A genealogy platform found 15 American surnames nearly extinct, some held by fewer than 100 people in the U.S.

We provide the largest compiled publicly available dictionaries of first, middle, and surnames for the purpose of imputing race and ethnicity using, for example, Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding ...

Italy: The land of pizza, pasta and prosecco. It’s also the land of some really cool-sounding last names. In countries around the world, there are specific meanings to the last names of people who ...

Oluale Kossula: That’s the name author Zora Neale Hurston used when she greeted Cudjo Lewis, the last known survivor of the transatlantic slave trade and the subject of her nonfiction book “Barracoon.