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 |
| Workshop on Slavic Onomastics / Pracowna Onomastyki Słowiańskiej | 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 |
| Ständiger Ausschuss für Geographische Namen (StAGN) | Institut für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg | Germany | 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) (closed) | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna | Austria | 1969 |
| Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Kartographische Ortsnamenkunde (AKO) | Österreichische Geographische Gesellschaft, Vienna | Austria | 1969 |
| Toponymic Laboratory | Tbilisi State University | Georgia | 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 |
| Department “History of Geographical Thought and Toponymy” (aka Toponymy Department before 1991) / Coğrafi fikir tarixi və toponimika | Institute of Geography at the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan | 1973 |
| 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 |
| Educational and Methodological Toponymic Laboratory / Учебно-методическая топонимическая лаборатория | Ural Federal University | Russia | 1983 |
| 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 |
| Laboratory of Toponymy | Latvian Geospatial Information Agency | Latvia | 1994 |
| 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 |
| Icelandic Onomastics Society / Nafnfræðifélagiðg Íslands | The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Reykjavík | Iceland | 2000 |
| 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 Toponymy of Western Azerbaijan and Karabakh | Nasimi Institute of Linguistics, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) | Azerbaijan | 2023 |
| 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 | |
| Scientific-Research Center of Georgian Onomastics | Tbilisi State University | Georgia | |
| 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 |
| Nimiarkisto (Name Archive) (before 1994 aka “Nimitoimisto” (Name Office), before 1976 aka “Suomen nimiarkiston säätiö” (Name Archive Foundation), before 1967 aka “Sanakirjasäätiön nimistöjaosto” (Names Division of the Dictionary Foundation), before 1959 aka “Sanakirjasäätiön paikannimijaosto” (Place‑Name Subcommittee of the Dictionary Foundation), before 1951 “Tieteellisten seurain paikannimitoimikunta” (Commission of Scientific Societies on Place Names)) | Helsinki | Finland | 1915 |
| 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 |
| Отдел географических названий и картографической научной информации | ФГБУ «Центр геодезии, картографии и ИПД» | Russia | 1971 |
| 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 |
| Toponymic Laboratory | National Center of Geoinformatics and Cadastre | Uzbekistan | 1997 |
| Network of Finnish Onomastics | (network) | Finland | 1998 |
| Asociación Galega de Onomástica | Santiago de Compostela | Spain | 1999 |
| Scientific school “Actual problems of onomastics” (Віцебская навуковая школа “Актуальныя праблемы анамастыкі”) | Vitebsk State University, Vitebesk | Belarus | 2001 |
| 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 |
| Geographical Names Department | General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information | Saudi Arabia | 2014 |
| 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 |
| Philippine Toponymy Society (Samahang Pantoponima ng Pilipinas) | University of the Philippines | Philippines | 2020 |
| Société savante d’onomastique en Algérie | Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle, Oran | Algeria | 2021 |
| International Network for Personal Names Research (INPNR) (aka People’s Names Research Network (PNRN) before 2024) | (network) | UK | 2021 |
| Union of Onomasts / Ономастар одағы қоғамдық бірлестігі / Общественное объединение “Союз ономастов” | Private Association by Gulnara Bekenova, Astana | Kazakhstan | 2022 |