Surnames of Indian Subcontinent
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Introduction
This post explores the most common surnames across the Indian Subcontinent through wordcloud visualisation. The subcontinent intersects a lot with Southern Asia from "UN M49, Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (Series M, No. 49)" โ, but was extended a bit. 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: India Naming Customs โ, Pakistan Naming Customs โ, Nepal Naming Customs โ, Bangladesh Naming Customs โ, Bhutan Naming Customs โ, Sri Lanka 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 Indian Subcontinent, by country.
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