Sixty Years of NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics

Abstract

This succinct history of NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics discusses its founding in Detroit, Michigan, December 29 1951 and the subsequent creation and publication of its academic journal NAMES in 1953. It provides an enumeration of the Society’s founders and officers, the contents of the first issue, and a listing of famous and frequent contributors to the journal. Maney Publishing is now digitizing all of the contents of NAMES from the first issue (March 1953) to date, which will make these valuable research articles available to the scholars and to the public. A selection of eight important articles published in the journal since 2009 will be available gratis to the public.

Keywords:

• American Name Society
• article access
• digitization
• history of NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics
• Maney Publishing

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Frank Nuessel

Frank Nuessel is Editor of Names: A Journal of Onomastics (2008–). He served as President of the Semiotic Society of America (2011), and he is President of the American Association of Teachers of Italian (2012), and Chief Reader of AP Italian (2006–2009, 2011–).

Correspondence to: Frank Nuessel, Department of Classical and Modern Languages, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292–0001, USA. Email: fhnues01@ louisville.edu