Table of contents
Central Asia →
Middle East →
Central America →
Indian Subcontinent →
Central Europe →
Iberian Peninsula →
Balkan Peninsula →
Baltic States →
More regions upcoming soon — here be dragons
What is this about?
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.
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
Footnotes
- 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 the World" (2024), Vitaliy Yevtushenko (Witold's Data Consulting). https://witold1.github.io/portfolio/projects/project-surnames-navigator/.BibTeX
@misc{witold_projects_project-surnames-navigator,
author = {Vitaliy Yevtushenko},
title = {{Project "Surnames of the World"}},
year = {2024},
url = {https://witold1.github.io/portfolio/projects/project-surnames-navigator/},
}Discuss with AI