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American Name Society

@americannamesociety.org
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The ANS was founded in 1951 to promote onomastics, the study of names and naming practices. It seeks to investigate cultural insights, settlement history, and linguistic characteristics in names. www.americannamesociety.org

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American Name Society @americannamesociety.org · 15/02/2026
Names, Authority, and Power Panel (21 February 2026, ANS Annual Meeting, Virtual) Join us for a panel on names, authority, and power at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Name Society. #onomastics www.americannamesociety.org/names-author...
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American Name Society @americannamesociety.org · 09/02/2026
Structure and Creativity in Naming Practices Panel (21 February 2026, ANS Annual Meeting, Virtual) Join us for a panel on structure and creativity in naming practices at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Name Society. #onomastics www.americannamesociety.org/structure-an...
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American Name Society @americannamesociety.org · 08/02/2026
Join us for a panel on names in discourse and the transmission of knowledge at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Name Society! www.americannamesociety.org/names-in-dis...
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American Name Society @americannamesociety.org · 07/02/2026
Names, Naming, and Diversity in Youth Literature Panel (21 February 2026, ANS Annual Meeting, Virtual) Join us for a special panel on diversity in youth literature at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Name Society. www.americannamesociety.org/names-naming...
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American Name Society @americannamesociety.org · 06/02/2026
Forensic Onomastics Panel (21 February 2026, ANS Annual Meeting, Virtual) Join us for a special panel on forensic onomastics at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the American Name Society. www.americannamesociety.org/forensic-ono...
The image contains details about a session at the annual meeting of the American Name Society, including the papers: "From Notorious Nicknames to Criminal Archetypes: The Antonomasia of Al-Khott, Al-Tourbini, and Al-Mustarih in Egyptian News Discourse" by Amira Hanafi Elzohiery, Cairo University, Egypt "Names and Anonymizers in the Context of Crime in Online News Texts" by Linnea Gustafsson, Halmstad University, Sweden Per Klang, Halmstad University, Sweden Malin Klang, Uppsala University, Sweden "Onomastics of Extremism: A Collocation Analysis of Selected Names in Anders Breivik's Manifesto" by Tereza Klemensová, University of Ostrava, Czechia Michal Místecký, University of Ostrava, Czechia. Registration information also appears in the image and attached link.
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American Name Society @americannamesociety.org · 30/07/2025
The American Name Society Summer 2025 Bulletin is now available! Read the latest news from the ANS and don't forget to save the date for ANS 2026: February 21, 2026! (Stay tuned for the Call for Papers!) www.americannamesociety.org/summer-2025-...
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American Name Society @americannamesociety.org · 08/06/2025
Dr. Cleveland Evans writes About Names for the Omaha World-Herald. Recently, he discussed the Social Security Administration's list of the United States’ top baby names of 2024. #onomastics #babynames www.americannamesociety.org/about-names-...
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