Proper noun

Quality:

Proper noun - noun (or noun phrase) that in its primary application refers to a unique entity or instance; the first letter is capitalized in difference to a common noun. Article “Proper noun” in Simple English Wikipedia has 18.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 1 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Proper noun”, its content was written by 21 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1290 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 19 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14244 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #147 in November 2003
• Global: #385 in February 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1003 in September 2008
• Global: #11577 in September 2020

There are 33 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, 2026 (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) Proper noun		52.1583
2	Tamil (ta) தனிப் பெயர்ச்சொல்		40.8747
3	Latin (la) Nomen proprium		36.8745
4	German (de) Eigenname		32.8035
5	Italian (it) Nome proprio		28.4624
6	Finnish (fi) Erisnimi		27.8485
7	Slovenian (sl) Lastno ime		25.5643
8	French (fr) Nom propre		25.2507
9	Catalan (ca) Nom propi		25.16
10	Urdu (ur) اسم معرفہ		22.9258

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Proper noun		3 729 176
2	Spanish (es) Nombre propio		2 151 766
3	Russian (ru) Имя собственное		1 258 599
4	French (fr) Nom propre		955 836
5	Portuguese (pt) Nome próprio		597 903
6	Italian (it) Nome proprio		514 280
7	Kazakh (kk) Жалқы есім		468 025
8	German (de) Eigenname		440 567
9	Arabic (ar) علم (نحو)		413 378
10	Turkish (tr) Özel isim		371 463

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Proper noun		4 741
2	Russian (ru) Имя собственное		1 024
3	French (fr) Nom propre		902
4	Japanese (ja) 固有名詞		810
5	Spanish (es) Nombre propio		625
6	German (de) Eigenname		500
7	Turkish (tr) Özel isim		322
8	Polish (pl) Nazwa własna		254
9	Italian (it) Nome proprio		226
10	Portuguese (pt) Nome próprio		210

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Proper noun		254
2	German (de) Eigenname		150
3	French (fr) Nom propre		130
4	Italian (it) Nome proprio		92
5	Spanish (es) Nombre propio		85
6	Russian (ru) Имя собственное		63
7	Finnish (fi) Erisnimi		56
8	Danish (da) Egennavn		52
9	Dutch (nl) Eigennaam		49
10	Turkish (tr) Özel isim		41

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Thai (th) วิสามานยนาม		2
2	German (de) Eigenname		1
3	Finnish (fi) Erisnimi		1
4	Japanese (ja) 固有名詞		1
5	Arabic (ar) علم (نحو)		0
6	Catalan (ca) Nom propi		0
7	Czech (cs) Vlastní jméno		0
8	Danish (da) Egennavn		0
9	English (en) Proper noun		0
10	Esperanto (eo) Propra nomo		0

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

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