onomastician

noun

1. A person who studies onomastics; one who studies or researches names.

   “The semantics of names vs. the semantics of words has been the most attractive and active field of inquiry in onomastics, investigating a large cultural variety of names and their embeddedness in many different languages. It is not surprising therefore that the onomastician’s closest ally is the lexicologist; the student of names is most easily understood by the student of words.”

   “As an onomastician, I take it to be axiomatic that name choice in a great author’s works is a highly controlled and deliberate act.”

   “What is a mere layman doing amongst people talking about such a specialised subject. Shouldn’t the organisers have invited our only onomastician to give this keynote?”