Surnames and dialects in France: Population structure and cultural evolution

Scapoli, Chiara; Goebl, Hans; Sobota, S.; Mamolini, Elisabetta; Rodríguez-Larralde, Álvaro; Barrai, I.

doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.03.035

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“…In these countries, 4 (Venezuela), 24 (Argentina), 23 (Bolivia), 4.5 (Paraguay) and 16.5 (Chile) million surnames from the registers of electors were used. In European countries and in the United States, we analysed surnames of telephone users (Barrai et al, 2001;Scapoli et al, 2005Scapoli et al, , 2007Rodriguez-Larralde et al, 2007). In thinly populated Siberia, we used half a million surnames (Tarskaya et al, 2009).…”

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Surnames in Albania: A Study of the Population of Albania through Isonymy

Mikerezi¹,

Xhina²,

Scapoli

et al. 2013

Annals of Human Genetics

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SummaryIn order to describe the isonymic structure of Albania, the distribution of 3,068,447 surnames was studied in the 12 prefectures and their administrative subdivisions: the 36 districts and 321 communes. The number of different surnames found was 37,184. Effective surname number for the entire country was 1327, the average for prefectures was 653.3 ± 84.3, for districts 365.9 ± 42.0 and for communes 122.6 ± 8.7. These values display a variation of inbreeding between administrative levels in the Albanian population, which can be attributed to the previously published "Prefecture effect".Matrices of isonymic distances between units within administrative levels were tested for correlation with geographic distances. The correlations were highest for prefectures (r = 0.71 ± 0.06 for Euclidean distance) and lowest for communes (r = 0.37 ± 0.011 for Nei's distance).The multivariate analyses (Principal component analysis and Multidimensional Scaling) of prefectures identify three main clusters, one toward the North, the second in Central Albania, and the third in the South. This pattern is consistent with important subclusters from districts and communes, which point out that the country may have been colonised by diffusion of groups in the North-South direction, and from Macedonia in the East, over a pre-existing Illiryan population.

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Surnames in Albania: A Study of the Population of Albania through Isonymy

Mikerezi¹,

Xhina²,

Scapoli

et al. 2013

Annals of Human Genetics

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“…Such specificity has been shown to capture a great deal of ethno-cultural variation that is often intertwined with the characteristics of an area [1]. In addition, surnames can often reveal aspects of large-scale population structure; for example, a good correspondence exists between changes in surname distribution and linguistic boundaries [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]. Given the paternal inheritance of surnames in many societies, surnames also have demonstrable utility as proxies for genetic information [7], [8], [9], [10], [11].…”

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The Surname Space of the Czech Republic: Examining Population Structure by Network Analysis of Spatial Co-Occurrence of Surnames

Novotný

Cheshire

2012

PLoS ONE

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In the majority of countries, surnames represent a ubiquitous cultural attribute inherited from an individual's ancestors and predominantly only altered through marriage. This paper utilises an innovative method, taken from economics, to offer unprecedented insights into the “surname space” of the Czech Republic. We construct this space as a network based on the pairwise probabilities of co-occurrence of surnames and find that the network representation has clear parallels with various ethno-cultural boundaries in the country. Our inductive approach therefore formalizes a simple assumption that the more frequently the bearers of two surnames concentrate in the same locations the higher the probability that these two surnames can be related (considering ethno-cultural relatedness, common co-ancestry or genetic relatedness, or some other type of relatedness). Using the Czech Republic as a case study this paper offers a fresh perspective on surnames as a quantitative data source and provides a methodology that can be easily incorporated within wider cultural, ethnic, geographic and population genetics studies already utilizing surnames.

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“…Surnamebased evidence on the genetic structure of the population, similar to the one concerning Austria [29], has been reported for several other nations, including Argentina, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the USA and Venezuela [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46]. This opens ample opportunity for replication and further surname studies of suicide.…”

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Surname study of suicide in Austria: Differences in regional suicide rates correspond to the genetic structure of the population

Voracek

Sonneck

2007

Wien Klin Wochenschr

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Regional differences in suicide rates within Austria correspond to the genetic structure of the population. The present evidence adds to related findings from geographical and surname studies of suicide that suggest a role for genetic risk factors for suicidal behavior. Genetic differences between subpopulations may partially account for the geography of suicide. Study limitations and directions for future research are discussed.

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Surnames and dialects in France: Population structure and cultural evolution

Cited by 38 publications

References 41 publications

Surnames in Albania: A Study of the Population of Albania through Isonymy

Surnames in Albania: A Study of the Population of Albania through Isonymy

The Surname Space of the Czech Republic: Examining Population Structure by Network Analysis of Spatial Co-Occurrence of Surnames

Surname study of suicide in Austria: Differences in regional suicide rates correspond to the genetic structure of the population

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