compiled by Dr. Eugen Schochenmaier
| International Organisations | Location | Country | Year |
| International Council of Onomastic Sciences | (network) | ——- | 1949 |
| American Name Society | (network) | USA | 1951 |
| Commission of Slavic Onomastics / Komisja Onomastyki Słowiańskiej | International Committee of Slavists | ——- | 1958 |
| Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (aka “Council for Name Studies in Great Britain and Ireland” before 1991) | (network) | UK + Ireland | 1960 |
| Nordic Cooperative Committee for Onomastic Research / NORdiska samarbetskomittén för NAmnforskning | (network) | —— | 1971 |
| Deutsche Gesellschaft für Namenforschung | (network) | Germany | 1990 |
| Netzwerk Interferenz-Onomastik / Network for Intercultural Onomastics | Oxford, Madrid, Trier | ——- | 2003 |
| Laboratorio Internazionale di Onomastica (closed 2021) | University of Rome | Italy | 2006 |
| Department of Slavic Onomastics | Wroclaw University | Poland | 2021 |
| Academic Centres / Units / Departments | Location | Country | Year |
| Section for Name Research / Seksjon for namnegransking | University of Oslo | Norway | 1921 |
| Instituut voor Naamkunde en Dialectologie (aka “Institut d’Onomastique / Instituut voor Naamkunde” before 1975, aka “Instituut voor Vlaamsche Toponymie” before 1947) | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Belgium | 1923 |
| Commissie voor Naamkunde (closed in 1968) | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 1925 |
| Commission Royale de Toponymie et de Dialectologie / Commissie voor Toponymie en Dialectologie | Académie Royale de Belgique | Belgium | 1926 |
| Department of Archives and Research, Onomastic Section | Institute for Language and Folklore, Uppsala | Sweden | 1928 |
| Section de linguistique, d’ethnologie et d’onomastique | Institut grand-ducal | Luxembourg | 1935 |
| Research Unit for Onomastics / Forschungsstelle für Namenkunde | Institute of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Bern | Switzerland | 1938 |
| Nammekundich Wurkforbân / Onomastic Working Group | Fryske Akademie | Netherlands | 1948 |
| Name Research Section (aka “Institut for Navneforskning” before 2003) / Afdeling for Navneforskning | University of Copenhagen | Denmark | 1950 |
| Department of the Slovak language history, onomastics and etymology / Oddelenie dejín slovenčiny, onomastiky a etymológie (Oddelenie dejín slovenčiny pred r. 2010) | Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava | Slovakia | 1951 |
| Board for Onomastics (aka “Inter-Academic Board for Onomastics” before 1991) / Одбор за ономастику | Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade | Serbia | 1952 |
| Department of Onomastics and Etymology (aka “Department of Croatian Language History, Dialectology and Onomastics” before 2005) / Odjel za onomastiku i etimologiju | Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Zagreb | Croatia | 1952 |
| Department of Onomastics (aka “Onomastic Workshop” before 1973) / Pracownia Onomastyki | Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków | Poland | 1953 |
| Namenkundliches Zentrum der Universität Leipzig (aka “Leipziger Namenkundliche Arbeitsgruppe” before) | Universität Leipzig | Germany | 1954 |
| Centre for Dialect and Name Studies / Centrale voor Dialect- en Naamkunde (closed in 1988) | Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen | Netherlands | 1958 |
| Etymological-Onomastic Section / Etimološko-onomastična sekcija | Institute of the Slovenian Language, Liubliana | Slovenia | 1958 |
| Research Centre of the Baltic Languages and Onomastics / Baltų kalbų ir vardyno tyrimų centras (aka “Department of Onomastics” before 2015, aka “Toponymy Group” before 1991) | Institute of the Lithuanian Language | Lithuania | 1958 |
| Ukrainian Onomastic Commission / Українська ономастична комісія | Potebnia Institute of Linguistics | Ukraine | 1959 |
| Department of History of the Ukrainian Language and Onomastics / Відділ історії української мови та ономастики | National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | Ukraine | 1960 |
| Department of Onomastics / Oddělení onomastiky | Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague | Czechia | 1960 |
| Etymology and Onomastics Department / Отдел этимологии и ономастики | Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow | Russia | 1961 |
| Centre d’onomastique | Archives nationales, Paris | France | 1961 |
| Ural School of Onomastics, Etymology and Ethnolinguistics / Уральская школа ономастики, этимологии и этнолингвистики | University of Ekaterinburg | Russia | 1961 |
| Department for Name Studies / Afdeling voor naamkunde (closed in 1999) | University of Groningen | Netherlands | 1962 |
| Centro di ricerca per la storia e l’onomastica ticinese / Forschungsstelle für Tessiner Geschichte und Namenkunde | Universität Zürich | Switzerland | 1964 |
| Abteilung “Deutsch-Slavische Namenforschung” | Universität Leipzig | Germany | 1965 |
| Department of Onomastics / Оддел за ономастика | Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje | North Macedonia | 1966 |
| Departamentul de Dialectologie, geografie lingvistică, fonetică, onomastică (aka “Departamentul de Onomastică” /”Sectorul de Onomastică” before) | Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordanˮ al Academiei Române din București | Romania | 1967 |
| Institut für Österreichische Dialekt- und Namenlexika (aka “Kommission für Mundartkunde und Namenforschung” before 1993) | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna | Austria | 1969 |
| Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research (closed in 2015) | Umeå University | Sweden | 1970 |
| Department of Name Studies (aka “Place-Name Institute of Iceland” before 2006, aka “Place-Name Institute of the National Museum” before 1998 ) | Archive of Icelandic Place Names, Árni Magnússon Institute | Iceland | 1970 |
| Onomastic Research Center (aka “South African Centre of Onomastic Sciences” before 1981) | Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria | Republic of South Africa | 1970 |
| Department of Onomastics / Ономастика бөлімі | National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan | 1970 |
| Names Archive at Institute for the Languages of Finland / Kotimaisten kielten keskus | Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture | Finland | 1976 |
| Onomastics Section / Секция „Ономастика“ | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences | Bulgaria | 1976 |
| Department of Toponymy / Departamentul de toponimie | Institute of Romanian Philology A. Philippide Iaşi | Romania | 1977 |
| Japan Place Name Research Center / 日本地名研究所 | Kawasaki | Japan | 1981 |
| Placenames Research Center | University of Alabama | USA | 1982 |
| Forschungsstelle Siedlungsnamen des Kantons Zürich | Universität Zürich | Switzerland | 1984 |
| Centre of Bulgarian Onomastics “Nikolay Kovachev” / Центърът по българска ономастика “Проф. Николай Ковачев” | University of Veliko Tarnovo | Bulgaria | 1985 |
| Department of the Onomastics / Onomastika şöbəsi | National Academy of Sciences | Azerbaijan | 1987 |
| Forschungsstelle Solothurnisches Orts- und Flurnamenbuch | Universität Basel | Switzerland | 1989 |
| Республиканская ономастическая комиссия (aka “Государственная ономастическая комиссия” before 1997) | Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan | 1990 |
| Institute for Name-Studies (aka “Centre for English Name Studies” before 2002) | University of Nottingham | UK | 1992 |
| Research Group on Onomastics | University of Debrecen | Hungary | 1995 |
| China Institute of Toponymy / 地名研究所成 | Ministry of Civil Affairs | China | 1995 |
| Gabinet d’Onomàstica | Universitat de les Illes Balears | Spain | 1995 |
| Chair of Grammar of Contemporary Polish Language and Onomastics / Zakład Gramatyki Współczesnego Języka Polskiego i Onomastyki | Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań | Poland | 1996 |
| Forschergruppe NAMEN | Universität Regensburg | Germany | 1998 |
| Laboratory of Lexicology and Regional Onomastics / Лаборатория лексикологии и региональной ономастики | Adyghe State University, Maykop | Russia | 1998 |
| Onomastic Studies Unit | University of KwaZulu-Natal | Republic of South Africa | 2000 |
| Centro Studi e Ricerche di Onomastica (aka “Centro studi onomastica piemontese” before 2020) | University of Turin | Italy | 2001 |
| Grupo de investigación DEONOMA | Universidad Complutense de Madrid | Spain | 2004 |
| Department of Onomastics / Névtani Tagozat | Hungarian Linguistic Society | Hungary | 2005 |
| Centre of Onomastics / Centrul de onomastică | Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Baia Mare | Romania | 2009 |
| Research Laboratory «Dagestan Onomastics» / Научно-исследовательская лаборатория «Дагестанская ономастика» | Dagestan State University, Makhachkala | Russia | 2009 |
| Research Group on Hungarian Language History and Toponomastics / Magyar Nyelv- és Névtörténeti Kutatócsoport | Hungarian Academy of Sciences | Hungary | 2013 |
| Digital Laboratory of Toponymy / Laboratorul Digital de Toponimie | Institute of Romanian Philology A. Philippide Iaşi | Romania | 2017 |
| Nəsimi adına Dilçilik İnstitutunda Toponimika sektoru / Department of Toponymy | Institute of Linguistics named after Nasimi, Baku | Azerbaijan | 2020 |
| UNESCO Chair in Inclusive Toponymy / Chaire Unesco en toponymie inclusive «Dénommer le monde» | University of Geneva | Switzerland | 2021 |
| Department of Onomastics / Zakład Onomastyki | University of Rzeszów | Poland | |
| West Polissya Onomastic and Dialectological Center / Західнополіський ономастико-діалектологічний центр | Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University | Ukraine | |
| Research Group for Onomastics | University of Bergen | Norway | |
| Indigenous Toponymy Research Group | Royal Holloway University of London | UK | |
| Toponymic Research Center and Laboratory / 지명 조사 연구 기구 | South Korea |
| Onomastics Societies / Associations | Location / Institute | Country | Year |
| Commission de toponymie (aka “Commission de géographie” before 1977) | Gouvernement du Québec | Canada | 1912 |
| Verband für Orts- und Flurnamenforschung in Bayern (aka “Verband für Flurnamensammlung” before 1977) | München, Bavaria | Germany | 1920 |
| Oficina d’Onomàstica (aka “Oficina de Toponímia i Onomàstica” before 1992) | Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona | Catalonia | 1921 |
| English Place-Name Society | University of Nottingham | England | 1923 |
| South Swedish Placename Society | Swedish National Archive in Lund | Sweden | |
| Place-Name Society of Uppsala / Ortnamnssällskapet i Uppsala | Uppsala | Sweden | 1935 |
| Ulster Place-Name Society | Queen’s University, Belfast | Northern Ireland | 1952 |
| The Placenames Branch | Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media | Republic of Ireland | 1955 |
| Arbeitskreis für Namenforschung | (network) | Germany | 1957 |
| Société Française d’Onomastique | (network) | France | 1960 |
| Slovak Onomastic Commission / Slovenská onomastická komisia | Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava | Slovakia | 1964 |
| Canadian Society for the Study of Names / Société Canadienne d’Onomastique (aka “Canadian Institute of Onomastic Sciences / Institut Canadien des Sciences Onomastiques” before 1975) | (network) | Canada | 1967 |
| Kommission für Mundart- und Namenforschung Westfalens | Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, Münster | Germany | 1972 |
| Limburgian Dialect and Name Society / Vereniging voor Limburgse Dialect- en Naamkunde | Limburg | Belgium/Netherlands | 1975 |
| Komisja Onomastyczna Komitetu Językoznawstwa PAN / Onomastic Commission of the Linguistics Committee | Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa | Poland | 1978 |
| Place Names Society of India | Mysore | India | 1978 |
| Association Bourguignonne de Dialectologie et d’Onomastique (aka “Association Bourguignonne d’Études Linguistiques et Littéraires” since 1999) | Longvic | France | 1979 |
| Societat d’Onomàstica | Barcelona | Spain | 1980 |
| Association Onomastique Grecque | Athens | Greece | 1980 |
| Names Society of Southern Africa | (network) | Republic of South Africa | 1981 |
| Norwegian Society for Name Studies / Norsk Namnelag | (network) | Norway | 1983 |
| Azərbaycan Onomastika Elmi Cəmiyyəti / Azerbaijan Onomastics Scientific Society | Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University | Azerbaijan | 1986 |
| Republican Toponymic Commission / Рэспубліканская тапанімічная камісія | National Academy of Sciences of Belarus | Belarus | 1991 |
| Associazione “Onomastica & Letteratura” | Pisa | Italy | 1994 |
| Scottish Place-Name Society | (network) | Scotland | 1996 |
| Network of Finnish Onomastics | (network) | Finland | 1998 |
| Asociación Galega de Onomástica | Santiago de Compostela | Spain | 1999 |
| Adriatic Centre for Onomastics and Ethnolinguistics (aka “Adriatic Onomastic Research Center” before 2019) / Centar za jadransku onomastiku i etnolingvistiku | University of Zadar | Croatia | 2003 |
| New Society for Applied Toponymy / Neue Gesellschaft für Angewandte Toponymie (closed in 2016) | by Cordula Daus | Germany | 2009 |
| Welsh Place-name Society | (network) | Wales | 2011 |
| Zentrum für Namenforschung | Prof. J. Udolph, Leipzig/Schwanewede | Germany | 2011 |
| Society for the Study of Names in Nigeria | Redeemer’s University | Ede, Nigeria | 2013 |
| Société Basque d’Onomastique / Onomastika Elkartea | (network) | Spain | 2016 |
| New Trends in Nordic Socio-onomastics | (network) | ——– | 2018 |
| Polish Onomastic Society / Polskie Towarzystwo Onomastyczne | Kraków | Poland | 2018 |
| African Neotoponymy Observatory in Network | University of Geneva | Switzerland | 2018 |
| Onomastic Observatory / Observatório onomástico | (network) | Brazil | 2020 |
| Société savante d’onomastique en Algérie | Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle, Oran | Algeria | 2021 |
| People’s Names Research Network (closed in 2024) | (network) | UK | 2021 |
| Union of Onomasts / Ономастар одағы қоғамдық бірлестігі / Общественное объединение “Союз ономастов” | Private Association by Gulnara Bekenova, Astana | Kazakhstan | 2022 |