Anthroponym
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An anthroponym (Gk. anthropos, 'human', + onuma, 'name') is the name of a human being.
Anthroponyms often preserve lexical elements that have dropped out of the standard lexicon of a language. For example, the English name Fishburn preserves -burn, from an older bourn, an Anglo-Saxon word meaning "brook", which has dropped out of standard English usage.
Anthroponyms also easily pass from the language of origin into other, often unrelated languages.
