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A Note on the 25 Most Frequent Surnames from the 2000 United States Census Bureau List
Names, 2017 This note uses the United States Census Bureau database of the 1,000 most frequent surnames from the US census of 2000. It discusses briefly the meaning and origin of the notion of surname.
Frank Nuessel
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Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative Content of Surnames [PDF]
, 2013 We propose a new methodology for measuring intergenerational mobility in economic wellbeing. Our method is based on the joint distribution of surnames and economic outcomes.
Guell, Maia +2 more
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ANTROPONYMICS OF PEREYASLAV CRAFTSMEN IN THE 1760s
Місто: історія, культура, суспільство, 2018 The article deals with the surnames and names of the Pereyaslav craftsmen. The analysis of personal names was made on the basis of the General Description of Left-bank Ukraine or Rumyantsev Register, conducted in 1766.
Oksana Kovalenko
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The surname space of the Czech Republic: examining population structure by network analysis of spatial co-occurrence of surnames. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 In the majority of countries, surnames represent a ubiquitous cultural attribute inherited from an individual's ancestors and predominantly only altered through marriage.
Josef Novotný, James A Cheshire
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Similarities and Differences of Surnames of Lithuanian Origin in Kurzeme and Latgale
Acta Humanitarica Academiae SaulensisThe article is dedicated to the comparative analysis of surnames of Lithuanian origin used in the Western part of Latvia, i.e. Kurzeme (including Kurzeme, Zemgale and Sēlija) and Eastern part of Latvia, i.e.
Anna Stafecka, Regina Kvašytė
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Multilinguales, 2020 This paper examines the identity anchoring of surnames within the ethnic groups present in Figuil in Northen Cameroon. An onomastic and ethnolinguistic analysis, based on seventy-six surnames, determines the attribution system of surnames as it is ...
Warayanssa Mawoune
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Slave naming patterns : onomastics and the taxonomy of race in eighteenth-century Jamaica [PDF]
, 2001 Every year, slave owners responsible for managing estates were required by Jamaican law to submit to the local vestry an account of the whites, slaves, and livestock on their properties.
Burnard, Trevor
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American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Classified as carcinogenic to humans by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, aluminum production has been transitioning towards lower polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon‐emitting prebake smelters. This study explored the risk of cancer and mortality over 20 years follow‐up among a cohort of aluminum prebake smelter workers ...
Natasha Kinsman +7 more
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Współczesne nazwiska rosyjskie pochodzenia polskiego
Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2013 The article presents an analysis of 349 surnames obtained from Russian telephone directories. The author discusses the most important phonetic and morphological features of Russian surnames of Polish origin, identifies their types and draws up a list of ...
Marian Wójtowicz
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Surname studies with genetics [PDF]
, 2009 Genetic studies of surnames are briefly reviewed. In particular, such DNA studies can sometimes provide clues to a surname's meaning. A few surnames are being found to include unusually large single families, which are far more populous than computer ...
Plant, Dr John S
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