American Name Society

American Name Society

The American Name Society, founded in 1951, is a learned society "founded...to promote onomastics, the study of names and naming practices, both in the United States and abroad... to investigate cultural insights, settlement history, and linguistic characteristics revealed in names." [http://www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/ans/] Its publications include "The Ehrensperger Report" and "NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics".

External links

* [http://www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/ans/ American Name Society home page]


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