"What's in a name?" Juliet asked as she and Romeo tried to puzzle their way around the troubling problem of their warring families. Well, plenty, the most detailed investigation into surnames in ...

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 ...

Research led by University of Leicester geneticists, comparing the DNA of 150 pairs of men who share British surnames, has shown that about a quarter of pairs are linked genetically. Their findings ...

THERE is perhaps room for a new history of British surnames since Bardsley and Harrison published their works on the subject. Mr. Ewen has given his history a wider scope than Bardsley and has brought ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

British scientists, working on techniques which could help know a person's surname from his DNA, have found that between two men sharing the same surname there is a 24 per cent chance of having a ...

English Heritage has revealed the meaning of the surnames of England's star players as the Three Lions prepare to make history this weekend. England captain Harry Kane's family name is most common in ...

Scientists at the world-leading Department of Genetics at the University of Leicester – where the revolutionary technique of genetic fingerprinting was invented by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys- are ...