CAROLINE WAERZEGGERS is Professor of Assyriology at Leiden University, specializing in the social and cultural history of Babylonia in the first millennium BCE. Together with M. M. Groß she directs Prosobab, an online prosopography of Babylonia (620–330 BCE). MELANIE M. GROß is an Assyriologist specialising in the socio-economic history of first millennium BCE Mesopotamia. She recently published the monograph At the Heart of an Empire: The Royal Household in the Neo-Assyrian period (2020) and is currently working on a monograph about traders' archives from Late Babylonian Sippar. Together with C. Waerzeggers she directs Prosobab, an online prosopography of Babylonia (620–330 BCE).

• Introduction; Part I. Babylonian Names: 1. Social aspects of Babylonian names Francis Joannès; 2. Babylonian male names Julia Gießler; 3. Babylonian female names Laura Cousin and Yoko Watai; 4. Babylonian family names John Nielsen; 5. Names of officials Beamtennamen Michael Jursa; 6. Reading neo Babylonian names Cornell Thissen; Part II. Non-Babylonian Names: 7. Assyrian names Heather D. Baker; 8. Aramaic names Rieneke Sonnevelt; 9. Hebrew names Kathleen Abraham; 10. Phoenician and related Canaanite names Ran Zadok; 11. Arabian names Ahmad Al-Jallad; 12. Egyptian names Steffie Van Gompel; 13. Anatolian names Zsolt Simon; 14. Greek names Paola Corò; 15. Old Iranian names Jan Tavernier; 16. Elamite names Elynn Gorris; 17. Sumerian names Uri Gabbay; 18. Residual, unaffiliated, and unexplained names Ran Zadok.