The American Name Society and the German Society for Name Research (a.k.a. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Namenforschung) have joined hands in the GfN network of scholarly societies for onomastic research. Other international societies in this network include the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS), Sweden’s Institute for Language and Folklore, France’s Société Française d’Onomastique (SFO), Spain’s Societat d’Onomàstica (Sd’O), and Italy’s Rivista Italiana di Onomastica (RIOn).
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6 Disproportionately Common Names By Profession
Are names indicative of our professions? Verdant Labs put together a chart of the disproportionately common names in each of a wide variety of professions.
What do you call the corner store?
Atlas Obscura looks at the many names we call the “convenience store.”
New Israeli App Helps Parents Choose Baby Names
The Israeli app The Namestork generates name suggestions based on a user’s input of names they like. The app was designed to ease all the list making. According the app’s developers, “a lot of parents already have a general idea about the ‘feeling’ of the name they’re looking for, but they still can’t find the one. The idea is to use a technological solution that will translate this general feeling into a list of names with the highest match potential.”
The most common baby names of Jewish origin
Jews may be only 2 percent of the US population, but Jewish-inspired baby names are generally popular in the United States. Take a look at this analysis.
I’m Baby Jesus and she’s my Fluffy
Oliver Black writes about little terms of endearment that become our names.
Results: Brookfield Zoo’s Wolf Pups Naming Contest
The votes have been counted. The hard decisions have been made. The three adorable wolf pups born in the Chicago Zoological Society’s Brookfield Zoo finally have names to call their own. After receiving more than 20,000 suggestions, zoo authorities have announced that the furry trio have been bestowed the names Rio, Azul, and Ela.
Disney Character Name Analysis
For all those Disney-aficionados who were wondering “what DO all those character names mean?” you can following the link to find some of the answers.
Symposium on Bavarian-Austrian Onomastics, Augsburg, Germany, September 22-23, 2016
From the 22nd to the 23rd of September, 2016, the University of Augsburg (Germany) will be holding a symposium on Bavarian-Austrian onomastics (ABÖN). The specific theme of this year’s conference is “Names in Poetry and Literary Prose.” Interested attendees are encouraged to email Prof. Dr. Klaus Wolf [klaus.wolf@phil.uni-augsburg.de].
ICOS 2014 Proceedings Published
The 2014 conference proceedings are now published and available on the ICOS 2014 website:
Names and Their Environment. Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Glasgow, 15-19 August 2014. 5 vols, edited by Carole Hough and Daria Izdebska. Glasgow: University of Glasgow, 2016.
The proceedings are available for download either by volume (five volumes in total) or by individual paper (organized by thematic section on the website).