Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy/External resources (popularity)

Name articles need to abide by the same requirements of verifiability that other articles on Wikipedia must. This page contains practical information on several external resources suitable for use as reliable sources in name articles, though the notion that these are reliable sources has not been subjected to stringent review by editors not affiliated with the Anthroponymy WikiProject. A pre-formatted citation template has been included with each resource listing to facilitate use of the source.

The listed external resources can be subdivided into two types of categorizations. One categorization has been used in the table of contents for this page - topic area. The second categorization axis is based on publisher, which will be described here at a future date.

Argentina

 * http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/110429602/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
 * From Abstract: "In order to study the isonymic structure of Argentina, the surname distributions of 22.6 million electors registered for the year 2001 were analyzed in the 24 districts (distritos) and 541 municipalities (municipios) of the country."
 * Availability: Abstract available free; manuscript available to subscribers.


 * http://www.leak.com.ar/~juan/papers/guia/paper/data/apellido_mas_100.txt
 * Scope: Buenos Aires; counts of found instances per surname with no aggregate statistics.
 * Data source: 2003 White pages (telephone directory)
 * Copyright: "Copyright © 2003 by John F. Codagnone. Este material puede ser distribuido sólo sujeto a los términos y condiciones explicitados en la Open Publication License v1.0 o posterior (la última se encuentra disponible en http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/ [1]), sin hacer uso de las opciones del inciso VI . This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions outlined in the Open Publication License v1.0 or later (the last is available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/ [1]), without making use the options of subsection VI." (Google-translated version from http://www.leak.com.ar/~juan/papers/guia/paper/)

France
This source does not have a firm date associated with it, but from the site in general I infer that the information is valid as of sometime in 2007. The frequency information is based on the surnames of people, millions, signed up for a particularly popular social networking site in France. It is no doubt skew in some way and does not have the official nature of a government statistical analysis.

Poland
The first resource provided here is apparently considered a valuable genealogical resource, providing counts of name instances both country-wide and in each of the official subdivisions of Poland extant in 1990. The strengths and weaknesses of the resource are addressed in the Usage Assistance links provided in the table.

The resource below is an extension of the resource linked above. Whereas the resource above relates details of each surname, the listing linked below places the surnames in rank-order context accompanied by country-wide counts from the main resource.

Ireland

 * Location: http://www.cso.ie/statistics/top_babies_names.htm
 * Publisher type: Government
 * Information source:
 * Year-span: 2005–2006

Netherlands

 * Location: http://www.naamkunde.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=135&Itemid=69
 * Publisher type: academic
 * Information source: ??
 * Year-span: 1983–2006

Masculine

 * Location: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/specials/babiesnames_boys.asp
 * Publisher type: Government
 * Information source: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/Product.asp?vlnk=381
 * Year-span: 2003–2007

Feminine

 * Location: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/specials/babiesnames_girls.asp
 * Publisher type: Government
 * Information source: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/Product.asp?vlnk=381
 * Year-span: 2003–2007

Northern Ireland

 * Popular First Names, 2007
 * Babies First Names Bulletin 2006

Scotland

 * Location: http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/occpapers/popular-forenames-in-scotland-1900-2000.html
 * Publisher type: Government
 * Information source: (see Location link)
 * Year-span: 1900–2000


 * Location: http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files1/stats/pop-names-06-t2.pdf
 * Publisher type: Government
 * Information source: (the link to this document has been removed from the previous referring page)
 * Year-span: 2005–2006

Masculine

 * Location: http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/files/name5.pdf
 * Publisher type: Government
 * Information source: http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/occpapers/popular-forenames-in-scotland-1900-2000.html
 * Year-span: 2000

United States

 * Location: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/
 * Publisher type: Government
 * Information source: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/NOTES/note139/original_note139.html
 * Year-span: 1880's–2000's