The American Name Society, founded in 1951, is a learned society

Learned society

A learned society is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline/profession, as well a group of disciplines. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honor conferred by election, as is the case with the oldest learned societies,...

 founded "to promote onomastics

Onomastics

Onomastics or onomatology is the study of proper names of all kinds and the origins of names. The words are from the Greek: "ὀνομαστικός" , "of or belonging to naming" and "ὀνοματολογία" , from "ὄνομα" "name". Toponymy or toponomastics, the study of place names, is one of the principal branches of...

, the study of names and naming practices, both in the United States and abroad [and] to investigate cultural insights, settlement history, and linguistic characteristics revealed in names." Its publications include The Ehrensperger Report and Names: A Journal of Onomastics. Notable members include founding member George R. Stewart

George R. Stewart

George Rippey Stewart was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley...

, members A. Ross Eckler, Jr.

A. Ross Eckler, Jr.

Albert Ross Eckler, Jr. is a logologist and statistician, the son of statistician A. Ross Eckler. He received a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University....

, Fritz L. Kramer (executive secretary-treasurer), and Hubert Blaine Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff, Sr.

Wolfe+585, Senior

Hubert Blaine Wolfe­schlegel­stein­hausen­berger­dorff, Sr. is the short name of a Philadelphian typesetter, who has the longest personal name ever used. "585" represents the number of additional letters in his full surname...