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