Editing Onomastics (section)

== Branches ==

* [[Toponymy#Toponomastics|Toponymy]] (or more precisely toponomastics), one of the principal branches of onomastics, is the study of place names.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cacciafoco|first1=Francesco Perono|title=Place Names: Approaches and Perspectives in Toponymy and Toponomastics|last2=Cavallaro|first2=Francesco|year=2023}}</ref>
* [[Anthroponomastics]] is the study of personal names.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bruck|first=Gabriele|date=2009|title=The Anthropology of Names and Naming}}</ref>
* [[Literary onomastics]] is the branch that researches the names in works of literature and other fiction.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Alvarez-Altman|first1=Grace|title=Names in Literature: Essays from Literary Onomastics Studies|last2=Burelbach|first2=Frederick M.|year=1987}}</ref>
* [[Socio-onomastics]] or re-onomastics is the study of names within a society or culture.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ainiala |first1=Terhi|title=Socio-onomastics:The pragmatics of names|last2=Östman|first2=Jan-Ola|year=2017}}</ref>