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 …

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 …

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 …

“ 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 …

You may find our other Guild websites of interest: Members’ Websites Program Surname Cloud Guild Members’ records on FamilySearch

Jan 30, 2018 · 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.

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, …

You can find out which surnames are being studied from our online Register, where contact details are listed for over 8,400 surnames and variants being researched by members of the …

Their findings are based on a comprehensive survey of all the surnames which were recorded in the marriage registers of all parishes in Wales for the period 1813-1837.

This is perhaps due to the perceived need for surnames to be differentiated from common nouns, in a way other than capitalisation. This process seems to apply particularly to succinct names, …