Vol. 71 No. 1 (2023): NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics
Report

Name of the Year Report 2022

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  • I. M. Nick
I. M. Nick
American Name Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/names.2023.2513

Published 2023-03-14

Keywords

  • onomastics,
  • linguistics,
  • dialectology

Copyright (c) 2023 I. M. Nick

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

On January 23, 2023, for the 16th year in a row, the American Name Society (ANS) held its annual conference of the American Name Society. The 2023 online vote was chaired by Deborah Walker, the former ANS Name of the Year (NoY) Coordinator. This report gives a summary of this year’s NoY deliberations and offers readers background information about some of the leading onomastic nominations.

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