Surnames A-Z - Guild of One-Name Studies Each of the surnames listed is the subject of a one-name study carried out by a Guild member and links to our full search results for that study If the results include a study profile, the link is shown with a light grey background
Surnames The more unusual your surname, the easier it may be to research As well as providing a key to other records, the name itself will have a story to tell See also the page on Variant and deviant surnames There are eight main types of surname: Locative : derives from the place where someone came from or lived This is the most common type of
Modern British Surnames - Guild of One-Name Studies “Modern British Surnames is devoted to the resources available for the study of the distribution, incidence and statistical analysis of the surnames of Britain, mainly post-1837, and primarily as a mass phenomenon ”
Top 500 names - Guild of One-Name Studies Surnames 1-500 This list was supplied by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) It is taken from a survey of the National Health Service Central Register This is a database of circa 60 million names of those who were registered with the NHS in 1991, and subsequent registrations
New surnames - one-name. org Immigrant surnames This table shows the top fifty new immigrant surnames as shown in the 1998 Electoral Rolls:
Most Surnames come from Somewhere – Recording Yesterday we were treated to a great webinar from Howard Benbrook who gave a knowledgeable and engaging presentation called Most Surnames come from Somewhere The webinar took a different structure to usual Howard talked about surnames in our usual webinar format, before providing a synopsis of the software, Surname Atlas
Where in the World is your Surname From? - Guild of One-Name Studies When our list started 5 years ago there were just 28 surnames These surnames and their country of origin are listed in the Members’ Wiki, but also appear at the end of this post in case you cannot spot them all in the image below
English names - Guild of One-Name Studies Surnames, even common ones, are not evenly distributed throughout England and Wales They vary in relative frequency from area to area Common names may be present thoughout, but even these show a tendency to concentrate in some areas rather than others
Surnames and DNA - Guild of One-Name Studies The presentation will cover the historical development of surnames, the emergence of variants, and what the current frequency and distribution of your surname can tell you about the origins The presentation then moves on to the use of DNA testing to make discoveries about your surname
Women’s names - Guild of One-Name Studies Samples taken from FreeBMD database of civil registrations of births with surnames Hall, Green, Wright and Jackson, sample sizes 1838 2618 2636, 1853 2555 2423, 1868 2688 2645, 1883 2611 2629 and 1898 2717 2703 (men women)