Surnames A-Z - Guild of One-Name Studies Surnames Registered with the Guild 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
Top 500 names - Guild of One-Name Studies Top 500 names 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
Modern British Surnames - Guild of One-Name Studies The Modern British Surnames part of the Guild of One-Name Studies’ website is dedicated to the memory of the late Philip Dance who created Modern British Surnames: a resource guide and was an enthusiastic proponent of the study of the distribution, incidence and statistical analysis of the surnames of Britain Philip’s research also includes extensive content on countries throughout the
Surnames 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 surname in England Sub-categories of locative are: Topographical : derived from a distinctive geographical feature, e g Green, Hill, Langridge, Townsend
Men’s names - Guild of One-Name Studies Such surnames have been excluded from the lists here Table 6 – Most popular second names, Victorian period * as a percentage of all males with second names ** see Table 2 A sub-sample of about 5000 bridegrooms (1867–1886) gave 792 (14%) with a second name Together they shared about 115 different second names
Guild of One-Name Studies One-name studies, Genealogy Family historians generally research their ancestors as far back as possible, collecting names and information on everyone related to them A one-name study is rather different It concentrates on those with a single surname, even if they are not related Researchers often start by following a single line of their own family, but move on to collecting information on
Macro scale - one-name. org Investigating surname distribution and frequency – the macro scale The distribution of the leading British surnames in 1881:
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 The focus is on Y-DNA, with brief information about mtDNA
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