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A dataset containing the most frequent Russian last names of Zhuravlev (2005).

Usage

data(freq_last_names)

Format

A data table with 1006 rows and 3 variables:

surname

a last name (lowercase)

freq

the proportion relative to the most frequent surname within the sex

Details

The Russian surnames frequency table based on the research results of Zhuravlev (2015). The original table was extended with female surnames under assumption that the frequency of male and female surnames is equal.

License

There are no license informations provided by Zhuravlev A.F. explicitly. But the Problems of Onomastics journal is published on an open access basis under the terms of the Creative Commons "Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs" 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

References

Zhuravlev, A.F. (2005). On the Russian Family Names Statistics. Problems of Onomastics 2, pp. 126-146. URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10995/1929.