OnoMAP
is a spin off of University College
London that provides, via it's website, a way of classifying people and the places they live, based on our
common cultural, ethnic and linguistic roots.
OnoMAP analyses common patterns of forenames and surnames using a databases of people drawn from 28 countries. The OnoMAP classification covers over 500,000 forenames and 1 million surnames, and most exhibit distinctive geographic patterning.
Via the website http://www.onomap.org you can make a simple interrogation on one name/surname or you may contact the company for providing full access to the data.
OnoMAP analyses common patterns of forenames and surnames using a databases of people drawn from 28 countries. The OnoMAP classification covers over 500,000 forenames and 1 million surnames, and most exhibit distinctive geographic patterning.
Via the website http://www.onomap.org you can make a simple interrogation on one name/surname or you may contact the company for providing full access to the data.
1 comment:
mmmm the tool seems quite poor for example it assume that andrea is a english name.....
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