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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p>A <b>pen name</b>, also known as a <a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">pseudonym</a>, is a name an author uses in the place of their real name, when they write and publish things. For example, the Brontë sisters (<a href="/wiki/Anne_Bront%C3%AB" title="Anne Brontë">Anne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB" title="Emily Brontë">Emily</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB" title="Charlotte Brontë">Charlotte</a>) who were famous authors in the <a href="/wiki/19th_century" title="19th century">19th century</a> used them, because they feared that people would <a href="https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/make_fun_of" class="extiw" title="wikt:make fun of">make fun of</a> (say bad things about) a book written by a woman. Charles Dodgson, an English math professor took the name <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Carroll" title="Lewis Carroll">Lewis Carroll</a>, when he wrote <a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">fantasy</a> stories. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Erle_Stanley_Gardner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Erle Stanley Gardner (not yet started)">Erle Stanley Gardner</a>, a best-selling American author, wrote books under numerous pseudonyms, including A. A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray and Robert Parr, as well as under his real name. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Famous_examples_of_pen_names">Famous examples of pen names</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pen_name&veaction=edit&section=1" title="Change section: Famous examples of pen names" class="mw-editsection-visualeditor"><span>change</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-divider"> | </span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pen_name&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section's source code: Famous examples of pen names"><span>change source</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecil_Adams&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cecil Adams (not yet started)">Cecil Adams</a> (author of The Straight Dope column–real name unknown)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guillaume_Apollinaire" title="Guillaume Apollinaire">Guillaume Apollinaire</a> (Guillaume Albert Vladimir Apollinaire de Kostrowitzky), 20th century <a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">French</a> <a href="/wiki/Poet" title="Poet">poet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Writer" title="Writer">writer</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Art_critic" title="Art critic">art critic</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tudor_Arghezi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tudor Arghezi (not yet started)">Tudor Arghezi</a> (Ion N. Theodorescu), 20th century <a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romanian</a> poet and children's author</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Bachman" title="Richard Bachman">Richard Bachman</a> (<a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a>) 20th century <a href="/wiki/Horror_fiction" title="Horror fiction">horror</a> <a href="/wiki/Author" title="Author">author</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=W._N._P._Barbellion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="W. N. P. Barbellion (not yet started)">W. N. P. Barbellion</a> (Bruce Frederick Cummings), 20th century diarist</li> <li>'BB' (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Denys_Watkins-Pitchford&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Denys Watkins-Pitchford (not yet started)">Denys Watkins-Pitchford</a>), 20th century <a href="/wiki/Illustrator" title="Illustrator">illustrator</a> and <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_book" class="mw-redirect" title="Children's book">children's book</a> <a href="/wiki/Author" title="Author">author</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beachcomber&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Beachcomber (not yet started)">Beachcomber</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=D.B._Wyndham-Lewis&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="D.B. Wyndham-Lewis (not yet started)">D.B. Wyndham-Lewis</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Bingham_Morton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Bingham Morton (not yet started)">John Bingham Morton</a>), used for the surrealist humorous column "By the Way" in the <a href="/wiki/Daily_Express" title="Daily Express">Daily Express</a></li> <li>Acton Bell, Currer Bell, and Ellis Bell (<a href="/wiki/Anne_Bront%C3%AB" title="Anne Brontë">Anne Brontë</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB" title="Charlotte Brontë">Charlotte Brontë</a>, <a href="/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB" title="Emily Brontë">Emily Brontë</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nicolas_Bourbaki&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nicolas Bourbaki (not yet started)">Nicolas Bourbaki</a> (a group of mainly French 20th-century mathematicians)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kir_Bulychev&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kir Bulychev (not yet started)">Kir Bulychev</a> (Кир Булычёв) Igor Vsevolodovich Mozheyko (И́горь Все́володович Може́йко), 20th century <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russian</a> <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> writer and <a href="/wiki/Historian" title="Historian">historian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Burgess" title="Anthony Burgess">Anthony Burgess</a> (John ['Jack'] Burgess Wilson), 20th century <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">British</a> <a href="/wiki/Writer" title="Writer">writer</a></li> <li>Cassandra (<a href="/w/index.php?title=William_Connor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William Connor (not yet started)">William Connor</a>), 20th century <a href="/wiki/Left-wing" class="mw-redirect" title="Left-wing">left-wing</a> <a href="/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist">journalist</a> for The <a href="/wiki/Daily_Mirror" title="Daily Mirror">Daily Mirror</a></li> <li>Sue Denim (<a href="/wiki/Dav_Pilkey" title="Dav Pilkey">Dav Pilkey</a>), writer and <a href="/wiki/Illustrator" title="Illustrator">illustrator</a> of the popular "Captain Underpants" <a href="/wiki/Children%27s_book" class="mw-redirect" title="Children's book">children's book</a> series (Sue Denim is a parody of the word <a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">pseudonym</a>); also used by <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> writer <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lewis_Shiner&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lewis Shiner (not yet started)">Lewis Shiner</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Carter_Dickson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carter Dickson (not yet started)">Carter Dickson</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Dickson_Carr&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Dickson Carr (not yet started)">John Dickson Carr</a>), 20th century author of <a href="/w/index.php?title=Detective_fiction&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Detective fiction (not yet started)">detective stories</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Isak_Dinesen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Isak Dinesen (not yet started)">Isak Dinesen</a> (Karen Blixen), 20th century <a href="/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark">Danish</a> author of "<i><a href="/wiki/Out_of_Africa" title="Out of Africa">Out of Africa</a></i>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/H.D." title="H.D.">H.D.</a> (Hilda Doolittle), 20th century <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">American</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Imagist&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Imagist (not yet started)">imagist</a> poet, novelist and <a href="/wiki/Memoirs" class="mw-redirect" title="Memoirs">memoirist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Eliot" title="George Eliot">George Eliot</a> (Mary Ann Evans), 19th century <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">English</a> <a href="/wiki/Novelist" class="mw-redirect" title="Novelist">novelist</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paul_Eluard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Paul Eluard (not yet started)">Paul Eluard</a> (Eugène Grindel) 20th century <a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">French</a> <a href="/wiki/Dada" class="mw-redirect" title="Dada">Dada</a> and <a href="/wiki/Surrealist" class="mw-redirect" title="Surrealist">Surrealist</a> poet</li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._S._Forester" title="C. S. Forester">C. S. Forester</a> (Cecil Smith), 20th century writer of the Captain <a href="/w/index.php?title=Horatio_Hornblower&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Horatio Hornblower (not yet started)">Horatio Hornblower</a> novels, "<i><a href="/wiki/The_African_Queen" title="The African Queen">The African Queen</a></i>". and other novels</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anatole_France" title="Anatole France">Anatole France</a> (Jacques Anatole François Thibault), 20th century French author</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pat_Frank&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pat Frank (not yet started)">Pat Frank</a> (Harry Hart Frank), 20th century author of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Apocalyptic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Apocalyptic (not yet started)">apocalyptic</a> novel <a href="/w/index.php?title=Alas,_Babylon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alas, Babylon (not yet started)">Alas, Babylon</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nicci_French&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nicci French (not yet started)">Nicci French</a> (Nicci Gerard and Sean French)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uriah_Fuller" class="mw-redirect" title="Uriah Fuller">Uriah Fuller</a> (<a href="/wiki/Martin_Gardner" title="Martin Gardner">Martin Gardner</a>) wrote <i>Confessions of a Psychic</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Gilbert&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Anthony Gilbert (not yet started)">Anthony Gilbert</a> (Lucy Beatrice Malleson), British author of the Arthur Crook <a href="/wiki/Crime_fiction" title="Crime fiction">crime fiction</a> novels</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Groth" class="mw-redirect" title="George Groth">George Groth</a> was the name under which <a href="/wiki/Martin_Gardner" title="Martin Gardner">Martin Gardner</a> he wrote a negative review of his book, <i>The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-groth_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-groth-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>K. Hardesh (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Clement_Greenberg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Clement Greenberg (not yet started)">Clement Greenberg</a>), 20th century American art critic</li> <li><a href="/wiki/O._Henry" title="O. Henry">O. Henry</a> (William Sidney Porter), American author of <a href="/wiki/Short_stories" class="mw-redirect" title="Short stories">short stories</a> and novels</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herg%C3%A9" title="Hergé">Hergé</a> (Georges Remi), 20th century <a href="/wiki/Belgians" title="Belgians">Belgian</a> <a href="/wiki/Comics" title="Comics">comics</a> writer and <a href="/wiki/Artist" title="Artist">artist</a>, famous worldwide for creating the <a href="/wiki/Tintin" class="mw-redirect" title="Tintin">Tintin</a> series of books</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Iceberg_Slim&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Iceberg Slim (not yet started)">Iceberg Slim</a> Robert Beck, an <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">African American</a> writer.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jinyong&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jinyong (not yet started)">Jinyong</a> or Kam-yung (Louis Cha), 20th century <a href="/wiki/Chinese-language" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese-language">Chinese-language</a> novelist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Jordan" title="Robert Jordan">Robert Jordan</a> (James Oliver Rigney, Jr.), the author of the bestselling <i><a href="/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time" title="The Wheel of Time">The Wheel of Time</a></i> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fantasy_fiction&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fantasy fiction (not yet started)">fantasy</a> series.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Landers" class="mw-redirect" title="Ann Landers">Ann Landers</a> (Esther Pauline Friedman), advice <a href="/wiki/Columnist" class="mw-redirect" title="Columnist">columnist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stan_Lee" title="Stan Lee">Stan Lee</a> (Stanley Martin Lieber), <a href="/wiki/Comic_book" title="Comic book">comic book</a> pioneer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Ouzounian" title="George Ouzounian">Maddox</a> (George Ouzounian), <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Best_Page_in_the_Universe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Best Page in the Universe (not yet started)">The Best Page in the Universe</a></i></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mao_Dun&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mao Dun (not yet started)">Mao Dun</a> (Shen Dehong), 20th century <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">Chinese</a> novelist, cultural <a href="/wiki/Critic" title="Critic">critic</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist">journalist</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Multatuli&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Multatuli (not yet started)">Multatuli</a> (Eduard Douwes Dekker), <a href="/wiki/The_Netherlands" class="mw-redirect" title="The Netherlands">Dutch</a> writer famous for his <a href="/wiki/Satirical" class="mw-redirect" title="Satirical">satirical</a> novel, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Max_Havelaar&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Max Havelaar (not yet started)">Max Havelaar</a> (1860)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Murray_Leinster&action=edit&redlink=1" 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href="/wiki/Poet" title="Poet">poet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Essay" title="Essay">essayist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Translator" title="Translator">translator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pablo_Neruda" title="Pablo Neruda">Pablo Neruda</a> (Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto) 20th century Chilean poet. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Nobel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nobel (not yet started)">Nobel</a> laureate.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abu_Nuwas" title="Abu Nuwas">Abu Nuwas</a> (Hasin ibn Hani al Hakami) 8th century <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" title="Arabic language">Arabic language</a> poet (<a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Persia</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a> (Eric Arthur Blair), 20th century British author and essayist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ouida" title="Ouida">Ouida</a> (Marie Louise de la Ramée), 19th century English novelist</li> <li>William Penn (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Jeremiah_Evarts&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jeremiah Evarts (not yet started)">Jeremiah Evarts</a>), 19th century activist against <a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_removal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Indian removal (not yet started)">Indian removal</a></li> <li>Q (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Arthur_Quiller-Couch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arthur Quiller-Couch (not yet started)">Arthur Quiller-Couch</a>), late 19th and early 20th century British author, poet, and literary <a href="/wiki/Critic" title="Critic">critic</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ellery_Queen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ellery Queen (not yet started)">Ellery Queen</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederic_Dannay&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Frederic Dannay (not yet started)">Frederic Dannay</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Manfred_B._Lee&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manfred B. Lee (not yet started)">Manfred B. Lee</a>), 20th century <a href="/w/index.php?title=Detective_fiction&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Detective fiction (not yet started)">detective fiction</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pauline_R%C3%A9age&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pauline Réage (not yet started)">Pauline Réage</a> (Anne Desclos), 20th century <a href="/wiki/French_people" title="French people">French</a> author and critic who wrote <a href="/w/index.php?title=Story_of_O&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Story of O (not yet started)">Histoire d'O</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Henry_Handel_Richardson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Henry Handel Richardson (not yet started)">Henry Handel Richardson</a> (Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson), early 20th century <a href="/wiki/Australia" title="Australia">Australian</a> author</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Saki&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Saki (not yet started)">Saki</a> (Hector Hugh Munro), early 20th century British <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satirist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Sand" title="George Sand">George Sand</a> (Armandine Lucie Aurore Dupin), 19th century French novelist and early <a href="/wiki/Feminist" class="mw-redirect" title="Feminist">feminist</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sayeh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sayeh (not yet started)">Sayeh</a> (ه‍. ا. سایه) Hushang Ebtehaj, 20th century <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iranian</a> poet (هوشنگ ابتهاج)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dr._Seuss" title="Dr. Seuss">Dr. Seuss</a> (Theodore Seuss Geisel), also used "Theo. 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particle</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By sequence</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_name" class="mw-redirect" title="First name">First name</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middle_name" title="Middle name">Middle name</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surname" class="mw-redirect" title="Surname">Last name</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By trait</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Diminutive" title="Diminutive">Diminutive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epithet" class="mw-redirect" title="Epithet">Epithet</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lists_of_people_by_epithet&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lists of people by epithet (not 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started)">Surname</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sobriquet&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sobriquet (not yet started)">Sobriquet</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Teknonymy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Teknonymy (not yet started)">Teknonymic</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toponymy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Toponymy (not yet started)">Toponymic</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toponymic_surname&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Toponymic surname (not yet started)">Surname</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patrial_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patrial name (not yet started)">Patrial name</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Unisex_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Unisex name (not yet started)">Unisex</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By life situation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Code_name" title="Code name">Code name</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Necronym&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Necronym (not yet started)">Necronym</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Posthumous_name" title="Posthumous name">Posthumous name</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_name" title="Temple name">Temple name</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regnal_name" title="Regnal name">Regnal name</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Aptronym&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Aptronym (not yet started)">Aptronym</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Maiden_and_married_names&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Maiden and married names (not yet started)">Maiden and married names</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Placeholder_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Placeholder name (not yet started)">Placeholder name</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Notname&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Notname (not yet started)">Notname</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Slave_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Slave name (not yet started)">Slave name</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">Pseudonyms</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_pseudonyms&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of pseudonyms (not yet started)">list</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Art_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Art name (not yet started)">Art name</a></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bug%C5%8D&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bugō (not yet started)">Bugō</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nickname" title="Nickname">Nicknames</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lists_of_nicknames&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lists of nicknames (not yet started)">list</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hypocorism&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hypocorism (not yet started)">Hypocorism</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nom_de_guerre&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nom de guerre (not yet started)">Nom de guerre</a></i></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Pen name</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Heteronym_(literature)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Heteronym (literature) (not yet started)">Heteronym</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ring_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Ring name">Ring name</a></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shikona&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shikona (not yet started)">Shikona</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stage_name" title="Stage name">Stage name</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_stage_names&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of stage names (not yet started)">List</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=List_of_one-word_stage_names&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="List of one-word stage names (not yet started)">Mononyms</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Username" class="mw-redirect" title="Username">Username</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By culture<br /><a href="/w/index.php?title=Surnames_by_country&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Surnames by country (not yet started)">Surnames by country</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/East_Asian_cultural_sphere" title="East Asian cultural sphere">East Asian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ainu_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ainu name (not yet started)">Ainu</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Amami_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Amami name (not yet started)">Amami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_name" title="Chinese name">Chinese</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Courtesy_name" title="Courtesy name">Courtesy</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Art_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Art name (not yet started)">Art</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Generation_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Generation name (not yet started)">Generation</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_name" title="Japanese name">Japanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_name" title="Korean name">Korean</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manchu_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manchu name (not yet started)">Manchu</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mongolian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mongolian name (not yet started)">Mongolian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Okinawan_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Okinawan name (not yet started)">Okinawan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Naming_customs_of_Taiwanese_aborigines&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Naming customs of Taiwanese aborigines (not yet started)">Taiwanese aboriginal</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tibetan_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tibetan name (not yet started)">Tibetan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vietnamese_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vietnamese name (not yet started)">Vietnamese</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Muslim_world" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim world">Muslim world</a><br />and Western Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afghan_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Afghan name (not yet started)">Afghan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arabic_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arabic name (not yet started)">Arabic</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Azerbaijani_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Azerbaijani name (not yet started)">Azerbaijani</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bengali_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bengali name (not yet started)">Bengali</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mandaean_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mandaean name (not yet started)">Mandaean</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pakistani_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pakistani name (not yet started)">Pakistani</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pashtun_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pashtun name (not yet started)">Pashtun</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Persian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Persian name (not yet started)">Persian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sindhi_names&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sindhi names (not yet started)">Sindhi</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Somali_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Somali name (not yet started)">Somali</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tatar_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tatar name (not yet started)">Tatar</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Turkish_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Turkish name (not yet started)">Turkish</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Oceania" title="Oceania">Oceania</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Australian_Aboriginal_kinship&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Australian Aboriginal kinship (not yet started)">Australian Aboriginal</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fijian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fijian name (not yet started)">Fijian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hawaiian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hawaiian name (not yet started)">Hawaiian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=M%C4%81ori_naming_customs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Māori naming customs (not yet started)">Māori</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa" title="Sub-Saharan Africa">Sub-Saharan Africa</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Akan_names&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Akan names (not yet started)">Ashanti</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo_naming_customs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo naming customs (not yet started)">Democratic Republic of the Congo</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Naming_conventions_in_Ethiopia_and_Eritrea&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Naming conventions in Ethiopia and Eritrea (not yet started)">Ethiopian and Eritrean</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ewe_language&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ewe language (not yet started)">Ewe</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghanaian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ghanaian name (not yet started)">Ghanaian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Igbo_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Igbo name (not yet started)">Igbo</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yoruba_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yoruba name (not yet started)">Yoruba</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zimbabwean_names&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zimbabwean names (not yet started)">Zimbabwean</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a><br />and <a href="/wiki/Australasia" title="Australasia">Australasia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Albanian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Albanian name (not yet started)">Albanian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Armenian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Armenian name (not yet started)">Armenian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jewish_surname&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jewish surname (not yet started)">Ashkenazi Jewish</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Basque_surnames&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Basque surnames (not yet started)">Basque</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Celtic_onomastics&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Celtic onomastics (not yet started)">Celtic</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cornish_surnames&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cornish surnames (not yet started)">Cornish</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Irish_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Irish name (not yet started)">Irish</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Manx_surnames&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manx surnames (not yet started)">Manx</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Gaelic_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Scottish Gaelic name (not yet started)">Scottish</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Welsh_surnames&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Welsh surnames (not yet started)">Welsh</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Finnish_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Finnish name (not yet started)">Finnish</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=French_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="French name (not yet started)">French</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Georgian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Georgian name (not yet started)">Georgian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Germanic_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Germanic name (not yet started)">Germanic</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dutch_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dutch name (not yet started)">Dutch</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=English_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="English name (not yet started)">English</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Naming_in_the_United_States&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Naming in the United States (not yet started)">American</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=African-American_names&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="African-American names (not yet started)">African-American</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Canadian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Canadian name (not yet started)">Canadian</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hong_Kong_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hong Kong name (not yet started)">Hongkongese</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=German_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="German name (not yet started)">German</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gothic_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gothic name (not yet started)">Gothic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Icelandic_name" title="Icelandic name">Icelandic</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Scandinavian_family_name_etymology&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Scandinavian family name etymology (not yet started)">Scandinavian</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Swedish_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Swedish name (not yet started)">Swedish</a></small></li></ul></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greek_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Greek name (not yet started)">Greek</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ancient_Greek_personal_names&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ancient Greek personal names (not yet started)">Ancient Greek</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Greek_Cypriot_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Greek Cypriot name (not yet started)">Cypriot</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hungarian_names&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hungarian names (not yet started)">Hungarian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Italian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Italian name (not yet started)">Italian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kalmyk_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kalmyk name (not yet started)">Kalmyk</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Latvian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Latvian name (not yet started)">Latvian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lithuanian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lithuanian name (not yet started)">Lithuanian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portuguese_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Portuguese name (not yet started)">Portuguese</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roman_naming_conventions&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Roman naming conventions (not yet started)">Roman</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Praenomen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Praenomen (not yet started)">Praenomen</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nomen_(Roman_name)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nomen (Roman name) (not yet started)">Nomen</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cognomen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cognomen (not yet started)">Cognomen</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Agnomen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Agnomen (not yet started)">Agnomen</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Romanian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Romanian name (not yet started)">Romanian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Slavic_names&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Slavic names (not yet started)">Slavic</a> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bulgarian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bulgarian name (not yet started)">Bulgarian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Croatian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Croatian name (not yet started)">Croatian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Czech_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Czech name (not yet started)">Czech</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eastern_Slavic_naming_customs&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eastern Slavic naming customs (not yet started)">Eastern Slavic</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Belarusian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Belarusian name (not yet started)">Belarusian</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Russian name (not yet started)">Russian</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ukrainian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ukrainian name (not yet started)">Ukrainian</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Macedonian_onomastics&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Macedonian onomastics (not yet started)">Macedonian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Polish_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Polish name (not yet started)">Polish</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Serbian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Serbian name (not yet started)">Serbian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Slovak_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Slovak name (not yet started)">Slovak</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Slavic_name_suffixes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Slavic name suffixes (not yet started)">Suffixes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_naming_customs" title="Spanish naming customs">Spanish</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/w/index.php?title=Naming_customs_of_Hispanic_America&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Naming customs of Hispanic America (not yet started)">Hispanic America</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Yakut_names&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yakut names (not yet 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