onomastics

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Carole Hough, professor of Onomastics, said she could think of no particular reason why people would choose one or the other, except that Alec is one syllable shorter.

From BBC • May 8, 2013

“Their own names now act as brand names,” said Frank Neussel, editor of Names: A Journal of Onomastics, and a University of Louisville professor of modern language and linguistics.

From New York Times • May 10, 2011