- 1. UCL SURNAME PROFILES Professor Paul Longley and Dr Alex
Singleton University College London Department of Geography
andCentre for Advanced Spatial Analysis Spatial is Special!
www.spatial-literacy.org
2. UCL Names in the Media 3. 4. Have I got News for You
http://www.spatial-literacy.org/?page_id=62 5. Learning
Objectives
- To find out what family names can tell us about people and
places in Great Britain
- To understand what mapping of family names can tell us about
migration and settlement structure in Great Britain over the last
120 years
- To understand what family names can tell us about international
migration
6. Taking UCL Surnames Profiles further
- www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames
- 26 countries in America, Europe, Asia and Oceania
- Covering a total population of 1 billion people
- Individual level data for 300 million people (full name and
address)
- 10.8 million unique surnames
- 6.5 million unique forenames
- Statistics at postcode level
