 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages)
|
A Balinese name is part of a system of identification used by the Balinese people and in the western parts of the neighboring island of Lombok, Indonesia. A Balinese name will have three parts: a title, a birth order name and a personal name.[1] Balinese people do not use a family name.
Both boys and girls receive birth order name from a small typical group of names for each birth order position. These names may vary due to caste, regional customs and variations in the Balinese language between the north and the south of the island. Balinese people use the birth order name to refer to one another.
As most Balinese are Hindus, many names will be of Sanskrit origin. Some people have traditional Balinese names.
- ^ Geertz H. Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead University of Hawaii Press, 1994 p. ix. ISBN 082481679X