A Note on the Names in Names

Abstract

Names, the journal of the American Name Society, has been publishing articles on names since 1953, but, in the fifty-plus years of publication, Names has yet to publish any studies on the names of the authors who have contributed to the journal. This article examines the names of these contributors in terms of academic associations, prosody, and diversity.

Keywords:

• authors
• affiliation
• prosody
• diversity

Notes

1 I thank the many people who took the time to respond to my many inquiries regarding this and other questions, e.g. ‘middle names.’

2 Statistical probability was determined by the Fisher’s Exact Test. The Fisher’s exact test allows for comparisons involving only two possible outcomes and two variables, for example, males and females tossing coins. Here the question would be, do heads come up more often when men toss coins. There are only two possible outcomes (heads or tails) and only two possible tossers (men or women). In the present study the two outcomes are ‘contains plosives’ and ‘does not contain plosives’ and the two groups that are being compared are authors and hockey players.

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Ernest Lawrence Abel

Ernest Lawrence Abel is Professor of Psychology and Professor of Obstetrics/Gynecology (a departmental appointment, not a vocation). He professes graduate and undergraduate courses on Human Sexuality at Wayne State University in Detroit. His current research in onomastics, other than the current article, is sexual in content (academically speaking). His previous publication in Names (2011) examined women’s name choices after marriage.

Correspondence to: Ernest L. Abel, Mott Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 48201, USA. Email: [email protected]