LOCAL PECULIARITIES OF THE ANTHROPONYMY OF THE POLISH COMMUNITY OF KHMELNYTSKYI AT THE END OF XX — EARLY XXI CENTURY

The relevance of the article is due to the need to study the anthroponymy of minority national communities of Ukraine. This article is the first attempt to study the peculiarities of the anthroponymy of the Polish community of the city of Khmelnytskyi in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The purpose of the study is to analyze the main features of anthroponymy of the Polish community of the city of Khmelnytskyi for 30 years: in 1991–2020. This analysis includes a comparison of the quantitative and qualitative composition of personal names given to newborns in the Polish community of Khmelnytskyi during this period, as well as determining the frequency of granting certain names. The object of study is the personal naming system of newborns in the selected material — entries in the baptism certificates of children. These records were provided by two Catholic churches in the city of Khmelnytskyi: in one church for 1991–2019, in the second — for 1997–2020. The subject of the study is the specific characteristics of anthroponymy of the modern young generation of ethnic Poles of the city of Khmelnytskyi: those who was born between 1991 and 2020. The research methodology includes the method of chronological sections, the comparative method and sociolinguistic reconstruction. The results of the study can be applied for further research of anthroponymy of residents of Ukraine and personal naming systems of national communities of Ukraine.