Surnames of Central Europe
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Introduction
This post explores the most common surnames across the Central Europe through wordcloud visualisation. Region equals to Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Southern Europe from "UN M49, Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (Series M, No. 49)" 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: Germany Naming Customs โ, Poland Naming Customs โ, Czechia Naming Customs โ, Switzerland Naming Customs โ, Austria Naming Customs โ, Slovakia Naming Customs โ, Slovenia Naming Customs โ, Hungary 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 Europe, by country.
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