Concepedia

Name Transmission

Name Transmission is a theoretical construct in Old Norse onomastics that identifies the systematic processes and sociocultural mechanisms through which personal names are preserved, modified, and passed across generations within kinship groups or societal structures.

16

Publications

878

Citations

30

Authors

27

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

1

Parents

Publications

16

Drift as a mechanism for cultural change: an example from baby names

Matthew W. Hahn, R. Alexander Bentley · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2003 · 224 citations · Full text

, , +17

Vertical transmission of culture and the distribution of family names

Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications · 2001 · 112 citations · Full text

, , +9

Vertical transmission of culture and the distribution of family names.

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · 2001 · 94 citations

, , +9

Question-order effects in social network name generators

James E. Pustejovsky, James P. Spillane · Social Networks · 2009 · 84 citations

, , +7

Central African Names and African-American Naming Patterns

John Thornton · The William and Mary Quarterly · 1993 · 81 citations

, , +16

1–5 of 16

Authors

30

  1. YE
    Yosi E. Maruvka

    Bar-Ilan University, Israel

    1 publications · 17 citations

    1

    h-index

  2. JT
    John Thornton

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, United States

    1 publications · 81 citations

    1

    h-index

  3. YA
    Yann Algan

    Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France

    1 publications · 43 citations

    1

    h-index

  4. DD
    Dan Diaz Vidal

    Wabash College, United States

    1 publications · 65 citations

    1

    h-index

  5. BZ
    Benjamin Z. Kedar

    Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

    1 publications · 13 citations

    1

    h-index

1–5 of 30

Institutions

27

  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    43 citations

  2. Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    86 citations

  3. Bariloche Atomic Centre

    Bariloche, Argentina

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    52 citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  5. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    Boston, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  6. University of Glasgow

    Glasgow, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    38 citations

  7. IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

    Bonn, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    43 citations

  8. Institut des Sciences Biologiques

    Ivry-sur-Seine, France

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    43 citations

1–8 of 27

Venues

  1. Viator

    1 publications · 13 citations

    1

    h-index

  2. Journal of Theoretical Biology

    1 publications · 52 citations

    1

    h-index

  3. Anthropological Quarterly

    AQ · 1 publications · 11 citations

    1

    h-index

  4. American Anthropologist

    1 publications · 57 citations

    1

    h-index

  5. The William and Mary Quarterly

    1 publications · 81 citations

    1

    h-index

1–5