The article deals with professional neo-nominations in the English discourse. The semantic, structural, and dis-cursive plans of this layer of vocabulary are analyzed. The meaning of such neologisms is transparent due to the nominative weight of their components. These units form an informational picture of the world and reflect the national and cultural characteristics of the world perception and the system of value relations. The emer-gence of new things is an essential property of any system, a consequence of its development, movement for-ward, an integral feature and evidence of its viability. The appearance of new words in the language system is a manifestation of this tendency and confirmation of the principles of its dynamism and openness. These units form an informational picture of the world and reflect the national and cultural characteristics of the world per-ception and the system of value relations. The unremitting attention of researchers to the problems of neology is due to the significant role of new words as a mirror of linguistic development which clearly reflects the adapta-tion of the language to the changing conditions of its functioning under the influence of linguistic and extralin-guistic factors. The authors pay special attention to the system of names of persons by profession and position which in any national language are in continuous movement and development: new areas of knowledge and activity appear – new designations appear for persons actively functioning in these areas. The article used such methods of scientific knowledge as literature analysis, generalization of experience, classification, and deduc-tion, as well as the method of contextual analysis and the descriptive method. The methodological basis was the work of leading Russian specialists in the field of neology, axiology, and onomastics. Methods of formation of new words denoting professions were established and described, patterns and causes of the activity of certain language processes at the present stage of language formation were revealed. The article concludes about the role of the new vocabulary as an indicator of the display of value orientations of society at the present stage of its development.