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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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… ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

New Dictionary Explains 45,000 English and Irish Surnames Using sources dating back to the 11th century, researchers have put together the massive Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and ...

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 ...