British Given Names : a selective bibliography



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Pre-Conquest personal names
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Medieval
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Victorian
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- General

  • Baker, Joanna  The worldwide book of names   London : Minerva, 1997
    303p. Isbn- 1861065264

  • Barry, H.  'Computers and research on personal names' Names   43 (1995),315-324

  • Enzo Caffarelli (with Doreen Gerritzen) , "Frequenze onomastiche. I prenomi del 2000: i più diffusi in 40 Paesi del mondo" (The most frequent names in the world at the end of 2nd Millennium), Rivista Italiana di Onomastica, VIIII:2,(2002), 631-710

  • Clark, Cecily  'Personal-Name studies: bringing them to a wider audience'  Nomina 15 (1991-92), 21—34

  • Corkery, J.M.  'Approaches to the study of English forename use'  Nomina   23 (2003), 55-74

  • Cottle, Basil Names Thames & Hudson, 1983
    Reviewed in Nomina 7 (1983)

  • Dunkling, Leslie  Facts on File Dictionary of First Names  New York: Facts on File Publications, 1984.
    Isbn 0871962748  : Previously published as, Everyman's dictionary of first names, 1983

  • Dunkling, Leslie  First names first Sevenoaks: Coronet, 1978.
    Isbn 0340230932 :   Originally published: New York : Universe books ; London : Dent, 1977

  • Dunkling, Leslie  The Guinness book of names
    Reviewed in Nomina 7 (1983)

  • Eshel, A.  'On the frequency distribution of first names'  Names  49-1 (2001), 55-60

  • Galbi, D.   'Long-term trends in the frequency of given names'  Names  (2003)
    Note: also available online at D Galbi's website

  • Hahn, M. W. & Bentley, R. A. 'Drift as a mechanism for cultural change: an example from baby names'  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B
    published online
    Abstract: In a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society Biology Letters (13 June 2003), Matthew Hahn (Duke University) and Bentley tracked the comings and goings of the top 1000 most popular first names for babies (one list for girls’ names, another for boys’) as recorded by the U.S. Social Security Administration for each decade of the 20th century. The authors modelled the comings and goings of popular names by simply simulating what population geneticists call random drift - in their model, people randomly copy existing names from other babies, with some occasionally inventing new names. The model predicts closely how name popularity has been distributed over the last century. Some parents today who invent some original name for their baby could, through simple chance and random copying by others unwittingly be determining the names of thousands of children ten years from now.
    The study has larger implications for how culture changes in general. Social scientists often assume a 'reason' something became popular, such as a special symbolic meaning or function. In many cases, however, things become popular by dumb luck and acquire their meaning afterward.

  • Lieberson, Stanley  A matter of taste :how names, fashions and culture change  Yale University Press, 2000 isbn 0-300-08385-8

  • Lieberson, Stanley and Freda B. Lynn   Popularity as a taste : an application to the naming process  Onoma 38 (2003) : pp 235-276
    Note: Mainly USA, but some graphs of forename turover in Scotland c1950-1990

  • Merry, E. First names : the definitive guide to popular names in England and Wales 1944-1994 and in the regions 1994 London: HMSO, 1995

  • Rattar, W.W.  'Some personal names in our place-names'  New Shetlander,  5 (1947), 8.
    Note covers: 55BC - 1947 in the Shetland Islands

  • Redmond, George   Christian names in local and family history The National Archives, Feb 2004
    -isbn 190336552x
    This sets the background for a local/family historian to study the development/retrenchment of types of forenames, based on a sound statistical footing.

  • Smart, V. 'Personal names in England' in: Name studies : an international handbook of onomastics (3 vols), edited by E. Eichler, G Hilty, H Loffler,H Steger and L Zgusta   Berlin, de Gruyter Vol 1 (1995-1996), 782-786

  • Steel, Donald John   'The descent of Christian names'   Genealogists' Magazine,  14:2 (1962), 34-43.
    Note covers: 600 - 1962

  • Wilson, S.  The means of naming : a social and cultural history of personal naming in western Europe  London: UCL Press, 1998
    The standard monograph

  • Withycombe, E.G.  'Christian names'   Genealogists' Magazine, 10:2 (1947),  41-8.
    Note: covers: 500 - 1947

  • Withycombe, E.G.  The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian names 3rd edn. Oxford, 1977.
    Reviewed in Nomina 3 (1979)

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    - Linguistic/Social aspects

  • Barry, H. and Harper, A.S.  'Feminization of unisex names from 1960 to 1990'   Names   41:4 (Dec 1993),228-238
    Authors abstract: "The evolution of the use of unisex given names was studied in an examination of the frequencies of names given to boys & girls in 1960 & 1990. Data were taken from the electronic data files of the PA State Health Data Center. A total of 33 unisex names, given with substantial frequency to children of both sexes, was identified. An examination of baby name books reveals that most of these unisex names were, prior to 1960, given mostly to boys, whereas in 1990 most of these names were given to girls. The findings support previous findings that names tend to evolve from masculine to unisex to feminine over time"

  • Barry, H. and Harper, A.S.  'Final letter compared with final phoneme in male and female names Names   51:1 (2003),13-34

  • Barry, H. and Harper, A.S.  'Increased choice of female phonetic attributes between first names of boys and girls'  Sex Roles   32 (1995), 809-819

  • Barry, H. and Harper, A.S.  'Phonetic differentiation between first names of boys and girls'
    In: Proceedings of the XIXth International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, Aberdeen , August 4-11, 1996 edited by W.F.H Nicolaisen. Aberdeen, University of Aberdeen

  • Barry,H. and A.S. Harper  'Persistent popularity of male last letter in female first names '  in : A Garland of Names: Selected Papers of the Fortieth Names Institute  ed. W Finke & L Ashley, East Rockaway, NY : Cummings & Hathaway, 2003. viii, 158 pp.

  • Barry,H. and A.S. Harper  'Sex differences in linguistic origins of personal names' in:Names New and Old : Papers of the Names Institute Volume II- Revised 2nd edition, edited by E. Wallace McMullen, Lewiston: Lampeter, E. Mellen Press, 2002 (Isbn 0773475346)

  • Barry,H. and A.S. Harper  'Three last letter identify most female first names '  Psychological Reports   87 (2000), 48-54

  • Brennan,T.  'On the meaning of personal names : a view from cognitive psychology'  Names   48 (2000) , 139-46

  • Crystal, David  The Cambridge encyclopaedia of the English language' Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002
    Note: Section on Names

  • Crystal, David  The stories of English    London : Allen Lane, 2004. - 0713997524
    Note: [Chapter 6] Interlude 6- Lay subsidy dialects pp 140-143 includes map 6.4 -'The distribution of q-, wh-, and w- spellings in personal names in East Midland Lay Subsidy Rolls'

  • Cutler, A.,McQueen, J.M. & Robinson, K.  'Elizabeth and John: sound patterns of men's and women's names'  Journal of Linguistics  26 (1990), 471-482
    Abstract: First names in English resemble the rest of the vocabulary: they tend to be mono- or bisyllabic, and to begin with strong syllables. But the sound patterns of men's and women's first names show systematic differences. Women's names tend to be longer than men's; they are far more likely to begin with an unstressed syllable; and they are more likely to contain the vowel [i]. These asymmetries may reflect the operation of phonetic symbolism via a principle of phonological weight; preferred ordering in conjunctions may also play a role.
    Note: essential to read Carole Hough (2000) as a corollary

  • Duffy, J.C. and Ridinger,B.  ' Stereotyped connotations of masculine and feminine names' Sex Roles  7 (1981), 25-33

  • Hough, Carol   'Towards an explanation of phonetic differentiation in masculine and feminine personal names'  Journal of Linguistics  36 (2000) , 1-11
    Abstract: Recent research has identified characteristic differences between the phonetic structures of names and of ordinary nouns, with particularly distinctive patterns being exhibited by feminine personal names. No explanation has yet been found. This paper suggests that the solution lies not in the English sound system, as has previously been assumed, but in differences between the linguistic origins of the various types of material..

  • Kelly, B. Leben, W. and Cohen, R. 'The meanings of consonants' Lexicon Branding,Inc. 2003
    Note: suggests that obstruents like [g] [b] and [k] are perceived as 'hard' and therefor masculine; whilst in contrast, postulates that sonorants like [l], [n] and [r] are 'soft' and feminine. Application to given names?

  • Lieberson, Stanley and Bell, E.O.  'Children's first names : an empirical study of social taste' American Journal of Sociology  98 (1992), 511-554

  • Mehrabian, A.  'Impressions created by given names' Names  34 (1997) , 19-33

  • Perfors, Amy 'What's in a name? the effect of sound symbolism on perception of facial attractiveness
    Pdf file: poster presentation

  • Slater, A.S. and Feinman, S  'Gender and the phonology of North American first names'   Sex Roles 13 (1985), 429-440




    - Pre-Conquest Personal Names

  • Barley, Nigel 'Perspectives on Anglo-Saxon names' Semiotica 11 (1974), 1-31

  • Beeaff, Diane 'Aelfraed and Haranfot : Anglo-Saxon personal names' History Today 28 (1978) 688-690

  • Briggs, Elizabeth   'Nothing but names: The original core of the Durham Liber Vitae ' in: Rollason, David, et al., Eds. , Durham Liber Vitae and its Context, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (2004)[isbn; 1843830604].

  • Clark, Cecily  'The early personal names of King’s Lynn: an essay in socio-cultural history, Part I — baptismal names ' 
    Note: "An analysis of personal names in terms of pre-Conquest and continental influences

  • Clark, Cecily  'English Personal Names ca 650-1300: spme prosographical bearings ' Medieval Prosopography 8:1 (1987) 31-60
    Note: reprinted in Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales'

  • Cooper, Tracey-Anne  'Basan and Bata: the occupational surnames of two Pre-Conquest monks of Canterbury'
    Online at: http://www.kentarchaeology.ac/articles.asp?PaperID=19

  • Feilitzen, Olof von.  The Pre-Conquest personal-names of Domesday Book  Nomina Germanica, 3, Uppsala, 1937

  • Feilitzen, Olof von   'Notes on some Scandinavian personal names in English 12th-century records' Anthroponymica Suecana 6 (1965), 52-68

  • Feilitzen, Olof von   'The personal names of the Winton Domesday'
     in: Winchester in the early Middle Ages, an Edition and Discussion of the Winton Domesday, edited by Martin Biddle and Frank Barlow, pp143-229, 1976

  • Fellows Jensen, G. Scandinavian personal names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire  Navnestudier, 7, Copenhagen, 1968

  • Insley, John  'Regional variation in Scandinavian personal nomenclature in England' Nomina 3, (1979), 52-60

  • ____  'The Scandinavian Personal Names in the later part of the Durham Liber Vitae ' in: Rollason, David, et al., Eds. , Durham Liber Vitae and its Context, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (2004)[isbn; 1843830604].

  • _____  'The study of Old English personal names and anthroponymic lexica in Person und Name. Methodische Probleme bei der Erstellung eines Personennamenbuches des Frühmittelalters, edited by D Geuenich, W. Harbrichs and J Jarnut  
    Berlin: Walter de Guyter, 2002, pp148-176

  • _____  Scandinavian personal names in Norfolk : a survey based on medieval records and place-names   Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi, 62 (Uppsala, 1994)

  • _____ 'Some Scandinavian personal names in south-west England from post-Conquest records'  Studia Anthroponymica Scandinavica 3 (1985), 23-58

  • Kitson, Peter 'How Anglo-Saxon personal names work'  Nomina  25 (2002), 91-132

  • Parsons, David  'Anna, Dot, Thorir...counting Domesday personal names'  Nomina  25 (2002), 29- 52

  • Redin, M.  Studies on Uncompounded Personal-Names in Old English  Uppsala Universitets Arsskrift, 1919, Uppsala, 1919

  • Searle, W.G. Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum Cambridge, 1897

  • Seltén, B. The Anglo-Saxon heritage in Middle English Personal Names: East Anglia 1100-1399 I, Lund, 1972 46-50
    Note:Cecily Clark comments "takes inadequate account of scribal convention"




    - Medieval

  • Barrow   'Scots in the Durham Liber Vitae ' in: Rollason, David, et al., Eds. , Durham Liber Vitae and its Context, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (2004)[isbn; 1843830604].

  • Bartrum, Peter C. 'Cognomens in Wales in the fifteenth century'. National Library of Wales Journal, 30:2 (1997), 133-6. Note: covers: 1400 - 1500

  • Bartrum, Peter C. 'Personal names in Wales in the fifteenth century'. National Library of Wales Journal, 22:4 (1981-2), 133-6.

  • Clark, Cecily  'Battle c.1110: an anthropologist looks at an Anglo-Norman new town', Proceedings of the Battle conference on Anglo-Norman Studies ,2, 1980 for 1979, 21-41, 168-72

  • _____  'The Liber Vitae of Thorney Abbey and its ‘Catchment Area’'  Nomina 9 (1985), 53—72

  • _____ 'Onomastics', Cambridge History of the English Language, vol. 2: 1066-1476, edited by Norman Blake (1992), pages 542-606

  • _____ 'Socio-economic status and individual identity : essential factors in the analysis of Middle English personal-naming' in:Words, Names and History
    also reprinted in: Naming, Society and Regional Identity edited by D.A. Postles. Leopard's Head press, 2002

  • _____ ''Willemus rex? Vel alius Willelmus?'' Nomina 11, (1987) pp 7-33 Note:Reprinted in Words, Names and History

  • _____ Words, Names and History, Selected Writings of Cecily Clark edited by P.Jackson (Cambridge, 1985)
    Note: The collected writings of the renowned onomast
    Reviewed in Nomina 19 (1996)

  • Dodgson, John McNeal  'Some Domesday Personal-Names, mainly Post-Conquest'  Nomina 9 (1985), 41—52

  • Ekwall, E. Early London personal names (Skrifter utgivna av Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund, 43). Lund, 1947. Note: covers: 1050 - 1300

  • Fellows-Jensen, Gillian  'On the identification of Domesday tenants in Lincolnshire' Nomina  9 (1985), 31—40

  • Fellows-Jensen, Gillian  'The names of the Lincolnshire tenants of the Bishop of Lincoln c 1225'   in Otium et Negotium : Studies in Onamatology and Library Science presented to Olof von Feilitzen edited by Folke Sandgren pp86-95 Norsedt and Söner 1973

  • Forsnner,T.  Continental-Germanic Personal-Names in England in Old and Middle English Times Uppsala, 1916

  • Franklin, Peter ' Normans, Saints and politics : forename-choice among fourteenth-century Gloucestershire peasants' Local Population Studies 36 (1986), 19-26
    reprinted in: 'Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales'

  • Haas, Louis 'Social connections between parents and godparents in late Medieval Yorkshire' Medieval Prosopography 10:1 (Spring 1989), 1-21
    Reprinted in:'Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales' pp159-175

  • Insley, John  'Recent trends in the research into English bynames and surnames : some critical remarks' Studia Neophilologica  65 (1993), 57-71

  • Insley, John  'Some aspects of regional variation in Early Middle English personal nomenclature' in: Studies in Honour of Kenneth Cameron, edited by Thorlac Turville-Petre and Margaret Gelling, pp183-199 (1987)
    Reprinted in:'Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales' pp191-209

  • Insley, John  'The names of the tenants of the Bishop of Ely in 1251: a conflict of onomastic systems' Ortnamnssällskapets i Uppsala Årsskrift (1985), 58-78

  • McClure, Peter  'The interpretation of hypocoristic forms of Middle English baptismal names' Nomina, 21 (1998), 101-31
    Note: covers: 1250 - 1360

  • _____  'The kinship of Jack: I, pet-forms of Middle English personal names with the suffixes --kin, -ke, -man and -cot ' Nomina, 26 (2003), 93-117
    Note: argues that these are a group of Flemish and Franco-Flemish hypocoristic suffixes introduced post-Conquest

  • _____  'The kinship of Jack: II, pet-forms of Middle English personal names with the suffixes --cok, and -cus ' Nomina, 28 (2005), 5-42

  • Moore, John   'Anglo-Norman names recorded in the Durham Liber Vitae ' in: Rollason, David, et al., Eds. , Durham Liber Vitae and its Context, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (2004)[isbn; 1843830604].

  • Morris, David   'The rise of Christian names in the thirteenth century: a case study of the English nobility' Nomina, 28 (2005) 43-54

  • Niles, P. 'Baptism and the naming of children in late medieval England'. Medieval Prosopography, 3:1 (1982), 95-107.
    Reprinted in: 'Studies on the Personal Name in Later Medieval England and Wales' pp147-157
    Note: covers: 1250 - 1500

  • Piper,A.J.   'The Names of the Durham Monks ' in: Rollason, David, et al., Eds. , Durham Liber Vitae and its Context, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (2004)[isbn; 1843830604].

  • Postles, David  'At Sørensen's request : the formation and development of patronyms and metronyms in late medieval Leicestershire and Rutland'.  Nomina  17 (1994), 55-70
    Note: covers: 1318 - 1525

  • _____  'The baptismal name in thirteenth-century England: processes and patterns',  Medieval Prosopography  13 (1992), 1-52

  • _____  'The changing pattern of male forenames in medieval Leicestershire and Rutland to c.1350'  Local Population Studies  51 (1993), 54-61.
    Note: covers 1114 - 1350

  • _____  'Cultures of peasant naming in twelfth-century England'  Medieval Prosopography  18 (1997), 25-54.
    Note: covers 1100-1200

  • _____  'Noms de personnes en langue française dans l'Angleterre du moyen âge',  Le Moyen Age CI (1995), 7-21

  • ____ 'Notions of the family, lordship and the evolution of naming processes in medieval English rural society : a regional example'  Continuity and Change  10 (1995), 169-98.
    Note: covers 1066 - 1365

  • _____  'Personal naming patterns of peasants and burgesses in late medieval England'  Medieval Prosopography  12:1 (1991), 29-56
    Note: covers 1050 - 1500

  • _____  Studies on the personal name in later medieval England and Wales ed. David Postles and Joel Rosenthal
     (Series: Studies in medieval culture : 44)   Medieval Institute Publications, 2006 (Isbn 1-5804402-6-6)
    Contents:
    -Names and naming patterns in medieval England : an introduction / Joel T. Rosenthal
    - English personal names ca. 650-1300 : some prosopographical bearings / Cecily Clark
    - Identity and identification : some recent research into the English medieval "forename" / Dave Postles
    - Women's names in post-conquest England : observations and speculations / Cecily Clark
    - The popularity of late medieval personal names as reflected in English ordination lists, 1350-1540 / Virginia Davis
    - Spritual kinship and the baptismal name in traditional European society / Michael Bennett
    - Baptism and the naming of children in late Medieval England / Philip Niles
    - Social connections between parent and godparents in late Medieval Yorkshire / Louis Haas
    - Normans, saints and politics: forename choice among fourteenth-century Gloucestershire peasants / Peter Franklin
    - Some aspects of regional variation in early middle English personal nomenclature / John Insley
    - Comparing historic name communities in Wales : some approaches and considerations/ Heather Jones
    - Resistant, diffused, or peripheral? : northern personal names to ca. 1250 / Dave Postles
    - The domesday jurors / Chris Lewis
    - Names and ethnicity in Anglo-Norman England / Stephanie Mooers Christelow

  • Redmonds, George 'The history of Joseph' Ancestors 23

  • _____ 'The name game' Ancestors 20
    Note: a consideration of the information first names suggest about "family circumstance, relationships and geographical roots

  • _____ 'Ranking order: popular male names 1377-1381' Ancestors 24 (April 2004)
    Note: considers the wide regional variation in name popularity in the late 14th century

  • Rollason, Lynda   'The late medieval non-monastic entries in the Durham Liber Vitae ' in: Rollason, David, et al., Eds. , Durham Liber Vitae and its Context, Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer (2004)[isbn; 1843830604].

  • Stell, P.M. 'Forenames in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Yorkshire : a study based on a biographical database generated by computer'. Medieval Prosopography, 20 (1999), 95-128.

  • Turville-Petre, Joan. 'Patronymics in the late thirteenth century'. Nomina, 21 (1998), 5-13.




    - Early modern

  • Boulton, Jeremy 'The naming of children in early modern London' in Naming, Society and Regional identity; edited by D Postles. Leopard's Head Press, 2002

  • Morgan, Gerald. 'Welsh names in Welsh wills'. Local Historian, 25:3 (1995), 178-85. ISSN 0024-5585.
    Note: covers: 1680 - 1858

  • Scott-Smith, Daniel. 'Child-naming practices as cultural and familial indicators'. Local Population Studies, 32 (1984), 17-27.

  • Smith-Bannister, Scott. Names and naming patterns in England 1538-1700 Oxford: Clarendon, 1997. xiii, 223 p. ISBN 0198206631.
    Note: covers: 1538 - 1700

  • Whittle, H. M. 'Puritan names in Heathfield and Warbleton (Sussex) Parish Registers' Genealogists Magazine, vol. 28, no. 2 (2004), pp. 54-56




    - Late modern

  • Coates, Richard  'English Proper Names since 1776: a theoretical and historical survey' (1990) Brighton: University of Sussex
    Note:Names(personal and place) since 1776

  • Davies, J.B.  'Christian names in 16th-18th century Glamorgan'   South Wales FHS Journal  4, 1981

  • Dilley, Robert S.  'The personal names of Cumberland, 1740-1890'.  Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, 98 (1998), 263-83.
    Note: covers: 1740 - 1890

  • Lord, Evelyn  'Given names and inheritance : approaches to the study of local identity' in  Naming, Society and Regional identity; edited by D Postles. Leopard's Head Press, 2002

  • O'Neal, Carol   The first names of Brighton and Hove, 1909-1999 ,  Taurean, (2003)




    - Victorian

  • Arkell, Tom. 'Forename frequency in 1851'. Local Population Studies, 47 (1991), 65-76.

  • Schurer, K. & L Dillon 'What's in a name? Victorias in Canada and Great Britain in 1881' Local Population Studies 70 (Spring 2003)




    - Women's names

  • Clark, Cecily   'Women's names in post-conquest England : observations and speculations'   Speculum  53 (1978), 223-51
    Note: covers: 1100 - 1175

  • Morgan, Gerald   'Naming Welsh women'. Nomina, 18 (1995), 119-39.
    Note: covers: 600 - 1900

  • Postles, David   'The distinction of gender? : women's names in the thirteenth century'. Nomina, 19 (1996), 79-89.
    Note: covers 1200 - 1300

  • ______ ''Gender Trouble' (Judith Butler) : Describing English women in the twelth and thirteenth centuries' '. Nomina, 24 (2001), 47-66.
    Note: covers 1100 - 1300

  • Sharpe, Pamela. 'Women's names : some problems for reconstitution analysis'. Local Population Studies, 59 (1997), 60-61.
    Note: covers 1740 - 1805




    - By-names and nicknames

  • Cameron, K.  'Bynames of location in Lincolnshire Subsidy rolls'  Nottingham Medieval Studies, 32 (1988) 156-64

  • Carlsson, S.  Studies on Middle English local bynames in East Anglia  Lund Studies in English, 79, Lund, 1989
    Reviewed in NominaVol 14 (1990-91)

  • _____  'The early personal names of King’s Lynn: an essay in socio- cultural history, Part 2 — bynames ' Nomina 7 (1983), 65-89

  • Chamberlain, D.L.   Welsh nicknames Caernarfon, 1981

  • Clark, Cecily   'The Middle English nickname Kepeharm'  Nomina 5, (1981), 94,

  • _____   'Nickname-creation: some sources of evidence, ‘naive’ memoirs especially'  Nomina. 5, (1981),83—94

  • _____ 'Thoughts on the French connections of Middle-English nicknames' Nomina   2 (1978), 38-44
    Note: discusses the linguistic origin of 'Shakespeare' names i.e. verb+noun compunds

  • Fellows Jensen, Gillian  'On the study of Middle English by-names'   Namn och Bygd  68 (1980). 107-109

  • Hjertstedt, I.  Middle English nicknames in the Lay Subsidy rolls for Warwickshire  Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia, 63. Uppsala, 1987
    Note: reviewed by J. Insley in Studia Neophilologica 62 (1990), pp115-119 and by Cecily Clark in Nomina 13 (1989-90), pp 143-145. Reviews point out that although useful as a repertory of recorded forms, consideration of socio-economic background and psychological motivation is lacking

  • Jönsö, J.  Studies on Middle English nicknames: I -Compounds  Lund Studies in English, 55, Lund, 1979
    Note: reviewed by Cecily Clark in: English Studies ,63, 1982 pp168-170. Reviews point out that although useful as a repertory of recorded forms, consideration of socio-economic background and psychological motivation is lacking

  • McClure, Peter  'The interpretation of Middle English nicknames: a review of Jan Jönsjö, Studies on Middle English Nicknames. 1, Compounds '  Nomina  5, (1981), 95—104

  • _____   'Nicknames and petnames: linguistic forms and social contexts  Nomina  5 (1981), 63—76
    Note: a suggested linguistic structure for 20th century schoolchildren's nicknaming patterns

  • McKinley, Richard  'Medieval Latin translations of English personal bynames: their value for surname history Nomina  14 (1990-91), 1-6

  • Postles, David.  'Bynames of location with the suffix -by revisited'  Nomina 25 (2002), 5-12

  • ____   'Negotiating bynames'  Nomina 27 (2004), 41-70

  • ____   ' 'Nomina Villanorum et Burgensium': Oxfordshire Bynames before c. 1250' Oxoniensia LIV (1989)

  • ____ '"Oneself as another" and Middle English nickname bynames'. Nomina, 22 (1999), 117-32.

  • ____  Talking ballocs : nicknames and English medieval sociolinguistics   Leicester: The author, 2003
    Note: I have learnt more in the 66 pages of this monograph, than in all the other sources on nicknames put together. Excellent onomastic survey

  • Seltén, B.  Early East-Anglian nicknames: Bahuvrihi names  Scripta Minora, 1974-1975, 3, Lund, 1975

  • _____  Early East-Anglian nicknames: 'Shakespeare' names  Scripta Minora Regiae Societatis Humaniorum Litterarum Lundensis, 1968-1969, 3, Lund, 1969

  • Tengvik, G.  Old English Bynames  Nomina Germanica, IV, Uppsala, 1938

  • Von Feilitzen, O.   'The personal names and bynames of the Winton Domesday' ,in  M. Biddle et alii (eds)., Winchester in the Early Middle Ages  Winchester Studies, 1, Oxford, 1976, 143-229