Here you will find a selection of onomastic journals. All of them offer the opportunity to publish research on personal names.
Beiträge zur Namenforschung. Neue Folge is an international interdisciplinary journal for onomastics. The articles cover name usage and name history, name grammar and name theory. The journal is open to problems concerning personal names and animal names, geographical names, event names, product names, etc. in all languages, spaces and times. The focus is on the languages and names of Central Europe. Reviews provide information on new publications in onomastics as well as on publications relevant to onomastics on language history, dialectology, grammar, lexicography, history and archaeology. The languages of publication are German and English.
Editor: Founded By Rudolf Schützeichel
Edited By Damaris Nübling – Rolf Bergmann – Kirstin Casemir – Ulrich Obst – Mirjam Schmuck – Rudolf Steffens – Karin Stüber
Chief Editor: Damaris Nübling
Scientific Advisory Board: Emilia Aldrin – Javier Caro Reina – Rüdiger Harnisch – Wolfgang Janka – Luise Kempf – Katharina Leibring – Antje Lobin – Ann Marynissen – Elke Ronneberger–Sibold – Miriam Schmidt–Jüngst
Journal of Onomastics (Namenkundliche Informationen, NI) is an international and interdisciplinary journal dedicated to onomastics. It publishes scholarly research articles, with a particular focus on the field’s intersections with linguistics, literary studies, history, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy and geography. The journal welcomes studies of all categories of names, including personal names and toponyms. Founded in 1964 by Germanists, Slavists and historians in Leipzig, the journal is now published on behalf of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Leipzig. It is the flagship publication of the Gesellschaft für Namenforschung e.V. (GfN), the Society for Name Research.
The Journal of Onomastics is published continuously online in gold open access and is indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Each year’s articles are additionally compiled in a print volume. Publication languages are German, English and French.
All submitted articles first undergo an editorial review by the editorial team and are then peer reviewed by recognized experts in the field. Both the reviewer and the contributor are anonymous (minimum of 2 reviews, double-blind procedure).
The journal is an open-access journal. All contributions are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license and can be used freely under the terms of the license.
Names. A Journal of Onomastics
Published by University of Pittsburgh from 2021.
Names, the journal of the American Name Society, is one of the world’s leading journals in the study of onomastics. Since the first issue in 1952, this quarterly journal has published hundreds of articles, reviews, and notes, seeking to find out what really is in a name, and to investigate cultural insights, settlement history, and linguistic characteristics revealed in names.
The NoSo journal is a multidisciplinary, international, open access journal for research studying the role of names in society and in social interaction. It has been published since 2021 by the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy for Swedish Folk Culture and is indexed in DOAJ. The journal includes articles on all kinds of names, on historical as well as contemporary data, on different methods and on theoretical as well as practical issues. The scope is Nordic, in the sense that the published research aims to be of relevance for Nordic readers (but must not concern Nordic data or be written in Nordic languages).
Members of the INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR PERSONAL NAMES RESEARCH are most welcome to read or submit articles via the journal website.
Nouvelle Revue d’Onomastique (NRO)
The Nouvelle Revue d’Onomastique is a journal of approximately 320 pages gathering articles by researchers from various backgrounds, whose common interest is the study of proper names. Founded in 1983, the journal contains both miscellaneous articles and thematic files (e.g. Breton, Romanic and Slavic onomastics, links with archaeology, dialectology, literary onomastics, etc.), a ‘Review of Journals’ providing an overview of journals published abroad, as well as reports of recent publications. The preferred language is French, but it also hosts texts in German, English, Spanish and Italian.
Onoma
Journal of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences
Founded in 1950, Onoma (ISSN: 0078-463X; e-ISSN: 1783-1644) is one of the oldest journals in the field of onomastics and occupies a central role in the discipline. Until vol. 32, its content mainly comprised current international onomastic bibliographies. Since that issue, Onoma has been inviting topical research reports as well as articles and reviews of general, theoretical and historical interest concerning all areas of scholarly name research. The journal is published by Mega Publishing House on behalf of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS), the most broadly based organization in the field of onomastics. It accepts studies written in English, French, and German, which are double-blind peer-reviewed, following the highest standards of current international practice. More information here: https://onomajournal.org/
Onomastica Canadiana
Onomastica Canadiana — formerly Onomastica — is the official, bilingual, peer-reviewed journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names since 1951. Its principal objectives are to promote the study of names in Canada and abroad, as well as to exchange ideas among onomatologists, toponymists, and scholars in the related fields of literary onomastics and linguistic aspects of names.
Onomástica desde América Latina – Onomastics from Latin America
The journal was created in 2020 by Márcia Sipavicius Seide from Brazil and Yolanda Guillermina López Franco from Mexico. Since 2023, it has been an annual publication dedicated to promoting and diffusing onomastic research on a national and international scope. The journal receives and publishes articles continuously. The journal does not charge submission or publication fees and uses the Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) for copyright distribution. Members of the International Network for Personal Names Research are welcome to read, download or submit articles via the journal website, which is available in Portuguese, Spanish, French, and English—the languages in which articles can be published.