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For more than a decade, the American Name Society has singled out an outstanding article to be given the Best Article of the Year Award. To select the publication to receive this prestigious honor, each member of the Editorial Board independently reviewed all of the articles that had been published in 2022. As per ANS tradition, obituaries, notes, editorials, book reviews, and articles contributed by the Editor-in-Chief were excluded from consideration. To make their decision, Board Members were asked to select the publications which they felt possessed the highest degree of creativity; demonstrated the best writing style; employed the soundest research methodology; and had the greatest potential to make a lasting and significant contribution to onomastics. Then, in a secret ballot, the Board members cast their votes. This report details the results of that selection process and reveals the 2022 winner of the ANS Best Article of the Year award.

Names, 2013

Names, 2013

It provides an enumeration of the Society's founders and officers, the contents of the first issue, and a listing of famous and frequent contributors to the journal. Maney Publishing is now digitizing all of the contents of NAMES from the first issue (March 1953) to date, which will make these valuable research articles available to the scholars and to the public. A selection of eight important articles published in the journal since 2009 will be available gratis to the public.

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2020

Review of the scientific conference.

2024

Index of fifteen international conferences on Jewish names (1993-2021). The The first half is an Alphabetic index of participants and lecture titles, noting in parentheses the conference in which they spoke with a further note indicating if the lecture was published and where. the second half is a list of subjects presented in this lectures.

Onomastics, although an autonomous discipline, overlaps the subject matter of many other disciplines since name use is central to human activity. In its subfield of terminologies or nomenclatures; moreover, onomastics relates to every discipline, subject field, and activity that human beings pursue. We are a species that categorizes and labels. To illustrate this point, we consider briefly the interconnections of onomastics with a number of other disciplines and then look more particularly at the role of placename study as a cross-disciplinary activity.

Names, 2022

The fifteenth annual Name of the Year vote was held during the online annual conference of the American Name Society on January 23, 2022. The vote was chaired by Deborah Walker, the ANS Name of the Year Coordinator, and was attended by 23 international onomasticians. This report provides a summary of the deliberations and gives background information about the onomastic nominations.

Names. Vol. 65, No. 1. Pp. 45-50., 2017

This note provides a road map for the use of the social security "Popular Baby Names" website. It gives information on how to navigate the site and utilize all of its features for research, decision making in the selection of a baby's name, personal information, and many other possibilities.

2010

The German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP) offers the rare opportunity to look at patterns of given names amongst a representative sample of more than 50,000 people born since 1900. This article develops an exemplary picture of typical frequency distributions for given names and their developments over time. In this paper, we first discuss the advantages and limitations of various