Surnames of Central America
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Introduction
This post explores the most common surnames across the Central America through wordcloud visualisation. Region equals to Central America from "UN M49, Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (Series M, No. 49)" โ, post-Soviet Central America or, less-known "C5+1 Diplomatic Platform" โ. Political boundaries shown according to their "de facto" status โ. Data came from Forebears.io โ.
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You can read more about local naming customs at Familysearch.org's wiki โ: Guatemala Naming Customs โ, Belize Naming Customs โ, El Salvador Naming Customs โ, Honduras Naming Customs โ, Nicaragua Naming Customs โ, Costa Rica Naming Customs โ, Panama 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 Central America, by country.
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