1690 m. sąrašo bajorų, kurių pavardės kilusios iš giminių pavadinimų (giminių asmenvardžių arba į pavadinimus įeinančių vietovardžių), įrašyti ne to paties pavadinimo giminių sąrašuose, o kitų giminių sąrašuose. Tai leidžia teigti, jog egzistavo mechanizmas, sudarantis galimybę bajorams pereiti į kitą giminę. Tas mechanizmas atsirado jau po to, kai pavardės buvo susiformavusios, nes į kitą giminę asmenys pereidavo jau su savo pavarde.