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- Surnames A-Z - Guild of One-Name Studies
Each of the surnames listed is the subject of a one-name study carried out by a Guild member and links to our full search results for that study If the results include a study profile, the link is shown with a light grey background
- Surnames
The more unusual your surname, the easier it may be to research As well as providing a key to other records, the name itself will have a story to tell See also the page on Variant and deviant surnames There are eight main types of surname: Locative : derives from the place where someone came from or lived This is the most common type of
- Modern British Surnames - Guild of One-Name Studies
“Modern British Surnames is devoted to the resources available for the study of the distribution, incidence and statistical analysis of the surnames of Britain, mainly post-1837, and primarily as a mass phenomenon ”
- Results - Guild of One-Name Studies
Call us free on: UK: 0800 011 2182 US Canada: 1-800-647-4100 Australia: 1800 305 184
- Top 500 names - Guild of One-Name Studies
Surnames 1-500 This list was supplied by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) It is taken from a survey of the National Health Service Central Register This is a database of circa 60 million names of those who were registered with the NHS in 1991, and subsequent registrations
- Most Surnames come from Somewhere – Recording
Yesterday we were treated to a great webinar from Howard Benbrook who gave a knowledgeable and engaging presentation called Most Surnames come from Somewhere The webinar took a different structure to usual Howard talked about surnames in our usual webinar format, before providing a synopsis of the software, Surname Atlas
- Macro scale - one-name. org
For England and Wales, the top 300 surnames encompass 36% of the population of England and Wales (and if E W has 0 5 million surnames(?) then, the top 500 (as 1% of names) surnames should then cover 70% of the population)
- Where in the World is your Surname From? - Guild of One-Name Studies
When our list started 5 years ago there were just 28 surnames These surnames and their country of origin are listed in the Members’ Wiki, but also appear at the end of this post in case you cannot spot them all in the image below
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