| Properhood RA Coates Language 82 (2), 356-382, 2006 | 165 | 2006 |
| Britons in Anglo-Saxon England PN Higham, A Woolf, C Hills, C Lewis, D Tyler, DE Thornton, D Probert, ... Boydell and Brewer, 2007 | 98 | 2007 |
| The Oxford dictionary of family names in Britain and Ireland P Hanks, R Coates, P McClure Oxford University Press, 2016 | 79 | 2016 |
| Word structure R Coates Routledge, 2002 | 79 | 2002 |
| The place-names of Hampshire R Coates University of Sussex, 1989 | 74 | 1989 |
| Pragmatic sources of analogical reformation1 R Coates Journal of Linguistics 23 (2), 319-340, 1987 | 73 | 1987 |
| Invisible Britons: the view from linguistics R Coates Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, 172-191, 2007 | 67 | 2007 |
| Celtic voices, English places: Studies of the Celtic impact on place-names in England R Coates, A Breeze University of Sussex, 2000 | 62 | 2000 |
| The family name as socio-cultural feature and genetic metaphor: From concepts to methods P Darlu, G Bloothooft, A Boattini, L Brouwer, M Brouwer, G Brunet, ... Human biology 84 (2), 169-214, 2012 | 58 | 2012 |
| A strictly Millian approach to the definition of the proper name R Coates Mind & Language 24 (4), 433-444, 2009 | 56 | 2009 |
| Celtic voices R Coates, A Breeze English places, 311-345, 2000 | 51 | 2000 |
| A new explanation of the name of London R Coates Transactions of the Philological Society 96 (2), 203-229, 1998 | 49 | 1998 |
| A new theory of properhood R Coates Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Onomastic Sciences 1, 125-137, 2005 | 37 | 2005 |
| New light from old wicks: the progeny of Latin vicus R Coates Nomina 22, 75-116, 1999 | 36 | 1999 |
| Eight issues in the pragmatic theory of properhood R Coates Acta Linguistica Lithuanica, 119–140-119–140, 2012 | 32 | 2012 |
| Onomastics R Coates The Encyclopedia of applied linguistics, 2012 | 31 | 2012 |
| Names R Coates University of Sussex, 2006 | 31 | 2006 |
| Some Consequences and Critiques of'The Pragmatic Theory of Properhood R Coates Onoma 41, 27-44, 2006 | 30 | 2006 |
| Singular definite expressions with a unique denotatum and the limits of properhood R Coates Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 38 (6), 1161-1174, 2000 | 28 | 2000 |
| We are surrounded by onymies: relations among names, name-types, and terminological categories R Coates Names in Daily Life: Proceedings of the XXIV ICOS International Congress of …, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
