Forenames of the World

Introduction

This post is a spin-off from "Surnames of the world", that explores 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.

Regions

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Central Asia

Central Asia

Middle East

Middle East

Central America

Central America

Indian Subcontinent

Indian Subcontinent

Central Europe

Central Europe

Project 'Surnames of the World' (2024), VJ from Witold's Data Consulting
https://witold1.github.io/blog/posts/project-surnames-navigator/post

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