The issue of precedence attracts the attention of Russian and foreign linguists. Each person is a representative of a particular national culture, including language, history, literature and national customs. One of the linguistic ways of expressing the values of society are precedent texts and precedent phenomena. The system of precedent texts is a national linguistic and cultural value that stores the information about the language history and the society.

The research is aimed at identification and description of the factors that affect literary onyms getting the status of national precedent namesbased on the literary characters from the book by Hoffmann “Struwwelpeter”. The issue of the nature of a proper name is still under consideration. The system of precedent onymsis a national linguistic and cultural value that stores the information about the history of language and society.