These British last names are better than beans on toast.

Long before Lorde, Adele, or even Cher, one name was all a person needed. In Britain before the Norman Conquest of 1066, people went by single names. If a village had an overabundance of Toms, one ...

Does your surname link you to royalty – or does it mark out your ancestors as fools, philanderers – or just plain ugly? From the common (Smith), unusual (Bonehill) to the downright bizarre (Gotobed), ...

Track the origins of your surname with these seven last name 'types'... Do you know where your surname comes from? For a lot of you reading this (this writer included) your surname won't actually have ...

Researchers have shown that men with the same British surname are highly likely to be genetically linked. The results of the research have implications in the fields of forensics, genealogy, ...

Lowry, Pankhurst, Gallagher, Gibb, and Coogan. These might be the surnames of some of the region's most famous figures, but don't feature in the top 20 most common surnames in Greater Manchester.

The four year study traced back the names - finding out if they came from a person's occupation or even hometown FROM Farah, Twelvetrees and Li, the origins of more than 45,000 surnames has been ...

Where have all the Floures gone? And what about all those Pauncefoots, Bythewoods, Footheads, Villins and Puscats? Thousands of quirky medieval English surnames recorded in the Domesday Book are ...