Map shows the British surnames at risk of being wiped out - from Osborn to Pickles The top 10 surnames in England and Wales have been more or less stable for the past 170 years, but others are in ...

Surnames were then mapped to the 8920 wards across Great Britain, and coded in different colors according to their origin - be it English, Welsh etc. However, for the 'normal' data, the team used ...

A website which maps global surnames has been launched to help people find the origins of their name and how far it may have spread. The Public Profiler site plots eight million last names using data ...

Like Baker, Fisher or Glover, Smith began as an occupational surname for those who worked with metal, its roots tracing back to the ancient Anglo-Saxon and medieval English periods.

The map contains 2379 individual surnames represented some 15,000 times. Names are colour coded according to origin. Among a blue tide of British appellations (Smith, Brown, Williams, ...

A FASCINATING new map has plotted out the most common surnames in every country in the world. The map also highlights the origins of different names, providing incredible insights into the historie… ...

James Cheshire, of UCL's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has followed up on mapping life expectancy on tube lines with a fun new map showing the top fifteen most common surnames in London by ...

M@ Map Puzzle: Work Out The Celebrity Surnames That Are Also English Places Click or tap for larger version. Just for fun, here's a cartographic puzzler for you.

Have you ever wondered where your surname originates from? This simple heat map claims to reveal where in the UK your historical roots lie by showing the places where your second name is most ...

From the Old English words wudu, wood, and weard, guardian, a woodward was a forester. Just think: if we took our surnames from present-day occupations, you might run across people like Max Coder ...

Nature - A History of Surnames of the British Isles: a Concise Account of their Origin, Evolution, Etymology, and Legal Status Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature.com.

Surnames were then mapped to the 8920 wards across Great Britain, and coded in different colors according to their origin - be it English, Welsh etc. However, for the 'normal' data, the team used ...