Genealogy

Genealogy Data: Frequently Occurring Surnames from Census 1990 – Names Files

NOTE: No specific individual information is given.

Files:

• dist.all.last [2M]
• dist.female.first [146k]
• dist.male.first [41k]

Each of the three files, (dist.all.last), (dist. male.first), and (dist female.first) contain four items of data. The four items are:

1. A "Name"
2. Frequency in percent
3. Cumulative Frequency in percent
4. Rank

In the file (dist.all.last) one entry appears as:

        MOORE       0.312       5.312       9 

In our search area sample, MOORE ranks 9th in terms of frequency. 5.312 percent of the sample population is covered by MOORE and the 8 names occurring more frequently than MOORE. The surname, MOORE, is possessed by 0.312 percent of our population sample.

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