Forenames of the World
• version: data quality experiment • created: Mid-2024
Introduction
This post is a spin-off from my Project "Surnames of the world", that explores the most common forenames across the various regions of the world through wordcloud visualisation. Political boundaries shown according to their "de facto" status ⎋. Data came from Forebears.io ⎋.
Charts and figures
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Read more about local naming customs at Familysearch.org's wiki ⎋. Also, for some countries and regions you can find academic papers that explain how names were forming there.
Fig 2. Forenames of the World, by country.
Balkan Peninsula
Central America
Central Asia
Indian Subcontinent
Middle East
★ How to cite this work
Project "Surnames of " (2024), Vitaliy from Witold's Data Consulting
https://witold1.github.io/blog/posts/project-surnames-navigator/post
Table of Content: Charts and figures • To Surnames Navigator ↩ •
Media presence: LinkedIn post ⎋ •