SUrname HEritage Classifier

Documentation: https://5uperpalo.github.io/surname_heritage_classifier/

A hobby project to classify surnames to countries and areas of the world. An attempt for an open source alternative to paid services:

• https://nationalize.io/our-data
• https://namsor.app/
• https://forebears.io/onograph/
• https://census.name/
  • ~1000e for their database

used data:

• data/name_dataset
  • google drive link
• data/annotated_names_NamePrism.tsv
• kaggle surname-dataset-classification
  • data/surname-nationality.csv
  • data/surnames_with_splits.csv
• data/final_all_names_code.csv
• data/name2lang.txt

aggregated data:

• supercom storage

code based on:

• https://www.kaggle.com/code/yonatankpl/surname-classification-with-bert

other ideas:

• query names and origin countries somehow from wiki https://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/13199
  • maybe somehow get more surnames from here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Names
• rerun data gathering from wiki-nationality-estimate