Naming and Necessity

Naming and Necessity - philosophy book by Saul Kripke. This book is the 9416^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Naming and Necessity” in English Wikipedia has 28.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 9 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Naming and Necessity”, its content was written by 65 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 123 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Naming and Necessity is on the 9416^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 145 times in English Wikipedia and cited 204 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #95276 in July 2011
• Global: #89619 in December 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #71540 in June 2024
• Global: #120215 in June 2024

There are 8 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Naming and Necessity		28.2806
2	Korean (ko) 이름과 필연		22.2043
3	Turkish (tr) Adlandırma ve Zorunluluk		20.7122
4	German (de) Name und Notwendigkeit		11.1982
5	Portuguese (pt) O Nomear e a Necessidade		10.6657
6	Persian (fa) نام‌گذاری و ضرورت		10.4671
7	Spanish (es) El nombrar y la necesidad		9.5348
8	Japanese (ja) 名指しと必然性		1.175

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Naming and Necessity" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Naming and Necessity		410 224
2	German (de) Name und Notwendigkeit		49 009
3	Japanese (ja) 名指しと必然性		42 626
4	Spanish (es) El nombrar y la necesidad		14 631
5	Portuguese (pt) O Nomear e a Necessidade		6 153
6	Persian (fa) نام‌گذاری و ضرورت		4 229
7	Korean (ko) 이름과 필연		636
8	Turkish (tr) Adlandırma ve Zorunluluk		523

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Naming and Necessity" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Naming and Necessity		2 752
2	Japanese (ja) 名指しと必然性		334
3	German (de) Name und Notwendigkeit		123
4	Spanish (es) El nombrar y la necesidad		113
5	Portuguese (pt) O Nomear e a Necessidade		50
6	Turkish (tr) Adlandırma ve Zorunluluk		31
7	Korean (ko) 이름과 필연		15
8	Persian (fa) نام‌گذاری و ضرورت		14

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Naming and Necessity" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Naming and Necessity		65
2	German (de) Name und Notwendigkeit		30
3	Japanese (ja) 名指しと必然性		10
4	Persian (fa) نام‌گذاری و ضرورت		7
5	Portuguese (pt) O Nomear e a Necessidade		5
6	Spanish (es) El nombrar y la necesidad		4
7	Turkish (tr) Adlandırma ve Zorunluluk		2
8	Korean (ko) 이름과 필연		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Naming and Necessity" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Name und Notwendigkeit		0
2	English (en) Naming and Necessity		0
3	Spanish (es) El nombrar y la necesidad		0
4	Persian (fa) نام‌گذاری و ضرورت		0
5	Japanese (ja) 名指しと必然性		0
6	Korean (ko) 이름과 필연		0
7	Portuguese (pt) O Nomear e a Necessidade		0
8	Turkish (tr) Adlandırma ve Zorunluluk		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Naming and Necessity" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Naming and Necessity		145
2	German (de) Name und Notwendigkeit		16
3	Japanese (ja) 名指しと必然性		13
4	Portuguese (pt) O Nomear e a Necessidade		11
5	Persian (fa) نام‌گذاری و ضرورت		8
6	Spanish (es) El nombrar y la necesidad		7
7	Korean (ko) 이름과 필연		3
8	Turkish (tr) Adlandırma ve Zorunluluk		1

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#	Language	Value
de	German Name und Notwendigkeit
en	English Naming and Necessity
es	Spanish El nombrar y la necesidad
fa	Persian نام‌گذاری و ضرورت
ja	Japanese 名指しと必然性
ko	Korean 이름과 필연
pt	Portuguese O Nomear e a Necessidade
tr	Turkish Adlandırma ve Zorunluluk

Best Rank

English: #71540 06.2024

Global: #120215 06.2024

Best Rank

English: #95276 07.2011

Global: #89619 12.2015

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