The list of abbreviations originally given on p. 57, § 116, was enlarged in the report of the committee on catalogue rules of the American Library Association (Library journal, 3: 16–19). It there included the abbreviations for the most usual forenames formed by the initial followed by a colon for men and by two periods for women (as J:=John, M..=Mary), devised by C: A. Cutter and first published in the Library journal, 1: 405 and 5: 176. It was republished, classified, but with many omissions and additions, by Melvil Dewey in Library notes, 1: 206–211, and also on a convenient card. It is here reprinted in full with his additions.
A list of abbreviations used in describing bindings, prepared by E. H. Woodruff, was published in the Library journal for May, 1887.
| Aaron | Aar. |
| Abraham | Ab. |
| Adam | Ad. |
| Adelbert | Adlb. |
| Adolf | Adf. |
| Adrian | Adr. |
| Aegidius | Aeg. |
| Albert | Alb. |
| Albrecht | Albr. |
| Alexander, Alexandre | Alex. |
| Alfonso | Alf. |
| Alfred | Alfr. |
| Alphonse | Alph. |
| Amadeus | Amad. |
| Ambrose, Ambrosius | Amb. |
| Anastasius | Anast. |
| Andreas, Andrew | And. |
| Anna | A.. |
| Anselm | Ans. |
| Anthony, Antoine, Anton | Ant. |
| Archibald | Arch. |
| Arnold | Arn. |
| Arthur | Arth. |
| August, Augustus | A: |
| Augusta | A: a |
| Augustin | A: in |
| Augustinus | A: inus |
| Aurelius | Aur. |
| Austin | Aust. |
| Baldwin | Bald. |
| Balthasar | Balt. |
| Baptiste | Bapt. |
| Barbara | Barb. |
| Barnard | Barn. |
| Bartholomäus, Bartholomew | Bart. |
| Basilius | Bas. |
| Beatrice | B.. |
| Beatrix | Bx. |
| Belinda | Bel. |
| Benedict | Bened. |
| Benjamin | B: |
| Bernard | Bern. |
| Bernhard | Bernh. |
| Barthold | Brth. |
| Bertram | Bert. |
| Boniface | Boni. |
| Bruno | Bru. |
| Burchard | Bch. |
| Cadwallader | Cadwal. |
| Caleb | Clb. |
| Calvin | Calv. |
| Camillus | Cam. |
| Camilla | Cma. |
| Carl, Carlo, Charles | C: |
| Caroline | Caro. |
| Casimir | Cas. |
| Caspar | Cap. |
| Catharine | Cath. |
| Charlotte | C.. |
| Christian | Chr. |
| Christlieb | Chli. |
| Christoph | Cp. |
| Clarence | Clar. |
| Claude | Cl. {120} |
| Claudius | Cls. |
| Clemens, Clement | Clem. |
| Conrad | Conr. |
| Constantin | Const. |
| Cordelia | Cord. |
| Cornelius | Corn. |
| Crispian, Crispin, Crispus | Crsp. |
| Daniel | Dan. |
| David | D: |
| Deborah | Deb. |
| Detlev | Dtl. |
| Delia | D. |
| Diana | Di. |
| Dietrich | Dt. |
| Dominicus | Dom. |
| Donald | Don. |
| Dorothy | Dor. |
| Duncan | Dunc. |
| Ebenezer | Eb. |
| Eberhard | Ebh. |
| Edgar | Edg. |
| Edmund | Edm. |
| Edouard, Eduard, Edward | E: |
| Edwin | Edn. |
| Egbert | Egb. |
| Ehrenfried | Ehrfr. |
| Elias | El. |
| Elijah | Elij. |
| Elizabeth | E.. |
| Emanuel | Em. |
| Ephraim | Eph. |
| Erdmann | Erdm. |
| Erhard | Erh. |
| Eric, Erich | Er. |
| Ernest, Ernst | Ern. |
| Eugen, Eugene | Eug. |
| Eusebius | Eus. |
| Eustace, Eustachius | Eust. |
| Evelina | Evel. |
| Ezechiel | Ezech. |
| Ezra | Ez. |
| Fanny | F.. |
| Felix | Fel. |
| Ferdinand | Fd. |
| Fitz William | Fitz W. |
| Flavius | Flav. |
| Florence | Flo. |
| Francis | Fs. |
| Frances | Fcs. |
| Frank | Fk. |
| Franz | Fz. |
| Frederic, Friedrich | F: |
| Fürchtegott | Fchtg. |
| Gabriel | Gbr. |
| Gamaliel | Gam. |
| Gasparo | Gsp. |
| Gaston | Gast. |
| Gebhard | Gbh. |
| Geoffrey | Geof. |
| Georg, George, Georges | G: |
| Gerald | Ger. |
| Gerhard | Gh. |
| Gershom | Gersh. |
| Gertrude | Gert. |
| Giacomo | Giac. |
| Giam Battista | Gi. bat. |
| Gian Giacomo | Gi. Giac. |
| Gian Pietro | Gi. P: |
| Gideon | Gid. |
| Gilbert | Gilb. |
| Giovanni | Gi. |
| Giuseppe | Giu. |
| Godfrey | Godf. |
| Gottfried | Gf. |
| Gotthard | Gthd. |
| Gotthelf | Ghf. |
| Gotthold | Ghld. |
| Gottlieb | Gli. |
| Gottlob | Glo. |
| Gottschalk | Gk. |
| Grace | G.. |
| Gregor, Gregory | Greg. |
| Guillaume | Guil. |
| Günther | Gth. |
| Gustav, Gustavus | Gst. |
| Hannah | Ha. |
| Hans | Hs. |
| Harold | Har. |
| Harriet | Ht. |
| Hartmann | Htm. |
| Hartwig | Htw. |
| Hector | Hect. |
| Hedwig | Hedw. |
| Heinrich, Henri, Henry | H: |
| Helen | H.. |
| Herbert | Herb. |
| Herrmann | Hm. |
| Hezekiah | Hzk. |
| Hieronymus | Hi. |
| Hippolyte | Hip. |
| Horace | Hor. |
| Hubert | Hub. |
| Hugh | Hu. {121} |
| Hugo | Hg. |
| Humphrey | Hum. |
| Ignatius, Ignaz | Ign. |
| Immanuel | Im. |
| Innocenz | Inn. |
| Isaac | I: |
| Isabella | I.. |
| Israel | Isr. |
| Jacob | Jac. |
| Jakob | Jak. |
| James | Ja. |
| Jane | J.. |
| Jasper | Jasp. |
| Jedediah | Jed. |
| Jemima | Jem. |
| Jeremiah, Jeremias, Jeremy | Jer. |
| Joachim | Joac. |
| Joel | Jl. |
| John, Johann, Jean, masc. | J: |
| Johannes | Js. |
| Jonathan | Jona. |
| Joseph | Jos. |
| Josepha | Josa. |
| Josephine | Jose. |
| Joshua | Josh. |
| Jószef | Jósz. |
| Jules, Julius | Jul. |
| Julia | Jla. |
| Juliet | Jlt. |
| Justin, Justus | Just. |
| Karl | K: |
| Kaspar | Ksp. |
| Katharine | K.. |
| Konrad | Konr. |
| Laurence | Laur. |
| Lawrence | Lawr. |
| Lazarus | Laz. |
| Leberecht, Lebrecht | Lbr. |
| Lemuel | Lem. |
| Leonard | Leon. |
| Leonhard | Lh. |
| Leopold | Lp. |
| Lewis | Lew. |
| Louis, Ludwig | L: |
| Louise | L.. |
| Lobegott | Lbg. |
| Lorenz | Lor. |
| Lothar | Lth. |
| Louisa | L.. |
| Ludolf | Ldf. |
| Malachi | Mal. |
| Marcus | Mcs. |
| Margaret | Marg. |
| Maria | Mar. |
| Marc, Mark | M: |
| Martin | Mt. |
| Mary | M.. |
| Mathäus, Matthew | Mat. |
| Matilda | Mta. |
| Maurice | Maur. |
| Max, Maximilian | Mx. |
| Mehitabel | Mehit. |
| Melchior | Mlch. |
| Michael | Mich. |
| Moriz | Mor. |
| Moses | Mos. |
| Nancy | N.. |
| Napoleon | Nap. |
| Nathan | Nat. |
| Nathaniel | Natl. |
| Nehemiah | Neh. |
| Nepomuk | Np. |
| Nicodemus | Nicod. |
| Nicolas, Nicolaus, Nicole | N: |
| Noah | No. |
| Norman | Norm. |
| Obadiah | Ob. |
| Octavius | Oct. |
| Octavia | Octa. |
| Oliver | Ol. |
| Olivia | O.. |
| Orlando | Orl. |
| Oscar | Osc. |
| Oswald | Osw. |
| Ottmar | Ottm. |
| Otto | O: |
| Patrick | Pat. |
| Paul | Pl. |
| Pauline | P.. |
| Peter, Pierre | P: |
| Philip | Ph. |
| Phineas | Phin. |
| Priscilla | Pris. |
| Rachel | Ra. |
| Raimund, Raymond | Rmd. |
| Raphael | Rapl. |
| Rebecca | R.. |
| Reginald | Reg. |
| Reinhard | Rhd. |
| Reinhold | Rhld. |
| Reuben | Reub. {122} |
| Richard | R: |
| Robert | Rob. |
| Rodolph | Rod. |
| Roger | Rog. |
| Roland | Rol. |
| Rudolf | Rud. |
| Rufus | Ruf. |
| Rupert, Ruprecht | Rup. |
| Salomon | Sal. |
| Salvator | Salv. |
| Samuel | S: |
| Sarah | S.. |
| Severen | Sev. |
| Sebastian | Seb. |
| Siegfried | Siegf. |
| Sigismund | Sgsm. |
| Sigmund | Sigm. |
| Simeon, Simon | Sim. |
| Solomon | Sol. |
| Sophia | So. |
| Stanislas | Stan. |
| Stephen | Ste. |
| Susan | Su. |
| Tabitha | Tab. |
| Temperance | Temp. |
| Thaddeus | Thad. |
| Theobald | Thbd. |
| Theodor | Thdr. |
| Theophilus | Thph. |
| Theresa | T.. |
| Thomas, Tomas, Tomaso | T: |
| Tiberius | Tib. |
| Timotheus, Timothy | Tim. |
| Titus | Tit. |
| Tobias, Tobiah | Tob. |
| Traugott | Trg. |
| Ulrich | U: |
| Ursula | U.. |
| Valentine | Val. |
| Veit | Vt. |
| Victor | Vet. |
| Victoria | V.. |
| Vincentius | Vinc. |
| Virginia | Virg. |
| Volkmar | Volkm. |
| Waldemar | Wald. |
| Walther, Walter | Wa. |
| Washington | Wash. |
| Wenzel | Wz. |
| Werner | Wr. |
| William, Willem, Wilhelm | W: |
| Wilhelmina | W.. |
| Winfred | Winf. |
| Winifred | Winif. |
| Woldemar | Wold. |
| Wolfgang | Wolfg. |
| Xaver, Xavier | X: |
| Xenophon | Xen. |
| Xerxes | Xerx. |
| Zacharias, Zachary | Zach. |
| Zebadiah, Zebedee | Zeb. |
| Zechariah | Zech. |
| Zenobia | Z.. |
| Zephaniah | Zeph. |