Pet Naming Practices in Turkey: Cats vs. Dogs

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dc.contributor.authorKetrez, F. Nihan
dc.date.accessioned2026-04-04T18:56:11Z
dc.date.available2026-04-04T18:56:11Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractPet-naming practices reflect the attitudes of pet owners towards their pets and their place in their lives and society. In the US and other western countries, pet animals are often given names that are commonly used for humans. This trend is frequently considered an endorsement of family membership granted to pet animals. In this study, cat and dog names reported by Turkish-speaking cat and dog owners were examined; and the proportion of human vs. non-human, as well as foreign vs. domestic names were investigated. It was observed that cats were more likely to be given human names than dogs. Cats also received more traditional Turkish names, while dogs were more likely to be given foreign or more modern human names. The results are evaluated in relation to the status of pet dogs in the modernization and secularism of modern Turkey. Historically, dogs were granted limited access to homes because of their ritually impure status in Islam. With the modernization and westernization trends, however, having a dog as a pet became a symbol of modernity. The differential pet-naming trends reported in the present study complement such observations regarding the status of cats vs. dogs in modern Turkey.
dc.identifier.doi10.5195/names.2025.2613
dc.identifier.doi10.5195/names.2025.2613
dc.identifier.endpage61
dc.identifier.issn0027-7738
dc.identifier.issn1756-2279
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-105015478487
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage49
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.5195/names.2025.2613
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/10733
dc.identifier.volume73
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001567980900005
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniv Pittsburgh, Univ Library System
dc.relation.ispartofNames-A Journal of Onomastics
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_WoS_20260402
dc.snmzKA_Scopus_20260402
dc.subjectZoonym
dc.subjectAnthroponym
dc.subjectFirst Name
dc.subjectProper Name
dc.subjectPet-Naming Practices
dc.subjectTurkish
dc.titlePet Naming Practices in Turkey: Cats vs. Dogs
dc.typeArticle

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