Onomastics

Onomastics or onomatology is the examine of a orthonym is the proper hit of the object in question, the object of onomastic study.

Onomastics can be helpful in data mining, with applications such as named-entity recognition, or recognition of the origin of names. It has also been used in historical research to identify ethnic minorities within wider populations.

Etymology

Onomastics originates from the Greek onomastikós ὀνομαστικός, 'of or belonging to naming', itself derived from ónoma ὄνομα, 'name'.