Resources: Journals

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Journals

Find these journals about onomastics at a library near you.

JOURNALS	Journal Name	Publisher
International	Onoma: Journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences	Peeters
	The Journal of Literary Onomastics	Digital Commons @ Brockport
	The Guild of One-Name Studies
	Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland

Africa	Nomina Africana
Baltic Nations and Finland	Onomastic Uralica
Canada	Onomastica Canadiana
Croatia	Folia Onomastica Croatica	Hrvatska Akademija Znanosti I Umjetnosti
Czech	Acta Onomastica	Czech Language Institute
France	Nouvelle Revue d’Onomastique
Germany	Beiträge zur Namenforschung	Universitätsverlag Winter
	Zunamen: Zeitschrift für Namensforschung	Baar-Verlag Hamburg
Hungary	Magyar Nyelv

Ireland	AINM: The Journal of the Ulster Place Name Society
Italy	Rivista Italiana di Onomastica
The Netherlands	Naamkunde: Tijdschrift voor naamkunde in het Nederlandse taalgebied	Peeters

Norway	Nytt on namn
	Namn og Nemne
Poland	Onomastica: Journal on geographic and personal names and other proper names
	Onomastica Slavogermanica	Hirzel
Russia	Problems of Onomastics	Ural University Press
Scotland	Clann Tuirc: The Journal of Scottish Names
Sweden	Namn och byd: Tidskrift för nordisk ortnamnsforskning	Swedish Science Press
	Ortnamnssällskapet i Uppsala
	Studia anthroponymica Scandinavica: Tidskrift för nordisk personnamnsforskning	Swedish Science Press

Resources for Personal Names

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Learn more about personal names on the following websites:

Given Names

U.S. Social Security Administration -U.S. Birth Name Statistics by year and state.
BabyNames.com – Online since 1996, this site provides name meanings, origins, notes, top most popular lists and a large name community.
Behind the Name – Extensive collection of names, meanings and cross-references.

Resources: Onomastic Collections

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Read more about the Lurline Coltharp Collection of Onomastics, housed at the University of Texas at El Paso.… Read More

Resources for Fictional Names

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Learn more about fictional names on the following websites:

CharacterNames.com – Tips on naming fictional characters and essays on fictional names from television, movies and books.… Read More

Resources for Place Names

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Learn more about place names on the following websites:

Placenames.com – Find countries, cities, towns, villages, mountains, hills, rivers, lakes, islands, and other geographic and administrative place names.

GeoNames – geographical database of place names

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names – find information about named places

Scots Words and Place-names – glossary of Scots words which are used in place-names

Gaelic Place-names of Scotland – national advisory partnership for Gaelic place-names in Scotland.… Read More

Resources: Onomastics Software

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Check out what we can build using names!

These companies and organizations are building tools that you can use.

Software

Ethnic Technologies – predictive ethnicity identification software
NameSor – name recognition software
How Many of Me – A calculation of how many people in the U.S. have your given name and surname