- 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
- Top 500 names - Guild of One-Name Studies
Top 500 names 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
- Surnames
For a more extended discussion of the different types of surnames and their different distributions in the Anglophone world, see the papers from a conference held in 2004 on Surnames as a quantitative resource: the geography of British and Anglophone surnames
- 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 ”
- What is a One-Name Study?
The entire database contains over a million surnames, shared by 55 9 million people, but names shared by fewer than five people have been excluded from the list
- Where in the World is your Surname From? - Guild of One-Name Studies
In recent years, the Guild has worked hard to increase the registration of surnames whose origins begin outside of the British Isles We are delighted to announce that we now have 100 of these surnames registered
- International
Surnames have a very long history in China, but there are only 3,100 surnames in current use compared with nearly 12,000 in the past The 5 most common surnames, Zhang, Wang, Li, Zhao and Chen, are shared by 350 million people
- Results - Guild of One-Name Studies
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