Surname frequency wordclouds for the Balkan Peninsula, by administrative unit. Political boundaries are shown according to their “de facto” status. Data came from Forebears.io.

Hub: Project “Surnames of the World”.

Maps

Albania

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Kosovo

Montenegro

North Macedonia

Romania

Serbia

Slovenia

Greece

Moldova

FAQ

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The bigger the word, the more frequent the surname. Wordclouds are built from aggregated surname frequencies by administrative unit.

Interactive reference example: Apache ECharts wordcloud demo.

References

Forebears article (archived): “Accuracy of Surname Statistics on Forebears”
Naming customs: FamilySearch Europe

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How to cite this work

For human-readable attribution, please cite this work as:

Surnames of the Balkan Peninsula (2024), Vitaliy Yevtushenko (Witold's Data Consulting). https://witold1.github.io/portfolio/blog/project-surnames/viz-surnames-balkan-peninsula/.

BibTeX

@misc{witold_blog_project-surnamesviz-surnames-balkan-peninsula,
  author = {Vitaliy Yevtushenko},
  title = {{Surnames of the Balkan Peninsula}},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://witold1.github.io/portfolio/blog/project-surnames/viz-surnames-balkan-peninsula/},
}

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