Surnames of Baltic States
โข version: draft โข created: Mid-2024
Introduction
This post explores the most common surnames across the Baltic Countries through wordcloud visualisation. Region includes selected countries of Northern Europe from "UN M49, Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (Series M, No. 49)" โ, Post-Soviet Baltic states (also known as Baltic republics). Political boundaries shown according to their "de facto" status โ. Data came from Forebears.io.
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Read more about local naming customs at Familysearch.org's wiki โ: Estonia Naming Customs โ, Latvia Naming Customs โ, Lithuania Naming Customs โ. Also, for some countries and regions you can find academic papers that explain how names were forming there.
Fig 2. Surnames of Baltic States, by country.
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