Map of Surnames in Europe • Hacker News Board

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by mazr » Thu, Mar 03, 2022, 12:19 PM UTC

elaus wrote: post #4

Very interesting, especially for less popular or more regional names. Would love to know more about how it's done: What is the source of those mapping between names and geo locations? Public phone books to get the address and then some reverse geo-coding?

Here's some of the sources I've seen when working on that topic [1] : Census data, Phone books, Academic bibliographic databases (web of science, pubmed), list of athletes at olympic games, Wikipedia, LinkedIn, ...

[1] https://antonomase.fr/fi/mazieres_bms_names.pdf you'll find the references to some of these examples.

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by gpvos » Thu, Mar 03, 2022, 12:21 PM UTC

karlerss wrote: post #3

Basically just population maps - https://xkcd.com/1138/

Even for very common Dutch surnames like Jansen, Smit and De Vries you see interesting differences.

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by donatj » Thu, Mar 03, 2022, 12:22 PM UTC

I wish I could search the whole thing at once. My surname is pretty rare in general.

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 03, 2022, 12:22 PM UTC

gitowiec wrote: post #6

elaus wrote: post #4

Very interesting, especially for less popular or more regional names. Would love to know more about how it's done: What is the source of those mapping between names and geo locations? Public phone books to get the address and then some reverse geo-coding?

Exactly! How come it knows where I live?

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Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by kibwen » Thu, Mar 03, 2022, 12:27 PM UTC

huhtenberg wrote: post #13

Not a single Dracula in Romania. Hmm.

Ah, but in Romanian his name was Vlad Țepeș, and while "Țepeș" has no hits, "Tepes" has several hundred.

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by sublimefire » Thu, Mar 03, 2022, 12:27 PM UTC

I'd love to see this done to something like Lithuania where surname ending differs among men, wives, girls (e.g. Tulas, Tuliene, Tulaite). Also, how do the compound names get dissected (e.g. Mary Scott-Doe)?

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by emreb » Thu, Mar 03, 2022, 12:29 PM UTC

Seems like a scam to collect credit card information from browsers that are not safe enough. When I click on the name field I get a message saying "Automatic credit card filling is disabled because this form does not ..."

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by kibwen » Thu, Mar 03, 2022, 12:33 PM UTC

benlumen wrote: post #19

Maybe it's my surname, but it just looks like a population map.

For common surnames, yes. Mine is quite rare, and while there are naturally a few hits in Berlin, most are concentrated in Southwest Germany, specifically Stuttgart. But you're right that it would be interesting to see the data normalized to population.

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by itronitron » Thu, Mar 03, 2022, 12:33 PM UTC

kibwen wrote: post #25

huhtenberg wrote: post #13

Not a single Dracula in Romania. Hmm.

Ah, but in Romanian his name was Vlad Țepeș, and while "Țepeș" has no hits, "Tepes" has several hundred.

Szilagyi shows up ... Vlad's second wife was Jusztina Szilágyi, ... She survived Vlad Dracul, and married thirdly Pál Suki, then János Erdélyi.

>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler#Family

Re: Map of Surnames in Europe

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Post by dusted » Thu, Mar 03, 2022, 12:37 PM UTC

The most interactive thing about this seems to be the banner ads..