International

International data sources

The publication of national telephone directories on CD has been used by geneticists to study isonymic rates for individual countries. Onomastic studies based on national datasets are much rarer, but hopefully will increase.

	Format	dataset size (names)	Publication based on data source
Austria	1996 telephone CD	4 million	Barrai I and others. ‘Elements of the Surname Structure of Austria.’ Annals of Human Biology 27, no. 6(November 2000-December 2000): 607- 22.
Belgium	telephone CD [future online source]		Barrai I.; Rodriguez-Larralde A.; Manni F.; Ruggiero V.; Tartari D.; Scapoli C. ‘Isolation by Language and Distance in Belgium ‘Annals of Human Genetics, January 2003, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 1- 16(16)
Canada	1996 telephone CD	12 million	D K Tucker ‘Distribution of forenames, surnames and forename pairs in Canada’ Names 50 no. 2 (June 2002), 105-132
Denmark	Danish Central Civil Register	6.5+ million	Sondergaard, Georg. ‘Computer Databank of Danish Names’ Names , no. 38(1990): 21-30.
Estonia	Corpus Nominum Gentilium Estonicorum [online]	c 74,000
Finland			Poyhonen, Juhani. Suomalainen Sukunimikartasto . [Atlas of Finnish Surnames]. Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, 1998.
France	Insee datasets of births 1891-1915 and 1916-1940		Darlu, Pierre, Anna Degioanni, and Jacques Ruffie. ‘Quelques Statistiques Sur La Distribution Des Patronymes En France.’ Population [Paris]52, no. 3(1997): 607-34.
Germany	telephone CD ?		Rodriguez-Larralde, A.; Barrai, I.; Scapoli, C. ‘Isonymy and Isolation by Distance in Germany’. Human biology, 1998, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 1041}
Israel		4 million+	Eliassaf, Nissim. ‘Names Survey in the Population Administration : State of Israel.’ Names , no. 29 (1981): 273- 84
Italy	telephone CD ?		Barrai, I.; Rodriguez-Larralde, A.; Scapoli, ‘Isonymy and Isolation by Distance in Italy’. Human biology, 1999, vol. 71, no. 6, pp. 947
Italy-Sicily	telephone CD ?		Rodriguez Larralde, A. and others. ‘Isonymy and the Genetic Structure of Sicily.’ Journal of Biosocial Science 26, no. 1(1994): 9-24.
Japan			Miyazima S and others. ‘Power-Law Distribution of Family Names in Japanese Societies.’ Physica A 278, no. 1-2(April 2000): 282-88.
Netherlands	Instituut Meertens [online]	27,000	‘Grinding one’s teeth. Linkage of surnames in the Database of Surnames in The Netherlands’ by Leendert Brouwer 21st International Congress of Onomastic Sciences Uppsala, August 19-24, 2002
Norway
New Zealand
Russia			Balanovsky O.P., Buzhilova A.P., and Balanovskaya E.V. ‘The Russian Gene Pool: Gene Geography of Surnames.’ Russian Journal of Genetics 37, no. 7 ( July 2001 )
Spain	telephone CD ?		Rodriguez-Larralde, A.; Gonzales-Martin, A.; Scapoli, C.; Barrai, I. ‘The Names of Spain: A Study of the Isonymy Structure of Spain’. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2003, vol. 121, no. 3, pp.280-292
Switzerland	1994 Helvetic Telephone Directory		Barrai, I. and others. ‘Isonymy and the Genetic Structure of Switzerland .1. The Distributions of Surnames.’ Annals of Human Biology 23, no. 6(1996): 431-55
USA	1997 telephone directory CD	100 million	D K Tucker ‘Distribution of forenames, surnames and forename pairs in the USA’ Names 49, no. 2 (2001): 69-96.
Venezuela	telephone CD ?		Rodriguez-Larralde, Alvaro; Morales, Jorge; Barrai, Italo ‘Surname Frequency and the Isonymy Structure of Venezuela’.American Journal of Human Biology, 2000, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 352

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