onomastics

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But sociologists and experts in onomastics, the study of names, said the diminishment of nicknames is not exclusive to famous athletes.

From New York Times • May 10, 2011

We are as yet so imperfectly acquainted with the onomastics of the nations surrounding the Semites that it is hazardous to attempt to locate these people.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)