noun. a name used by foreigners for a place, as Florence for Firenze. a name used by foreigners to refer to a people or social group that the group itself does not use, as Germans for Deutsche.

What is the difference between endonym and Exonym?

An exonym is a name given to something by an outsider while an endonym is given by an insider. Exonyms typically happen as a result of three different things: sensory observations, pronunciation differences, and language differences.

Why do we use Exonyms?

Reasons for the Existence of Exonyms

The first is historical. In many cases, explorers, unaware of existing place names, or colonizers and military conquerors unmindful of them, gave names in their own languages to geographical features having native names...