Surnames of Central Europe (merged region)
Surname frequency wordclouds for Central Europe, 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
Germany
Poland
Czechia
Switzerland
Austria
Slovakia
Slovenia
Hungary
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
Media presence
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How to cite this work
For human-readable attribution, please cite this work as:
Surnames of Central Europe (2024), Vitaliy Yevtushenko (Witold's Data Consulting). https://witold1.github.io/portfolio/blog/project-surnames/viz-surnames-central-europe/.BibTeX
@misc{witold_blog_project-surnamesviz-surnames-central-europe,
author = {Vitaliy Yevtushenko},
title = {{Surnames of Central Europe}},
year = {2024},
url = {https://witold1.github.io/portfolio/blog/project-surnames/viz-surnames-central-europe/},
}Discuss with AI