What's in a name? the frequency and geographic distributions of UK surnames

Significance

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 189-192

  McElduff, Fiona ^a   Mateos, Pablo ^b   Wade, Angie ^a   Borja, Mario Cortina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 57549090090     PISSN: 17409705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2008.00332.x     Document Type: Article

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