Basics
Title: Oxford Dictionary of First Names
Subtitle: Ideal for parents-to-be and family historians
Authors: Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1990,2003
Language: English
Pages: 443
ISBN: 0-19-860764-4
Nordic Names shortcut: OXF
Index of Contents
- Introduction
- Scope of the work
- The set of conventional given names
- Given names in use over the centuries
- Biblical names
- Saints' names
- Names of classical antiquity
- Local cults and patron Saints
- Names associated with particular religious denominations
- Royal and aristocratic names
- The Celtic tradition
- The influence of literature, film, and popular culture
- Surnames as given names
- Other sources of given names
- Masculine and feminine
- Naming practices in different cultures
- English coinages since the 17th century
- Modern given names in America
- Black names
- Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
- French names
- Italian names
- Names in the Iberian peninsula
- German names
- Names in the Netherlands and Belgium
- Scandinavian names
- Russian names
- Polish names
- Czech names
- Hungarian names
- Romanian names
- Modern Jewish names
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- A Dictionary of First Names
- Supplement 1: Common Names in the Arab World (Mona Baker)
- Supplement 2: Common Names of the Indian Subcontinent (Ramesh Krishnamurthy)