Does Google serve as a model for using place names? by Gábor Gercsák, Gábor Mikesy

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A Réka név választása mögött meghúzódó motivációk by Réka Kocsis

“…The name became a part of the Hungarian name stock approximately 60 years ago as a revived historical name and in 2005 it was the second most often chosen female name. …”
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Cara Kato: lettere dell’attesa e della malattia by Luciano Zampese

“…Kato is the Hungarian name of Katia Bleier, Luigi Meneghello’s wife. …”
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Fordítói kihívások és megoldások a magyar nyelvű Harry Potter-kötetekben by Réka Hertelendy

“…The author first presents the English names, establishing a basis for an account of the Hungarian name forms. Then the limits of translation are explored with regard to such questions as which names in literary texts can be translated and to what extent, and which characteristics of the name forms were respected by the translator in this particular case: those aspects that turned out to be inevitable are consequently listed. …”
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Névadás és névhasználat a németországi magyar szórványban by Márta Illés-Molnár

“…Hungarian-sounding names and names of Hungarian origin; 2. one Hungarian-sounding or Hungarian name out of two first names; 3. (international) names of foreign origin which are popular in Hungary as well; 4. names of German or other (non-Hungarian) origin. …”
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A „Magyar helységnév-azonosító szótár” elkészítésének szempontjai és problémái by György Lelkes

“…The main goal of the author’s nearly 25 years of research has been to collect and identify all the historical place names and the names of castles in historical Hungary, including all the old, new, foreign and Hungarian name variations. The main text was based on the 1913 gazetteer, but in addition, the author considered all the onomastic variations of the names. …”
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Migráns gyermekek névhasználata by Judit Kecskés

“…This research proves that the Hungarian name order (family name + given name) is extremely influential today and shows no sign of ethnic dependence in administrative or school communication. …”
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Bewegte Eigennamen. Namenintegration und Namentranslation im Sprachenpaar Deutsch-Ungarisch [Mozgalmas nevek. Névintegráció és névközvetítés német–magyar nyelvpárban] by Anikó Szilágyi-Kósa

“…Integration of names and German-Hungarian name translation. A summary of a habilitation dissertation After a theoretical introduction, some processes of Hungarian-German (spontaneous) name integration are presented on the basis of German settlement names and microtoponyms in Hungary, and changes in Hungarian surnames in Germany and German surnames in Hungary. …”
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A történeti személynévföldrajz mint a nyelvföldrajz egyik kutatási területe I. by János N. Fodor

“…The paper first outlines the history of previous Hungarian name geographical research, focusing on terminological questions. …”
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The Activities of the Committee for the Preservation of Military Traditions from Turda (THHB) by Cech Vilmos, Józsa István Lajos, Kékkői Károly

“…Among other things, the aim of establishing the Committee was to discover the identity of the Hungarian soldiers that died in action in the fall of 1944 in Torda (in Romanian: Turda: in the followings, we will use the traditionally Hungarian name of the town: Torda) and its surroundings, find the location where they were buried, and erect a worthy monument to their memory. …”
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A Tihanyi alapítólevél személynevei III. by Rudolf Szentgyörgyi

“…A comparison of the two subtypes reveals a minor distinction: while suffixless toponyms derived from the name of a patron saint, referring to spiritual ownership, can be found in several other languages, suffixless place names indicating real, factual possession indicate characteristically Hungarian name giving practices. The early name stock of the charter also attests that the practice of giving suffixless toponyms indicating possession can be traced to previous name giving strategies in the Hungarian language, thus its origins are not in the spread of the systematic use of place names referring to the patron saint of the settlement. …”
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“Proto-Uralic” *waśke ‘metal, (? copper); decoration’ and Its “Derivatives” in the Permian and Ugrian Languages by Vladimir Vladimirovich Napolskikh

“…The names of tin / lead in the Permian and Mansi languages (Perm *os-veś ~ Mansi *ǟϑ-wes) are also etymologically unrelated to either the fictitious PU *waśke or the Permian-Hungarian name of silver, but represent a common innovation, where the second component is Proto-Perm *veś ‘non-ferrous metal; metal decoration’, and the first component is a color designation (? …”
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A határon túli vasútállomások neve a vasúti utastájékoztatásban. [Names for railway stations beyond the borders of Hungary in information services for railway passengers] by Perger, Imre

“…This paper presents the problems in identifying the contemporary Hungarian names for railway stations in the Carpathian Basin that formerly were known only by their Hungarian names. …”
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A határon túli vasútállomások neve a vasúti utastájékoztatásban by Imre Perger

“… Names for railway stations beyond the borders of Hungary in information services for railway passengers     This paper presents the problems in identifying the contemporary Hungarian names for railway stations in the Carpathian Basin that formerly were known only by their Hungarian names. …”
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Magyarfalu-tól Csángliá-ig by Csanád Bodó

“…Ideologies behind the use of Hungarian names indicating places in Moldavia     The use of Hungarian names to indicate places in Moldavia is quite varied. …”
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Víznevekből metonimikusan keletkezett magyar településnevek by Ferenc Bíró

“… Hungarian names of settlements developed from hydronyms via metonymy   The Hungarian names of settlements in the Carpathian Basin involved in this analysis form a homogeneous group from several aspects. …”
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Magyar tónevek angol fordítása [English translations of Hungarian lake names] by Gercsák, Gábor

“…Finally, the author proposes that the English standardized equivalents of the Hungarian names for lakes should be used more consistently.…”
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Személynevek és földrajzi nevek A Pál utcai fiúk fordításaiban by Anna Sasvári

“…It examines the extent to which the target language texts retain or domesticate the Hungarian names and explores the implications of these strategies. …”
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Magyar tónevek angol fordítása by Gábor Gercsák

“…Finally, the author proposes that the English standardized equivalents of the Hungarian names for lakes should be used more consistently. …”
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Beregvidék by Zsolt Sebestyén

“…The name fits into the system of Hungarian names of geographical regions, despite its unique feature of having a name of a county as anterior constituent. …”
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