Monday, May 21, 2012

Mapping ethnicity onto names

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.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

mmmm the tool seems quite poor for example it assume that andrea is a english name.....

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