- 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
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 ”
- New surnames - one-name. org
Indian personal names such as “Rasheed, Krish (n)a, and Govind, and surnames such as Khan, Mathur and Iyer convey a person’s religious, linguistic, caste, sub-caste, clan and even lineage affiliations ”
- 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
- Updated version of Surname Atlas
The British 19th Century Surname Atlas is a fully interactive CD-Rom product that allows you to plot distribution maps for all of the surnames and forenames found in the 1881 Census of England, Scotland, and Wales
- Guild of One-Name Studies – One-name studies, Genealogy
Guild News Oxfordshire Family History Society Fair – 26 October 2024 Most Surnames come from Somewhere – Recording Most Surnames come from Somewhere – September 2024 webinar Feature Study: Hardcastle
- Surnames and DNA - Guild of One-Name Studies
The presentation will cover the historical development of surnames, the emergence of variants, and what the current frequency and distribution of your surname can tell you about the origins
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