Аннотация:The Bulgarian three-component name system was established in the late 19th century, shortly after the Bulgarian independence.Based on the long-standing Bulgarian tradition, first names, patronymics and family names reveal the ethnic and cultural identity of the name bearers.This study is synchronic and investigates the effect some current naming practices have on the contemporary Bulgarian onomasticon.Special emphasis is placed on the following issues: diachronic name dynamics, contemporary given-name frequency, name loss, name borrowing, issues regarding hereditary patronymics, and family names and their forms.The research is based on official first and father's name registries and on a corpus of family names from publicly available records.The main conclusions show that two parallel trends can be delineated: 1) the Bulgarian anthroponymicon looks more international nowadays; 2) the prevalence of onyms traditional for the Bulgarian anthroponymic system among most newborns is proof of the stability of Bulgarian identity.
