Reach out to your local name society!
International
Africa
- Ghana: Ghana Place Names Research Project
- Southern Africa: Names Society of Southern Africa
Asia
North America
Canada
- Canadian Society for the Study of Names
- Canadian Geographical Names Database
- Alberta: Alberta’s Geographical Names
- British Columbia: British Columbia’s Geographical Names
- Manitoba: Manitoba Geographical Names Program
- New Brunswick: Service de toponymie du Nouveau-Brunswick
- Nova Scotia: Nova Scotia’s Geographical Names
- Prince Edward Island: Prince Edward Island’s Place Finder
- Prince Edward Island: Geographical Names of Prince Edward Island
- Quebec: Commission de toponymie du Québec
- Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Geographic Names
- Yukon: Yukon Geographical Place Names Board
United States
- Council of Geographic Names Authorities (COGNA)
- Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
- United States Board on Geographic Names
South America
Europe
- NORNA
- Gazetteer of British Place Names
- The Permanent Committee on Geographical Names for British Official Use (PCGN)
- Austria: Working Group for the Austrian Cartographic Place Names
- Denmark: Norden Division UNGEN
- Denmark: The Names Research Section of the Department of Scandinavian Research
- England: Institute of Name Studies
- England: Key to English Place Names
- England: The English Place Names Society
- England and Ireland: Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
- Estonia: Place Names Database of Estonia
- Finland: The Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
- France : Société Française d’Onomastique
- Germany: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Namenforschung
- Germany: Onomastik Namen und Namensbedeutung
- Germany: Zentrum für Namenforschung
- Germany: Forschergruppe NAMEN (Universität Regensburg)
- Greece: Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
- Greenland: Place Names Committee
- Greenland: Personal Names Committee
- Hungary: The Onomastic Department of the Society of Hungarian Linguistics
- Iceland: Department of Names
- Italy: Centro Studi di Onomastica Piemontese
- Italy: Il Nome nel testo
- Italy: Onomastica e Letteratura
- Italy: Rivista Italiana di Onomastica
- Ireland: Historical Dictionary of Irish Placenames
- Ireland: Placenames Database of Ireland
- Ireland: Ulster Place-Name Society
- Lithuania: Dept of Onomastics Lithuania
- Lithuania: Institute of the Lithuanian Language
- Netherlands: Meertens Instituut
- Norway: Norwegian Name Association
- Norway: Norwegian Farm Names
- Poland: Commission on Standardization of Geographical Names Outside of the Republic of Poland (KSNG)
- Scotland: Scottish Place Name Society
- Spain/Portugal: Asociacion Gelaga de Onomastica
- Sweden: Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore
- Switzerland: Ortsnamen
- Switzerland: Ortsnamenforschung BS
- Wales: Welsh Place Name Society
Australia
- Australian National Placenames Survey
- Geoscience Australia: Place Name Search
- Geographical Names Board of New South Wales
- Committee for Geographical Names of Australasia
- Aboriginal Place Names Around Sydney Harbour
- Nomenclature Board of Tasmania
- New Zealand: New Zealand Geographic Place Names Database