onomastics

In case you are wondering, this fact and others make up part of an entire field called “onomastics.”

I studied a branch of linguistics called onomastics, which involves the history and origin of proper names.

Parents following larger cultural trends when looking for baby names is nothing new, says Cleveland Evans, a former president of the American Name Society, an group that promotes onomastics, the academic study of proper names.

But sociologists and experts in onomastics, the study of names, said the diminishment of nicknames is not exclusive to famous athletes.

We are as yet so imperfectly acquainted with the onomastics of the nations surrounding the Semites that it is hazardous to attempt to locate these people.