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The article aims to show the developmental changes in the inhabitant nicknames in the Orava villages, which were systematically addressed for the first time by A. Habovštiak at the First Slovak Onomastic Conference in 1967. The newer forms of the inhabitant nicknames were obtained by extracting an extensive set of seminar papers written by students of Slovak Studies from the Faculty of Arts at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica and partly also from the Faculty of Arts at Catholic University in Ružomberok during the span of years 2000-2022. Several inhabitant nicknames maintain continuity from an earlier period, while some display a change in the interpretation of the motivational story; new nicknames were also observed that were not previously mentioned by A. Habovštiak.