onomastics

study of proper names of all kinds and the origins of names
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onomastics

Summary

onomastics is a branch of science[1]. onomastics draws 95 Wikipedia views per month (branch_of_science category, ranking #66 of 193).[2]

Key Facts

  • onomastics's image is recorded as Onoma.jpg[3].
  • onomastics's instance of is recorded as branch of science[4].
  • onomastics's GND ID is recorded as 4075199-5[5].
  • onomastics's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85094813[6].
  • onomastics's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119401735[7].
  • onomastics's subclass of is recorded as linguistics[8].
  • onomastics's Commons category is recorded as Onomastics[9].
  • onomastics's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 17189[10].
  • onomastics's has part is recorded as toponymy[11].
  • onomastics's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/012ff7[12].
  • onomastics's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph213330[13].
  • onomastics's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Onomastics[14].
  • onomastics's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX525906[15].
  • onomastics's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 929.97[16].
  • onomastics's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0197650[17].
  • onomastics's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/onomastics[18].
  • onomastics's topic has template is recorded as Template:Personal names[19].
  • onomastics's YSO ID is recorded as 15963[20].
  • onomastics's is the study of is recorded as naming[21].
  • onomastics's is the study of is recorded as name[22].
  • onomastics's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 2689763[23].
  • onomastics's practiced by is recorded as onomastician[24].
  • onomastics's Treccani ID is recorded as onomastica[25].
  • onomastics's Quora topic ID is recorded as Onomatology[26].
  • onomastics's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as onomastics[27].

Why It Matters

onomastics draws 95 Wikipedia views per month (branch_of_science category, ranking #66 of 193).[2] onomastics has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] onomastics is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . YSO-Wikidata mapping project. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14d ago · HelloImSteven · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of linguistics
    Interlingual index id i69009
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q1129340]]"
  2. 14d ago · HelloImSteven · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id 06188711-n
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P8814]]: 06188711-n"
  3. 15d ago · HelloImSteven · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) toponymy
    Ndl authority id 00577228
    Great norwegian encyclopedia id navnegransking
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P527]]: [[Q11955642]]"
  4. 15d ago · HelloImSteven · 2026-05-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Practiced by onomastician
    Has parts
    Topic has template Template:Personal names
    Subclass of
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P527]]: [[Q1973833]]"
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