Forenames of the World

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Balkan Peninsula

Central America

Central Asia

Indian Subcontinent

Middle East

What is this about?

This post is a spin-off from "Surnames of the world", to explore 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.

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.

Forenames of the World (2024), Vitaliy Yevtushenko (Witold's Data Consulting). https://witold1.github.io/portfolio/blog/project-surnames/forenames/.

@misc{witold_blog_project-surnamesforenames,
  author = {Vitaliy Yevtushenko},
  title = {{Forenames of the World}},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://witold1.github.io/portfolio/blog/project-surnames/forenames/},
}