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Anthropological Linguistics
An academic journal. Among the subjects it covers, onomastic studies.
http://www.indiana.edu/~anthling/geninfo.html

Scott Childers: Onomastics Resources
A personal page that is intended to be an annotated bibliography of sources for the study of names.
http://www.mindspring.com/~childers1/names.htm

American Name Society
Promote onomastics, the study of names and naming practices, both in the United States and abroad. Seeks to find out what really is in a name, and to investigate cultural insights, settlement history, and linguistic characteristics revealed in names. Site includes membership and publication informat ion.
http://www.wtsn.binghamton.edu/ANS/

Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
This project is part of Oxford University, under the aegis of the Board of Literae Humaniores. The purpose is to collect and publish with documentation all known ancient Greek personal names (including non-Greek names recorded in Greek, and Greek names in Latin).
http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/