The IGI -statistical aspects International comparisons . The emphasis is on the individual name, and on counting actual numbers of an individual name by area and time. Determining the incidence . Members of the Guild of One-Name Studies have collected data on rarer names. There is still much research to conduct on the incidence of leading surnames.
Surname profiling Actual names themselves are immaterial.
What is being determined is how many occurrences there are of names appearing once, twice, thrice and so on. Initially I hoped that someone else far more experienced would produce such a website to help a beginner like myself. Hopefully that will eventually happen. In the meantime, I have collated various statistical methods useful for one-name study, from a variety of sources. A Surname signature I have often wondered if it would be possible to condense the distribution and incidence data of a surname into a formula say, so that comparisons could be made against other names, or against the same name at various periods.