The paper considers how the peculiarities of allusive anthroponymic concepts are realized on the material of short stories by an American writer O. Henry. Sixteen short stories are selected for analysis. The method of continuous sampling, of conceptual analysis and the descriptive method have been used in the research. It is revealed that an allusive anthroponymic concept can be represented in the form of a concept-representation, a concept-notion, a prototype, a model and a frame. Allusive anthroponymic concepts-gestalts have not been identified in the sample.
