Onomastics is interesting!

Translated from ancient Greek, onomastics means "the art of giving names." Onomastics is a branch of linguistics that studies proper names, the history of their origin and transformation as a result of long-term use in the source language or in connection with borrowing into other languages.
Onomastics has a number of sections that are traditionally distinguished in accordance with the categories of proper names, in accordance with the nature of the objects called: toponymy studies the proper names of geographical objects; anthroponymy studies the proper names of people; cosmonymy analyzes the names of zones of outer space; zoonymy deals with the proper names of animals, their nicknames; ethnonymy is a section of onomastics that studies the origin and functioning ethnonyms - names of nations, peoples, nationalities, etc.
For those who are interested in this topic, the Central City Library named after N. V. Gogol will select the appropriate literature, according to which you will be able to significantly expand your knowledge of the science of onomastics.