This is a meta-post to ease navigation across surname wordcloud visualizations by world region.
Political boundaries are mostly shown according to their “de facto” statusref 1. Raw data came from Forebears.io.
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
Iberian Peninsula
Iberian Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula
Balkan Peninsula
Baltic States
Baltic States
More regions upcoming soon
More regions upcoming soon
FAQ
How to read these wordcloud maps?Click or tap to open section
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:
Project “Surnames of …” (2024), Vitaliy Y from Witold's Data Consulting
https://witold1.github.io/blog/posts/project-surnames-navigator/postBibTeX
@misc{witold_projects_project-surnames-navigator-meta,
author = {Yevtushenko, Vitaliy},
title = {{Project "Surnames of the World"}},
year = {2024},
url = {/portfolio/projects/project-surnames-navigator-meta/},
}