Edited by Patrick Hanks, Professor, University of the West of England, Richard Coates, Professor, University of the West of England, and Peter McClure, Professor, University of Nottingham

Professor Patrick Hanks holds research professorships at the Bristol Centre for Linguistics in the University of the West of England, and at the Research Institute of Information and Language Processing in the University of Wolverhampton. He is an expert lexicographer, corpus linguist, and onomastician.

Professor Richard Coates is a Professor in Linguistics at the University of the West of England. He is particularly interested in the area where linguistics, history, and geography meet and specializes in onomastics, historical change in northern and western European languages, and dialectology. He is Hon. Director of the Survey of English Place-Names and Vice-President of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences.

Professor Peter McClure is the Honorary Professor of Name-Studies at the Institute for Name-Studies at the University of Nottingham and is an Honorary Research Fellow and former Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature at the University of Hull. He has published widely on the origins and historical implications of English given names and surnames, and on the methodology of anthroponymic research and anthroponymic dictionaries. He is President of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (2014-17), a Vice-President of the English Place-Name Society, and an onomastic consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Project team
Editor-in-chief: Patrick Hanks
Principal investigator: Richard Coates
Principal etymologist: Peter McClure
Research Associates: Paul Cullen, Simon Draper, Harry Parkin, Duncan Probert
Researchers, Irish names: Kay Muhr, Liam Ó hAisibéil
Editorial Research Associate: Kate Hardcastle
Database manager: Adam Rambousek
Project coordinator: Deborah Cole
Editorial Assistant: Jennifer Scherr

Consultants and contributors
Database population: Richard Webber
Census Analysis: Steve Archer
Scottish names: Matthew Hammond, Tom Turpie, Thomas Clancy, Simon Taylor
Welsh names: Prys Morgan
Cornish names: Oliver Padel
Jewish names: Daniel Morgan-Thomas
Indian names: Rocky Miranda
Arabic and Muslim names: James Hodsdon
Chinese names: Horace Chen
Korean names: Gary Mackelprang
Nigerian names: Eunice Fajobi

"This book will stand as a definitive work of reference for many years to come." - John Titford, Family and Community History

"The pedigree of the work is excellent and in keeping with the scholarly reputation of works from Oxford University Press. All three editors are highly regarded experts in the study of names and lexicology. The work is the result of extensive research into family names covering British and Irish family names." - Diana Dixon, Reference Reviews