Sources Used

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Name Books

Ahmed, Salahuddin: A Dictionary of Muslim Names © 1999 Salahuddin Ahmed
Cottle, Basil: Dictionary of Surnames © 1967 Basil Cottle
Evans, Cleveland Kent: The Great Big Book of Baby Names © 2006 Publications International
Flanagan, Laurence: Favourite Irish Names for Children © 1993 Laurence Flanagan
Förstemann, Ernst: Altdeutsches Namenbuch © 1900
Gandhi, Maneka: Hindu Names © 1989 Maneka Gandhi
Hanks, Patrick and Flavia Hodges: A Dictionary of First Names © 1990 Oxford University Press
Hanks, Patrick and Flavia Hodges: A Dictionary of Surnames © 1988 Oxford University Press
Pickering, David: The Penguin Dictionary of First Names © 1999 David Pickering
Reaney, P. H. and R. M. Wilson: Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames © 2005 University of Sheffield
Withycombe, E. G.: The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names © 1948 Oxford University Press

General Books

Ben-Yehuda, Ehud and David Weinstein: Ben-Yehuda's Pocket English/Hebrew Dictionary © 1964 Ehud Ben-Yehuda and Dora Ben-Yehuda
Cotterell, Arthur and Rachel Storm: Ultimate Encyclopedia of Classical Mythology © 1999 Anness Publishing Ltd
Derksen, Rick: Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon © 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV
Dixon-Kennedy, Mike: Celtic Myth & Legend © 1996 Mike Dixon-Kennedy
Kohlenberger III, John R.: NIV Compact Nave's Topical Bible © 1993 John R. Kohlenberger III
MacKillop, James: Dictionary of Celtic Mythology © 1998 James MacKillop
Oxford Study Bible: © 1992 Oxford University Press
Smith, William: The Wordsworth Classical Dictionary © 1996 Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Turner, Patricia and Charles Russell Coulter: Dictionary of Ancient Dieties © 2000 Patricia Turner and Charles Russell Coulter
Websters Dictionary: © 1994 Merriam-Webster
Wehr, Hans: A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic © 1994 Otto Harrassowitz
Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: © 1970 Cassell & Co. Ltd

Websites

People

I have also received help from the thousands of 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!