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Anthroponymy is the study of personal names—given names and surnames—and their origins, meanings, and social uses. The spelling "anthroponymysz" is not widely recognized in standard reference works and is likely a nonstandard variant of anthroponymy. The field is a subdiscipline of onomastics and intersects linguistics, history, and anthropology.

Scholars examine how names are formed, transmitted, and transformed across generations and cultures. Core concerns include etymology, semantic meaning, phonology, and the way names encode social information such as lineage, religion, ethnicity, gender norms, and status. Naming practices vary widely, with categories such as given names, surnames, patronymics, matronymics, and toponymic or descriptive surnames.

Across societies, factors like migration, colonization, religion, and state policy shape name usage. Patronymic and matronymic systems, surname reforms, and anglicization or transliteration of non-Latin scripts influence both spelling and pronunciation. Modern naming trends show increasing cross-cultural mixing and occasional shifts in gender associations or legal requirements for names.

Methodologically, anthroponymic research relies on birth, baptismal, civil, and census records, linguistic corpora, surveys, and specialized dictionaries. Digital databases and large-scale name lists enable quantitative analyses of frequency, distribution, and change over time, as well as qualitative studies of meaning and symbolism.

Applications include historical and genealogical research, sociolinguistics, anthropology, and the development of naming policies in education, law, and immigration. The field also raises ethical considerations regarding privacy and the respectful handling of personal data in research.