Names
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Duffy and the devil
A dictionary of pub names
The boy who would not say his name
Indian names in Michigan
Robert des noms propres
A book of the beginnings
Dictionary of translated names and titles
100,000+ baby names
Surnames
BBC pronouncing dictionary of British names
Jones' dictionary of Old Testament proper names
Names
Latin America
Studies in Hebrew proper names
Latin for gardeners
The Oxford names companion
Scotland's place-names
Dictionary of place-names in the British Isles
The place-names of Derbyshire
Brewer's dictionary of names
Family names and family history
Greek and Latin in scientific terminology
African names and naming
Names given by the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians to rivers, streams, places, &c., in the now states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia
Who's who in classical mythology
The concise Oxford dictionary of English place-names
Yorùbá names
The American counties
African ethnics and personal names
The origin of English place-names
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