Showing posts with label Schochenmaier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Schochenmaier. Show all posts

Monday, May 25, 2026

e-Onomastics Reaches 5 Million Visits

 Dear readers, colleagues, and friends of names,

I am delighted to share a special milestone: e-Onomastics has reached 5 million visits.

What began as a space for sharing news, calls for papers, publications, conferences, and reflections on the study of names has grown into a truly international meeting point for everyone interested in onomastics, toponymy, anthroponymy, naming practices, and the cultural life of names.

This milestone belongs not only to the blog, but also to its readers. Thank you for visiting, reading, sharing, commenting, sending news, and keeping the global onomastic conversation alive. Your interest shows that names matter - in scholarship, in society, in history, in identity, and in everyday life.

Over 13.5 years, e-Onomastics has tried to serve as a bridge between researchers, institutions, students, and the wider public with its 4.753 blog posts. Reaching 5 million visits is a wonderful encouragement to continue this work with even more energy and curiosity.

With sincere gratitude to all readers around the world:

Thank you for being part of the e-Onomastics community.
The journey of names continues.

Friday, March 13, 2026

e-Onomastics: Celebrating 4 Million Visits


Today marks an extraordinary achievement for e-onomastics.blogspot.com: 4 MILLION VISITS since its launch in 2012. This milestone represents far more than impressive statistics - it reflects twelve years of unwavering commitment to making onomastic research accessible, visible, and relevant to a global audience.Congratulations to everyone who has made this possible!

When e-onomastics began in 2012, few digital platforms systematically covered the diverse world of name research. Today, this blog stands as one of the longest-running and most influential onomastic blogs worldwide, serving readers from every continent.

As we celebrate 4 million, the future looks bright. The field continues evolving rapidly with AI, indigenous sovereignty movements, and interdisciplinary collaboration. e-onomastics is perfectly positioned to document, promote, and participate in these developments.

Thank you to the creator, contributors, and the entire global community. Here's to the next million visits and many more years of excellence!

🎉 Congratulations on this remarkable achievement! 🎉


Aujourd'hui marque une réussite extraordinaire pour e-onomastics.blogspot.com : 4 MILLIONS DE VISITES depuis son lancement en 2012. Ce jalon représente bien plus que des statistiques impressionnantes - il reflète douze ans d'engagement indéfectible pour rendre la recherche onomastique accessible, visible et pertinente pour un public mondial. Félicitations à tous ceux qui ont rendu cela possible !

Lorsque e-onomastics a débuté en 2012, peu de plateformes numériques couvraient systématiquement le monde diversifié de la recherche sur les noms. Aujourd'hui, ce blog est l'un des blogs onomastiques les plus anciens et les plus influents au monde, servant des lecteurs de tous les continents. 

Alors que nous célébrons 4 millions, l'avenir s'annonce prometteur. Le domaine continue d'évoluer rapidement avec l'IA, les mouvements de souveraineté autochtone et la collaboration interdisciplinaire. e-onomastics est parfaitement positionné pour documenter, promouvoir et participer à ces développements.

Merci au créateur, aux contributeurs et à toute la communauté mondiale. Au prochain million de visites et à de nombreuses années d'excellence !

🎉 Félicitations pour cette remarquable réussite ! 🎉


Heute markiert eine außergewöhnliche Leistung für e-onomastics.blogspot.com: 4 MILLIONEN BESUCHE seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 2012. Dieser Meilenstein repräsentiert weit mehr als beeindruckende Statistiken - er reflektiert zwölf Jahre unerschütterlichen Engagements, onomastische Forschung für ein globales Publikum zugänglich, sichtbar und relevant zu machen. Herzlichen Glückwunsch an alle, die dies möglich gemacht haben!

Als e-onomastics 2012 begann, berichteten wenige digitale Plattformen systematisch über die vielfältige Welt der Namenforschung. Heute steht dieser Blog als einer der am längsten bestehenden und einflussreichsten onomastischen Blogs weltweit und dient Lesern von allen Kontinenten

Während wir 4 Millionen feiern, sieht die Zukunft vielversprechend aus. Das Feld entwickelt sich weiterhin rasant mit KI, indigenen Souveränitätsbewegungen und interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit. e-onomastics ist perfekt positioniert, um diese Entwicklungen zu dokumentieren, zu fördern und daran teilzunehmen.

Danke an den Schöpfer, die Mitwirkenden und die gesamte globale Gemeinschaft. Auf die nächste Million Besuche und viele weitere Jahre der Exzellenz!

🎉 Herzlichen Glückwunsch zu dieser bemerkenswerten Leistung! 🎉

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Name It to Map It: Exploring How Onomastic Databases Enable AI to Navigate Culture and Identity


 By Eugen Schochenmaier

I’m pleased to share my latest article, “Name It to Map It: Exploring How Onomastic Databases Enable AI to Navigate Culture and Identity”, now published in Onomastica Uralica (Vol. 20, 2025).

This piece examines the powerful synergy between onomastics and artificial intelligence. Far from being mere labels, personal and place names encode rich layers of linguistic, cultural, and historical information. When structured into comprehensive databases like Nomograph (developed by Mondonomo), these names become foundational resources for ethical, context-aware AI systems.

The article explores real-world applications: from detecting health disparities through surname analysis, to supporting minority-owned businesses in Europe using name-based ethnicity inference, to restoring ancient Greek inscriptions with deep learning. It also addresses critical challenges - such as bias in training data, the complexity of unisex or multilingual names, and the ethical handling of personal identity data.

By bridging computational methods with deep linguistic insight, onomastic AI can promote cultural preservation, social equity, and global interoperability - all while respecting privacy and diversity.

👉 Read the full article (PDF)
Onomastica Uralica, Vol. 20 (2025), pp. 315–324 – Open Access


Français

Nouvel article. Comment les bases de données onomastiques alimentent une IA pour un monde plus inclusif
Par Eugen Schochenmaier

Je suis heureux de présenter mon nouvel article, « Name It to Map It: Exploring How Onomastic Databases Enable AI to Navigate Culture and Identity », publié dans Onomastica Uralica (vol. 20, 2025).

Cet article explore la synergie entre l’onomastique et l’intelligence artificielle. Loin d’être de simples étiquettes, les noms de personnes et de lieux portent des strates riches d’information linguistique, culturelle et historique. Structurés dans des bases de données comme Nomograph (développée par Mondonomo), ils deviennent des ressources essentielles pour des systèmes d’IA éthiques et sensibles au contexte.

L’article présente des applications concrètes : de la détection des inégalités en santé via l’analyse des patronymes, au soutien des entreprises minoritaires en Europe grâce à l’inférence ethnique à partir des noms, en passant par la restauration d’inscriptions grecques anciennes par apprentissage profond. Il aborde aussi des défis essentiels : les biais dans les données d’entraînement, la complexité des noms unisexes ou multilingues, et le traitement éthique des données identitaires.

En combinant méthodes computationnelles et expertise linguistique, l’IA onomastique peut favoriser la préservation culturelle, l’équité sociale et l’interopérabilité mondiale - tout en respectant la vie privée et la diversité.

👉 Lire l’article complet (PDF)
Onomastica Uralica, vol. 20 (2025), p. 315–324 – Accès libre


Deutsch

Neuer Artikel. Wie onomastische Datenbanken eine KI für eine inklusivere Welt ermöglichen
Von Eugen Schochenmaier

Ich freue mich, meinen neuen Artikel „Name It to Map It: Exploring How Onomastic Databases Enable AI to Navigate Culture and Identity“ vorzustellen, erschienen in Onomastica Uralica (Band 20, 2025).

Der Beitrag untersucht die fruchtbare Verbindung zwischen Onomastik und künstlicher Intelligenz. Namen sind weit mehr als bloße Etiketten: Sie tragen vielschichtige linguistische, kulturelle und historische Informationen in sich. Werden sie in strukturierte Datenbanken wie Nomograph (entwickelt von Mondonomo) überführt, werden sie zu Schlüsselressourcen für ethische, kontextsensible KI-Systeme.

Der Artikel beleuchtet praktische Anwendungen: von der Erkennung gesundheitlicher Ungleichheiten durch Familiennamenanalyse über die Unterstützung von Minderheitenunternehmen in Europa mittels namensbasierter ethnischen Zuordnung bis hin zur Restaurierung antiker griechischer Inschriften mithilfe neuronaler Netze. Gleichzeitig thematisiert er zentrale Herausforderungen - wie Verzerrungen in Trainingsdaten, die Komplexität uni- oder multilingualer Namen und den ethischen Umgang mit personenbezogenen Identitätsdaten.

Durch die Verknüpfung computergestützter Methoden mit linguistischer Expertise kann onomastische KI zur kulturellen Bewahrung, sozialen Gerechtigkeit und globalen Interoperabilität beitragen - stets unter Wahrung von Datenschutz und Vielfalt.

👉 Volltext lesen (PDF)
Onomastica Uralica, Band 20 (2025), S. 315–324 – Open Access

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

e-Onomastics just crossed 2.5 million visits!

 EN — Celebration post

e-Onomastics just crossed 2.5 million visits!

A heartfelt thank-you to everyone who reads, shares, and sends tips. Since 2012 we’ve published 4,534 posts, received 93 comments, and now reached 2,501,946 visits - proof that onomastics is very much alive and curious.

Here’s to more names, places, stories, and standards. Onward!


FR — Message de célébration

e-Onomastics vient de franchir les 2,5 millions de visites !
Un grand merci à toutes et tous pour votre fidélité. Depuis 2012, nous avons publié 4 534 billets, reçu 93 commentaires et atteint 2 501 946 visites - la preuve que l’onomastique passionne toujours.

Cap sur de nouveaux noms, lieux, récits et standards. On continue !


DE — Jubiläumsbeitrag

e-Onomastics hat die Marke von 2,5 Millionen Besuchen geknackt!
Ein herzliches Dankeschön an alle, die lesen, teilen und Themen beisteuern. Seit 2012 haben wir 4.534 Beiträge veröffentlicht, 93 Kommentare erhalten und nun 2.501.946 Besuche erreicht - ein schönes Zeichen dafür, wie lebendig die Onomastik ist.

Auf viele weitere Namen, Orte, Geschichten und Standards. Weiter geht’s!

Sunday, December 4, 2022

e-Onomastics is 10 years old ! ! !

 e-Onomastics, this very blog, is TEN years old this month! 

I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since I started blogging! 


It was tough to juggle full time work at college but I did it. 

Over that time, the vision for this blog has slightly changed but I am still doing more or less the same.

I am still in a bit of shock about that fact, never would I have ever dreamed that my blog could last this long. 

It’s been ten amazing years spent in the company of all of you, wonderful and good-hearted onomasticians, who really keep me going. 

With almost 1,26 million visits and 3.777 posts, we are one of the oldest and the most visited blog dedicated to onomastics: 



I can’t imagine my life without interacting with you guys whose generosity and research has been essential to me. Thanks to all of you delightful name-fans for bringing out a more confident side of me, with your collective kindness and endless array of support in sharing onomastic news. 

I’m so happy to have reached this milestone in my blogging "career" and hope to continue for as long as I can)))

Monday, December 28, 2020

Onomastic Highlights 2020

 Just like last two years (2019, 2018), I decided to sum up the most interesting onomastic highlights of the outgoing year. Fisrt, I've counted together all visits on my blog e-Onomastics, 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.

Let's have a look how rich the "pandemic" year of 2020 was (within brackets you may see ranking points. The postponing of events added much more attention to them. They reflect the online impact, which the corresponding events got in social media) :


TOP 20 Onomastic Events (postponed and cancelled included)

(2.517) ICOS 2020 (Poland)
(1.534) Конференция „Антропоними и антропонимни изследвания в началото на XXI век“ (Bulgaria)
(1.341) Names Society of Southern Africa Congress 2020 (South Africa)
(860) Tagung 2020 "Werbende Namen" (Germany)
(782) 54th Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Studies of Names (Canada)
(743) Міжнародная канферэнцыя «Сучасныя праблемы анамастыкі» (Belarus)
(661) XXV Convegno Internazionale di Onomastica & Letteratura (Italy)
(641) Atelier "Le millefeuille onomastique"(United Arab Emirates)
(633) XIXe Colloque d'Onomastique (France)
(607) Onomastic Conference ACTA 60 (Czechia)
(569) 29th SNSBI Spring Conference (UK)
(550) XIII Jornada d'Onomàstica de l’AVL (Spain)
(479) International Online Conference "Spatiality and Temporality"
(466) Online seminar "Why study Onomastics for the sake of Old Norse Mythology?"
(385) "Names as Borders" Session at the International Medieval Congress 2020 (UK)
(360) XVIII Международная конференция "Ономастика Повольжья" (Russia)
(289) V Xornada de Onomástica Galega (Spain)
(259) 23rd Finnish Conference of Onomastics (Finland)
(240) 7th Panhellenic Conference of Onomastics (Greece)
(221) SNSBI Autumn Zoom Conference (UK)

TOP 7 Toponymic Events (postponed and cancelled included)

(417) Colloque “Nommer les lieux : Questions interdisciplinaires ...” (Switzerland)(356) Session on Toponymy at 34th IGU Intern. Geographical Congress (Turkey)
(350) Lecture "Place-names, narratives and … history of Iceland" (UK)
(340) 3rd Symposium “Permanence, transformation, substitution and oblivion of geographical names” (Italy)
(299) Scottish Place-Name Society's Spring Day Conference 2020 (UK)
(290) Conference "Mapping Space / Mapping Time / Mapping Texts" (UK)
(266) Zoom Lecture "Scottish Place-Names: Past, Present and Future"


Anniversaries

Persons
(172)     95 - Boris Moiseev, Toponymist from Orenburg, Russia. 
(430)     70 - Marja Kallasmaa, Onomastician at the Institute of the Estonian Language

Organisations and societies
(284)     40 - Societat d'Onomàstica
(184)     60 - Українська ономастична комісія напередодні 60-річного ювілею

TOP 6 Books and Works

(492)   L’Empreinte des lieux” par Stéphane Gendron
(272)   Onomastyczna analiza dyskursu by M. Rutkowski and K. Skowronek
(270)   Nazwy geograficzne w polskich przekładach Nowego Testamentu ...
(124)   Dictionnaire historique de l’anthroponymie romane Vol.III/2
(124)   The Birds of KwaZulu-Natal and their Zulu Names by N. Turner, A. Koopman and R. Porter

TOP 6 Awards, grants and prizes

(2.169) Alexandra Petrulevich (by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond)
(411)    Wojciech Włoskowicz (Prime Minister Prize)
(241)    Emma Heywood (SNSBI' Essay Prize)
(211)    Maria Löfdahl (by the Royal Gustavus Adolphus Academy)
(144)    Luis Fernández (premio del VIII Concurso de Recogida de Toponimia)
(135)    Assumpció Rehues (III Premi Ramon Amigó)

TOP 10 Journals

(3.368) Onoma 53 (2018, published 2020)
(2.954) Onoma 54 (2019, published 2020)
(938)    Nordic Journal of Socio-Onomastics (launched 2020)
(830)    Onomástica desde América Latina 1(1/2) (launched 2020)
(568)    Voprosy onomastiki  (Вопросы ономастики) 17 (2/3)
(522)    Onomastica LXIV
(246)    NomsRevista de la Societat d’Onomàstica 13 
(196)    Onomastica Uralica 15
(147)    Nomina Africana 34

Friends and colleagues we lost in 2020 (no ranking, chronological order)

Germà Colón i Doménech (1928 – 2020), Spanish philologist, Catalan toponymist 
Ankica Čilaš Šimpraga (1970-2020), head of the Department of Croatian Onomastics
Michael Smart (1931-2020), Execut. Secretary of the Ontario Geographic Names Board
Barbara Czopek-Kopciuch (1952-2020), head of the Department of Polish Onomastics
Gumar Sattarov (1932-2020), Tatar onomast, Kazan Federal University
Xavier Ravier (1930 - 2020), Professeur de toponymie occitane
Nicolae Felecan (1941-2020), Romanian onomast, University of Baia Mare
Todor Balkansky (1944-2020), head of the Department of Bulgarian Onomastics
Νικολάου Γ. Κοντοσόπουλου (1929-2020), former Vice-President of the Greek Society of Onomastics

Online data and media 

(881) e-Onomastics: first onomastic blog to get over 1 Million views
(514) Портал по ономастике Института языкознания РАН
(509) Galloway Place-Names database launched
(282) Interactive display of surnames distributions (Great Britain)
(223) Icelandic Placename Database launched
(130) Neue Webseite der Namenberatungsstelle (Leipzig)
(126) Nouvelle version du site "Dictionnaire topographique de la France"

Projects and networks

(440) NameExoWorlds: Naming planets
(368) Hesperia project
(257) Projekt „Živá jména
(235) "Iona's Namescape" Project
(235) Systematization of names (historical-diachronic method) in Kazakhstan
(222) Project Polska Onomastyka 2.0

Most expected events 2021

(2.518) ICOS 2021 (Poland) 
(1.705) 6th biennial international symposium on place names (South Africa)
(1.364) American Name Society Conference 2021 (USA)
(293)    XIХ Международная конференция «Ономастика Поволжья» (Russia)
(155)    55ème Réunion annuelle de la Société canadienne d'onomastique (Canada)


Thursday, November 19, 2020

First onomastic blog to get over 1 Million Views !

 

Today, I reached a milestone in my blog e-Onomastics: I had my one MILLIONTH visit!! HOO WOO !!! 


Last year, I was kind of occupied with other things (in the pic.) but I tried to post regulary. 



Thank you to everyone who is reading this, from the long term readers (3100 posts!) who have been there since the beginning in 2012 to the ones who just found me today.

Saturday, November 16, 2013

The SHOKHENMAYERs

Long before I intented to carry out the research on my own surname: SHOKHENMAYER.

The actual "Shokhenmayer" is the translitteration from Russian "ШОХЕНМА(Й)ЕР". I was told that in various documents of my family in the beginning of the XXth century two German versions are to be found:

Schochenmeier

and

Schochenmaier.

Theoretically, there could be more:

Schochenmeyer 

Schochenmayer

Schockenmeier

Schockenmaier

Schockenmeyer

Schockenmayer

Schochenmayr

Schochenmair

Schochenmeir

Schockenmayr

Schockenmair

Schockenmeir

Post by post I will present everything I found in the archives, documents, maps and on the Internet. If you have some ideas, your help will be appriciated a lot!!!