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'''Onomastics''' or '''onomatology''' is the study of the origin, history, and use of [[proper name]]s.[1] ''Onomastics'' originates from the [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] ὀνομαστικός (''onomastikós''), which translates to "of or belonging to naming",[2][3] from ὄνομα (''ónoma'') meaning "name".[4] [[toponymy|Toponymy or toponomastics]], the study of place names, is one of the principal branches of onomastics. [[Anthroponomastics]] is the study of personal names. Onomastics can be helpful in [[data mining]], with applications such as [[named-entity recognition]], or recognition of the origin of names.[5] [[Literary onomastics]] is the branch that researches the names in works of literature and other fiction.[6] An ''orthonym'' is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study.

==See also==
* [[American Name Society]]
* [[Ancient Greek personal names]]
* [[English Place-Name Society]]
* [[Etymology]], the study of word origins
* [[Extinction of surnames]]
* [[Guild of One-Name Studies]]
* [[Hydronyms]]
* [[International Council of Onomastic Sciences]]
* [[naming convention]]
* [[-onym]], listing the technical kinds of names
* [[Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland]]
* [[Mononymous persons]]
* [[UNGEGN Toponymic Guidelines]]
* [[United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names]]

==References==
* 1. [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Onomastics?s=t "onomastics"]. ''[[Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary]]''.
* 2. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Do%29nomastiko%2Fs ὀνομαστικός], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus project
* 3. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=onomastics&searchmode Online Etymology Dictionary]
* 4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Do%29%2Fnoma ὄνομα], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus project
* 5. Carsenat, Elian (2013). "Onomastics and Big Data Mining". arXiv:1310.6311free to read [cs.CY].
* 6. Alvarez-Altman, Grace; Burelbach, Frederick M. (1987). Names in Literature: Essays from Literary Onomastics Studies.

==External links==
* [https://www.dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Linguistics/Onomastics/] at DMOZ
* [http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/ Lexicon of Greek Personal Names], a Major Research Project of the British Academy, Oxford, contains over 35,000 published Greek names.

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Nick: New page: '''Onomastics''' or '''onomatology''' is the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names.[1] ''Onomastics'' originates from the Greek ὀνομα...

Nick: New page: '''Onomastics''' or '''onomatology''' is the study of the origin, history, and use of proper names.^[1] ''Onomastics'' originates from the Greek ὀνομα...