Onomastic Highlights 2023

 Just like last five years (2019, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022), I decided to sum up the most interesting onomastic highlights of the outgoing year. Fisrt, I've counted together all visits on the blog e-Onomastics and ICOS Website, all reactions on ICOS Facebook and all engagements on ICOS Twitter. Thereto, I've added comments and likes. Then, I divided all post into categories and made an overall rating. Additionally, I calculated the reposts' engagements on Twitter to mirrow the new trends within various onomastic areas.  And, I also have to count views on the new ICOS YouTube Channel what is directly related to the initiative "Onomastics Lectures Online"

Let's have a look how rich the year of 2023 was (within brackets you may see ranking points. They reflect the online impact, which the corresponding events got in social media) :

TOP 15 Onomastic Events

(10.237) Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference on Names & Naming

(7.730) XXXI Jornada d’Antroponímia i Toponímia: Els malnoms

(7.592) XXth All-Ukrainian and International Onomastic Conference

(6.158) SNSBI Spring 2023 Conference

(5.622) ICOS Summer School 2023

(3.276) VIII Xornada de Onomástica Galega

(2.199) 6th ICONN "(In)correctness in Onomastics"

(1.859) Symposium: “Dis/continuity in the representation of gender in names across languages”

(1.257) 49è Col·loqui de la Societat d’Onomàstica

(870) Namentagung "Namen und Politik"

(676)  XXIII International Onomastic Conference MiOKO "Cultural Onomastics"

(434) Meeting of Onoma Editorial Board

(433) XXVI International Onomastics & Literature Symposium

(394) 8th Panhellenic Conference of Onomastics

(365) V Jornadas Antroponomásticas

TOP 10  Toponymic Events

(13.407) 3rd Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names

(7.171) XVI Jornada d'Onomàstica de l'AVL. Hidronímia

(5.920) II Congreso Toponomasticon Hispaniae

(4.170) International Training on Toponymy (Indonesia)

(2.898) 7th International Symposium on Place Names

(2.209) Workshop: Geographical Names Data processing and Management

(1.900) SPNS / SNSBI Joint Autumn Conference

(1.670) Welsh Place Name Society Annual conference

(823) SPNS's Annual General Meetind and Spring Conference

(377) Tagung des Arbeitskreises für Bayerisch-Österreichische Namenforschung

Anniversaries

(5.920) English Place-Name Society is 100 years old 

(1.095) 80th Anniversary of Professor Gennady Kovalev (founder of the Voronezh Onomastic School, Russia)

(955) 50 Jahre "Österreichische Namenforschung" (+ Tagung)

(771) Seminar in honor of the Ukrainian onomastician Prof. Yulian Red'ko (1905-1993): 30 years later

Achievements

(1.681) Dictionary of American Family Names awarded the top Honorable Mention (by American Library Association)

(606) 1.5 Million Visits on the e-Onomastics Odyssey

(343) 1000 followers of the Institute for Name-Studies' Twitter channel

(279) 50.000 visits on the Onoma Journal Website

(62) e-Onomastics Blog is on the Libarary of Congress Website

TOP 15  Books and Proceedings

(2.415) Proceedings of the 27th ICOS Congress

(2.369) Reference Dictionary of Ukrainian Names

(2.209) Writing Names in Medieval Sacred Spaces

(1.900) Glasgow’s Gaelic Place-names

(1.581) Place Naming, Identities and Geography

(1.481) La competenza onomastica nell’insegnamento e nell’uso dell’italiano L2

(898) Patrimoine judéo-marocain et onomastique

(775) Le nom de baptême aux XVe et XVIe siècles

(759) Thai Names Handbook 

(523) How Do Proper Names Really Work?

(401) Found in Translation: The unexpected origins of place names

(365) Proper Names of Telugu Catholics and Kerala Syrian Christians

(324) Namen - Zeugen der Geschichte 

(315) Dictionary of Proper Names "Λεξικό Κυρίων Ονομάτων"

(299)  Place Names: Approaches and Perspectives in Toponymy and Toponomastics

TOP 17 new Journals' issues 

(832) ONOMA 57

(726)  Rivista Italiana di Onomastica 29 (1)

(623) ICOS Newsletter Nr. 32 

(515) Nouvelle Revue d'Onomastique Nr. 65

(486) Special issue of journal Genealogy on family names

(349) Acta Onomastica XLIV (1)

(343) MONDONOMO Articles (online journal)

(333) Names 71 (4)

(325 ) Namenkudliche Informationen 114

(321) Onomata Nr. 24

(310) Onomástica desde América Latina 4

(300)  Acta Onomastica XLIV (2)

(278) Noms 20 

(242) Studies in Indian Place Names 42

(---) Onomastica 67 (published in December)

(---) Onomàstica 9 / Anuari de la Societat d’Onomàstica (published in December)

(---) Folia Onomastica Croatica 32 (published in December)

Online Media, Data, Podcasts

(3.062) MONDONOMO Names Database

(2.641) ICOS YouTube Channel

(2.585) Onomastics Online

(2.020) Interactive map showing the pronunciation of Welsh placenames

(1.709) Podcast OnomastikOn (Leipzig)

(729) ANS Conference YouTube Videos

(673) Dr. Rita Heuser bei Science Talk 

(652) Digitales Archiv des Thüringischen Flurnamenarchivs (FB + Insta)

(633) OnomOS Diachronc Corpus

(495) Onomastic Highlights 2022

(443) Série documentaire sur les noms de familles de Corse

(356) Adoption Names Stories Podcast 

Onomastics Online Lectures (Website+YouTube+FB+Twitter)

(3.659) Onomastics Online 9 (with Abralin)

(2.870) Onomastics Online 13

(2.000) Onomastics Online 11

 (1.900) Onomastics Online 12

(1.739) Onomastics Online 10

(1.330) Onomastics Online 15

(1.143) Onomastics Online 14

(1.059) Onomastics Online 16

What's New? 

(1.421) 10 Million Names Project

(412) ODAL CfP  “Mysterious are the ways of the name: Biblical anthroponyms in secular contexts"

(244) Adoption Name Stories Project

(251) English Bird Names Project

Friends and colleagues we lost in 2023 (no ranking, chronological order): 

Paul Fabre (1935 - 2023), specialist of Occitan toponymy and anthroponymy

Ivan Petrov Chobanov (1949-2023), Bulgarian anthroponymist

Friedhelm Ludwig Debus (1932-2023), editor of the series "Documenta onomastica litteralia medii aevi (Dolma)", specialist of historical onomastics

Thomas J. Gasque (1937-2023), member of the ANS Executive Council, former ANS President, former Editor-in-Chief of the journal NAMES

Dmitry Tsygankin (1925 - 2023), specialist of Mordvinic onomastics and toponymy

Most expected events 2024-2025

(4.349) 28th ICOS Congress

(3.989) Medieval Onomastics in times of crisis and stasis at IMC2024 

(3.723) XXe Colloque d'Onomastique

(3.106) Congrés Internacional sobre Onomàstica Hispànica

(3.007) 3rd International Scientific Conference “ONOMASTIC INVESTIGATIONS”

(2.921) ANS Annual Conference

(2.765) International Conference "Spatiality and Temporality"

(2.567) 23rd Slovak Onomastic Conference "Traditional and New in Onomastics"

(1.987) Workshop "Non-bare Proper Names. Proper Names with Determiners and Modifiers"

(1.292) 58th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names

(825) Symposium "In nomine – Name und Benennung im Mittelalter" (2025)

(651) Sektion "Namen in Krisenzeiten / Namenkrisen" (XV. IVG-Kongress 2025)