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The following references may be useful when improving this article in the future: vom Bruck, Gabriele; Bodenhorn, Barbara, eds. (2006). An Anthropology of Names and Naming. Cambridge UP. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511499630. ISBN 9780511499630.

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Seems a bit odd.--h i s ^{s p a c e} _{r e s e a r c h} 14:44, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

well, it just got started. Feel free to help make it better. Remember 17:39, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My guess is this is because the project is composed of mostly people interested in oddities, rather than real academic researcher. --Voidvector (talk) 11:46, 29 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The example given of an anthroponym: For example, the English name Fishburn preserves -burn, from an older bourn, an Old English word meaning "brook", which has dropped out of common standard English usage   is unsuitable, as burn is still in common English usage, and bourn and bourne are still in dictionaries and used in written texts, although less commonly heard in speech. They all derive from the Old English burna.

A possible replacement might be: For example, the English name Fishbourne is derived from an Old English word "burna" meaning "brook", which has dropped out of common standard English usage. Apuldram (talk) 12:11, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm looking for you. If you are an anthroponomast, please leave your email address here or email me at fellow.scientist@gmail.com - thanks. And pardon me if this is the wrong forum, but I can't think of where else to look - for them "anthroponomasts"; if that's what people working on anthroponomy are correctly called. Fellowscientist (talk) 13:11, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Anthroponomy and anthroponomastics are two different things; they're completely, completely different. Anthroponomy is the "science dealing with the laws regulating the development of the human organism in relation to other organisms and to environment" according to dictionary.com as well as the rest of its google search results. Anthroponomastics on the other hand is, in fact, the study of personal names or human names.

I suggest we change the title IMMEDIATELY because this is misleading and incorrect. Fellowscientist (talk) 18:56, 8 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a list of countries / cultures with what personal name systems they use? It seems like a useful thing that could have a link from this article (and others). I have in mind something simple like:

It would not cover all subtleties but still seems useful. Fholson 16:24, 2 July 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fholson (talk • contribs)