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I have also received help from people who have frequented this website. I would especially like to thank:

• Bjoern Fredrik Meyer from Norway for all of the Scandinavian names
• Costas Skandalis from Athens for the Greek and Latin name corrections
• Noam Hendren from Israel
• Hopalong on A.O.L. for the Slavic names
• Jörg Benscheidt from Germany for all of the variations of George/Jörg
• L. Mulry Tetlow for the information on Moses
• Dr. Denis Constales from Belgium for numerous corrections
• Hormazed Limbuwala for the Persian names
• Hartmut Haberland from Germany for his thoughts on Catherine and Heidrun
• Aki Ozawa in Japan for the information on Japanese names
• Lucjan for the Polish name variants
• Gilbert B. Cote for the notes on the Greek names
• Blair Miles for miscellaneous corrections
• Teuvo for the Finnish names
• Wlodzimierz for Polish names and Slavic name elements
• Wolf-Dieter Schubert for more German names than I know what to do with
• BlessedG for her idea
• Nina M for random corrections
• Faith Rudin for her extremely exhaustive lists
• Anthony Ferry for his thoughts on Irish names
• Ivanka from Hamburg, Germany for her big list of names
• Aleksandra for the Polish names and corrections
• Guido Buldrini for the Italian names
• Christiana for the huge list of names
• Vesa Lehtinen for the huge list of Finnish names
• Pavlos, Nanaea, and Daividh for earning the title OnomaMasters of Behindthename.com!
• Selwyn for the Danish monarchy info, and Selwyn and Phyllis for the Shakespeare info
• Anna Golitsyna for her notes on Russian names
• My friend Marta from Barcelona for the info on Spanish and Catalan names
• Charlotte for the Welsh nature names
• Nanaea for the Esperanto names
• Nanaea for the Gothic names for the random name generator
• Károly Tutajos for many corrections to the Hungarian entries
• Golsa for the list of Iranian names
• Eduardo Porcher for many Portuguese and Armenian names
• Ramona for the list of Romanian names
• Michaela for the Czech name corrections
• Hedwig for the Dutch name corrections
• Elder for his orderly list of missing Portuguese names
• Vasilica for his complete list of Romanian names
• Great 1 for lists of Croatian names
• Zvonimir for various notes on Slavic names
• Kristján for some Icelandic names
• Fredrika from Sweden for corrections
• Berker from Turkey for additions
• Cro Man for his well-organized list of Croatian names
• Tomislav for corrections to the Croatian and Serbian names
• Shingayi for the Shona names
• Matti from Finland for the list of Finnish names
• Araceli for the Galician names
• Bostjan for the fantastic list of Slovenian names
• Carol from Brazil for the Portuguese names and corrections
• Kati for the Finnish names
• Narinoc for the popular Hungarian names
• Gabor K. for the corrections to the Hungarian names
• Sugarcubebabe7 for the many Basque names
• Marjolijn for the Dutch and Frisian names and pronunciations
• Patrick for the Hungarian name help
• Riina from Toronto for the Estonian names
• Miranda, Lala, Chrisell and Mirfak for helping to moderate the message boards!
• Andy ;~) (with the long nose) for notes and clarifications on various names
• Ivayla for several emails re Bulgarian names over the years (and for her helpful website)
• E. MacKenna for the Irish and Welsh names
• Sissi for the Greenlandic names
• Blerta for some Albanian names
• Franc for the scans of the Slovenian name dictionary
• Erika for the list of Estonian names
• Maddy for the Japanese names and meanings
• P. N. Hobma for some missing Dutch and Frisian names
• Tsukiko Takahashi for the Japanese names
• Countless users for attaching helpful comments to the names
• Claudia Segger for help transcribing and explaining ALL the Japanese names!
• Lucille for filling a good part of the submitted names database, and for the Limburgish names!
• X-Mar for beta-testing
• Sanja aka Sofia for the comprehensive lists of Croatian names
• Goricar for the Croatian name notes
• Nikki for the Macedonian names
• Maja for the Serbian name additions
• Maks for sourcing and compiling several popularity lists
• The editors of the submitted names database for molding raw data into onomastic gold!