Nachnamen

Was uns Familiennamen erzählen

The most frequent Ukrainian Surname

Какая самая распространенная украинская фамилия? - Вопрос-ответ - Аргументы и Факты Украина

Top-10 according the Ukraine Census 2001:

1. Shevchenko (158.462)
2. Mel'nik (158.042)
3. Kovalenko (134.291)
4. Bondarenko
5. Tkachenko
6. Kravchenko
7. Koval'chuk
8. Koval'
9. Shevchuk
10. Savchenko

First 9 surnames are occupational ones (Sewer, Milner, Smith, Сooper, Weaver, Cutter, Blacksmith, Forger, Tailor) and only the 10th is patronymic (from Savva).

Mir, Cosmos and Legend were born in Moscow during this year)))

"Что в имени твоем": в Москве родились Мир, Космос и Легенда

Самыми популярными именами, которые москвичи давали в этом году своим детям, стали Артем и Софья. Среди экзотических имен появились Космос, Мир и Легенда. Об этом в среду сообщила журналистам исполняющая обязанности начальника управления ЗАГС Москвы Ирина Муравьева.По ее словам, в 2013г. в тройку самых популярных имен среди мальчиков вошли Артем, Александр и Максим. При этом имя Артем в этот году вытеснило с первого места имя... Читать далее > РБК. Общество

Noms et prénoms: Établir l’identité dans l’empire du choix

Virginia Descoutures and Baptiste Coulmont organize on December 11, 2013 at the INED (Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques) a one-day colloquium "Last and First Names: Establishing Identity in the Empire of Choice"  on the constraints related to forenames and surnames, now when the law allows almost any ...

http://coulmont.com/nomprenom/

Argumentaire

Le prénom et le nom de famille sont les premiers éléments que nous utilisons pour identifier et se faire identifier au sein de la société. Le nom de famille nous rattache à une certaine lignée (par la filiation) tandis que le prénom laissé au libre choix des parents permet de s’individualiser. Alors que, jusqu’à récemment, des habitudes locales et coutumières ou des règles juridiques restreignaient fortement la transmission du nom de famille ou l’inscription du prénom à l’état civil, il semble que les hommes et surtout les femmes disposent désormais d’une plus grande liberté de dénomination. Quel usage est-il fait de cette liberté ?

Le processus de libéralisation est bien visible en France. La loi du 8 janvier 1993 révise l’état civil et la filiation en supprimant tout contrôle a priori sur le choix du prénom et en facilitant les changements de prénom. Plus récemment, c’est le nom de famille qui s’est inscrit dans ce qui apparaît à première vue comme un « empire du choix ». La loi du 4 mars 2002, entrée en application en 2005 et portant réforme du nom de famille permet en effet aux parents de choisir, lors de la déclaration de naissance, de transmettre à leur(s) enfant(s) soit le nom du père, soit celui de la mère, soit encore un « double nom », c’est-à-dire un nom constitué des noms de chacun des parents « accolés dans l’ordre choisi par eux dans la limite toutefois d’un nom de famille pour chacun ». De même très récemment la Direction des affaires civiles et du Sceau a commencé à accepter les demandes de certaines personnes souhaitant retrouver leur nom de famille d’origine (après une francisation de ce dernier).

Mais ce processus est aussi visible ailleurs : en 1978 le Conseil de l’Europe adopte une résolution qui recommande aux Etats membres d’assurer ou de promouvoir l’égalité des époux en droit civil, notamment en ce qui concerne l’attribution du nom de famille. Pour autant les législations des pays européens divergent : les pays nordiques, les Pays-Bas, l’Allemagne, l’Autriche et la Suisse doivent choisir entre le nom du père et celui de la mère ; en Espagne et au Portugal il est possible (comme en France mais aussi depuis 1981 au Québec) de transmettre soit le nom de la mère, soit celui du père, soit les deux noms accolés dans l’ordre choisi par les parents, tandis que la Belgique et l’Italie n’autorisent à ce jour que la transmission du patronyme.

Des contextes nationaux différents semblent donc s’inscrire à présent dans une conception à la fois plus libérale du droit au nom et au prénom, et plus égalitaire (entre les femmes et les hommes), dans laquelle importe l’expression de la volonté. Mais cette libéralisation est partielle, « l’empire du choix » n’est peut-être qu’une façade. Elle reste soumise aux centres d’intérêts de l’État : sécurisation de l’identité et des papiers d’identité, informatisation de l’état civil etc. L’identité onomastique est ainsi peut-être beaucoup plus fixe et cristallisée aujourd’hui qu’elle pouvait l’être par le passé, quand les noms d’usage pouvaient s’imposer.

Elle reste aussi soumise à l’empire du national : noms et prénoms sont des marqueurs (ou perçus comme tels) de l’origine nationale des ascendants et ascendantes. Ils peuvent ainsi servir de support de discrimination, de revendication identitaire mais aussi de stratégie d’invisibilisation.

Enfin elle reste soumise à la domination masculine, intériorisée tant par les hommes que par les femmes, aux implicites des rapports sociaux de sexe. Le choix de la transmission d’un nom de famille peut désormais faire l’objet de négociations entre parents. Or l’Insee indique que près de 83% des enfants nés en 2012 portent uniquement le nom de leur père ; quand 8,5% d’entre eux portent le double nom, la première position revient au nom du père dans la majorité des cas (environ quatre fois sur cinq). Que disent ces parents qui éprouvent une plus grande satisfaction à être tous les deux représentés dans le nom de leur enfant ? Que disent les femmes qui conservent leur patronyme et celles qui adoptent celui de leur conjoint ? Quels choix font-elles en fonction des différentes législations ?

Tout choix était-il impossible sous le Code Napoléon ? Comment le nom se transmettait-il dans le cas de mariage « en gendre » (quand le gendre venait habiter dans la terre de son épouse, prenait-il le nom de la terre) ? Dans quelles circonstances certaines femmes ont-elles réussi à transmettre leur nom ? Quel jeu était alors possible avec les règles juridiques et coutumières ? Quelles furent, quelles sont, les mobilisations de juristes ou de « cause lawyers » autour du nom et du prénom ? Comment les juges, les élus et le pouvoir exécutif, depuis une soixantaine d’années, ont-ils ouvert, par étape, un processus de libéralisation ?

Dans quelle mesure nom et prénom sont-ils supports de discriminations (liées à l’origine, au sexe) sur le marché du travail (ou ailleurs) ? Le prénom, dans la quasi-totalité des cas, a un genre, qui correspond au sexe de l’état civil (bien que cette correspondance ne soit pas requise en droit). L’identité revendiquée – par le choix d’un nom ou d’un prénom particulier – a-t-elle un « coût » ?

Le sens commun présente souvent la prédominance du patronyme comme le pendant « naturel » de la grossesse et de l’accouchement, aux hommes le symbolique et aux femmes le « charnel ». Ces distinctions entre culture et nature, production (le nom peut être perçu comme un capital social, symbolique et culturel) et reproduction ne sont pas nouvelles, ces représentations sont-elles toujours d’actualité ? Pour autant, l’attachement au patronyme de nos jours revêt-il la même signification qu’autrefois ?

Enfin qu’en est-il en dehors du contrôle étatique ? Quand des institutions plus ou moins solides (Églises, sociétés « secrètes », mondes artistiques) développent en toute « liberté » des usages particuliers du nom (nom de religion, pseudonymes etc.) les règles que les individus se donnent sont-elles homologues aux règles de droit ?

Il s’agit donc, dans ce colloque, de prendre pour acquis nombre de travaux ayant indiqués combien nom et prénom servent à matérialiser l’identité sociale, et d’étudier des situations empiriques mouvantes, changeantes, quand le choix offert peut servir de révélateur des contraintes symboliques. Ce colloque s’organisera autour de la présentation pluridisciplinaire de travaux de recherche empirique.

Modalités de soumission

Les propositions, entre 1500 et 3000 signes maximum, sont attendues pour le 1er juillet 2013. Elles sont à envoyer à baptiste.coulmont@univ-paris8.fr et virginie.descoutures@ined.fr

Après évaluation les réponses parviendront avant fin juillet.

Comité scientifique :

Tiphaine Barthélémy, Professeure de sociologie et d’anthropologie sociale (CURAPP, Université de Picardie Jules Verne)

Anne-Marie Devreux, Sociologue, Directrice de recherche au CNRS (CRESPPA-CSU, Université Paris 8)

Agnès Fine, Anthropologue, Directrice d’études à l’EHESS (LISTT-Cas, Université Toulouse Le Mirail)

Wilfried Rault, Sociologue, Chargé de recherche (Ined)

Comité d’organisation :

Baptiste Coulmont, Sociologue, Maître de conférences (CRESPPA-CSU, Université Paris 8)

Virginie Descoutures, Sociologue, Allocataire post-doctorante de l’IEC (Ined & CRESPPA-GTM)

Bibliographie indicative

[collectif] [2002], Controverse “Le nom du père en question.” Travail, Genre et Sociétés, 7, p.173–191.

Brunet, G., Darlu, P. & Zei, G. eds. [2001], Le patronyme: histoire, anthropologie, société, Paris: Editions du CNRS.

Combes, D. & Devreux, A.-M. [1991], Construire sa parenté. Reconnaissance, légitimation, dénomination des enfants, CSU (Centre de sociologie urbaine) – IRESCO/CNRS.

Coulmont, B. [2011], Sociologie des prénoms, Paris: La Découverte.

Duchesne, L. [2006], Les noms de famille au Québec: aspect statistique et distribution spatiale, Québec (Canada): Institut de la statistique du Québec.

Feschet, V. [2004], La transmission du nom de famille en Europe occidentale (fin XXe-début XXIe siècles). L’Homme. Revue française d’anthropologie, [169], p.61–88.

Fine, A. ed. [2008], États civils en questions. Papiers, identités, sentiment de soi., Paris: Éditions du CTHS.

Fine, A. & Ouellette, F.-R. eds. [2005], Le Nom dans les sociétés occidentales contemporaines, Toulouse: Presses universitaires du Mirail.

Lefebvre-Teillard, A. [1990], Le nom. Droit et histoire, Paris: Presses universitaires de France.

Lieberson, S., Dumais, S. & Baumann, S. [2000], The instability of Androgynous Names: The Symbolic Maintenance of Gender Boundaries. The American Journal of Sociology, 105[5], p.1249–1287.

Masson, C. & Felzenszwalbe, N. [2012], Rendez-nous nos noms ! : Quand les juifs revendiquent leur identité perdue, Desclée de Brouwer.

De Pina-Cabral, J. [2010], The truth of personal names. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 16[2], p.297–312.

Pinçon, M. & Pinçon-Charlot, M. [1990], Le nom de la lignée comme garantie de l’excellence sociale. Ethnologie française, 20[1], p.91–97.

Schulz, M. [2009], Filiation et nom 2e éd., Paris: Berger-Levrault.

Sue, C.A. & Telles, E.E. [2007], Assimilation and Gender in Naming. American Journal of Sociology, 112[5], p.1383–1415.

Valetas, M.-F. [1992], Avenir du nom de la femme et transformation des structures familiales. Population, 47[1], p.105–132.

Valetas, M.-F. [2002], La subordination patronymique de la femme. Travail, genre et sociétés, 7, p.180–184.

Weber, F. [2005], Le sang, le nom, le quotidien. Une sociologie de la parenté pratique, Montreuil: Aux lieux d’être.

Biddy (104) parties in style as name slowly vanishes

Biddy (104) parties in style as name slowly vanishes

CALLING someone an "old biddy" is not usually recommended but one Biddy, who celebrated her 104th birthday yesterday, is proud of her 'seniority'.

And Bridget (Biddy) McGee, from Annagry, Co Donegal, has another reason to be pleased with her longevity as a new study shows that there are very few Biddys or Paddys left among Irish ex-pats.

Research from Durham and Northumbria University, released yesterday, revealed that traditional Irish Catholic names such as Patrick and Bridget came close to dying out due to fears of discrimination among Irish immigrants in Britain.

https://www.interiordigs.com/productcart/pc/showsearchresults.asp?IDBrand=46

Irish Isonymy Project

Irish Isonymy Project - Northumbria University, Newcastle UK

Surnames, Forenames and the Application of Isonymy to Historical Data: The Irish in Nineteenth-Century Britain

The Project Context
The study of the Irish in 19th century Britain has yielded numerous path-breaking works which help us to understand the relationship between the islands of Britain and Ireland. Quantitative studies, however, are relatively few in number; and those which exist tend to focus on the census as a source for historical reconstruction. However, the limitations of the UK census means, with its failure to record specific birthplace in any but a small minority of cases, means that, till now, very little written has been written about the specific county of origins of Irish migrants. However, we believe that uncovering these origins helps us still better to understand the specific sub-pathways of migration which Irish people followed in migrating from one island to the other. Our project has, for some years, sought to shed greater light on the issue of interregional connections of this sort by applying a technique called Isonymy to the questions of origins which the census cannot answer.

The Project Method

Isonymy—a quantitative method based on the distribution and frequency of surnames—has been used extensively in biological anthropology to investigate the structure populations, but has seldom been applied in social sciences. Research on the origins and migration pattern of the Irish in Britain in the late nineteenth century is hampered by lack of detailed birthplace attribution in the 19th century censuses.

Between 2002 and 2005 our research was funded under the ESRC Research Methods programme. More details can be found on the CCSR website: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/projects/posters/smith.shtml. In addition, a poster explaining our methods and findings by case study can be found here: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/5007/sasspdf/isonymyposter.pdf.

We are currently completing a monograph which explores the issues of origins and interregional connection by focusing on the Irish in the north of England.

Forenames

In addition, we have more recently added the study of forename selection as a way of examining the cultural evolution of non-Irish practices. Our research shows that, over time, the Irish in Britain ceased using classic Irish forenames, such as Patrick and Bridget, favouring neutral names instead.

Names and Socio-Economic Integration

We have also begun to use surnames’ analysis to selection second generation migrants to test, via occupational analysis, whether or not the Irish climbed the socio-economic ladder over time. Our research on data on mining occupations from the 1881 census suggests that advancement was slow and that certain types of prized mining occupations were closed to the Irish.

Publications 

MacRaild, Donald M. and Malcolm Smith [with John A. Burnett and Kyle Hughes], ‘Scottish Migrants in the northern “Irish Sea industrial zone”, 1841-1911: Preliminary Patterns and Perspectives’, Northern History, forthcoming 2012.

MacRaild, Donald M. and Malcolm Smith, ‘Migration and Emigration, 1600-1945’, in Liam Kennedy and Philip Ollerenshaw (eds), Ulster Since 1600: Politics, Economy, and Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 140-59.

Smith, Malcolm, and Donald M. MacRaild, ‘The Irish in the mining industry in England and Wales in the 19th Century: Evidence from the 1881 Census’, Irish Economic and Social History, 36 (2009), pp 36-62.

Smith, Malcolm, and Donald M. MacRaild, ‘Nineteenth-century population structure of Ireland and of the Irish in England and Wales: an analysis by isonymy’, American Journal of Human Biology, 21, 3 (2009), pp 283-289.

Smith, Malcolm, and Donald M. MacRaild, ‘Paddy and Biddy no more: An evolutionary analysis of the decline in Irish Catholic forenames among descendents of nineteenth century Irish migrants to Britain’, Annals of Human Biology, 36, 5 (2009), pp 595-608.

Smith, Malcolm, and Donald M. MacRaild, ‘Origins of the Irish in Northern England: An Isonymic Analysis of Data from the 1881 Census’, Immigrants & Minorities, vol. 27, nos 2/3 (2009), pp 152-77.

Man's surname can be guessed through DNA, Israeli researchers discover

Israeli and American geneticists have developed a method that can help people find family members around the world – so spy agencies will be interested too. A male’s genome contains information that can help scientists guess his surname, American and Israeli researchers have discovered. The findings have serious implications for data privacy; intelligence services around the world are bound to be interested.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/man-s-surname-can-be-guessed-through-dna-israeli-researchers-discover.premium-1.495100

or here

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/341734

and here

http://forward.com/articles/169585/jewish-dna-can-predict-family-name-study/

In regard thereto, I also advise to read this:

National Geographic cloud map of surnames in the U.S.

from here (repost): http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2011/01/a-smarter-word-cloud-likes-and-not-likes.html 

National Geographic cloud map of surnames

Anytime someone expands the possibilities of a chart type, like the word cloud, it's a commendable project.

 Here is a close-up of California:

So I'm quite enthusiastic about what they tried to do here. Not every new feature is successful, though.

These are the things I like:

• Using colors that mean something: they use different colors to indicate different countries of origin of particular surnames. Good idea. I prefer to have the same color and different shades for each continent.
• For once, the data being depicted is not a speech or a piece of text; it's a set of surnames.

• This chart (or map) is multi-variate: it tries to address deeper questions such as the correlation between geography and origin of popular names, and the correlation between geography and popularity of names, etc. This is an important advance from all those word clouds out there that tells us nothing but the frequency of words in a document. In general, statistical clustering methods can be combined with text mining methods to develop multivariate word clouds.
• The designers realize it's a futile -- as well as ill-advised -- task to try to print every name on the map so they only include the top 25 names in each state. As I explain below, I'm not happy with this inclusion/exclusion criterion but the key point is by taking out the minor bits of data ("noise"), the chart is more able to draw our attention to the more interesting parts.

These are things I don't like:

• They really ought to have used relative popularity rather than absolute popularity. This is another area of improvement for all word clouds. Today, word clouds plot the number of times a specific word appears in a piece of text. We often try to compare several word clouds against each other; and when we do that, the only sensible measure is the proportion (relative frequency) of time a specific word appear. Say, one compares Obama and McCain speeches by comparing two word clouds. If these two speeches differ significantly in length, then comparing the number of times each candidate use "education" words is silly -- we have to compare the number of times per length of the speech.
•  The cutoff of top 25 names in each state suffers a similar problem. The 26th most popular name in California, a populous state, is of more interest than say the 15th most popular name in Montana (or insert your favorite small state). Instead, a more sensible cutoff would be including names that account for at least 2 percent (say) of a state's population. By doing this, the more populated states would have more entries than the less populated states.

• Given the above bullets, it is not surprising that the word-size scale has serious problems. Because it is an absolute number and not relative to each state's population, the big words can only show up in populous states. In other words, the size of the words tells us about the geographical distribution of the U.S. population. This insight is available on pretty much every map used to plot data that has ever been produced. The one thing that all these maps never fail to tell us is the fact that most of the U.S. population is bi-coastal. Unfortunately, the real message of the map -- in this case, the geography of surnames -- is subsumed.
• And then, the map invents false data. Notice that there are 1,250 geographic sites on the map (25 names times 50 states). This is a visually prominent feature of the map, and yet there is no rhyme or reason as to where the names are placed, with the exception of respecting state boundaries. The casual reader may think that the appearance of the Chinese name "Lee" in the inner, central part of California implies that Lee-named Chinese-Americans aggregate in those parts of California. Far from the truth!

So, I think they did a reasonable job in rethinking the possibilities of word clouds. It's well intentioned and there is room for improvement.

The History of Surnames: Birth of Surnames

Spatial Analysis of Surnames

Today I'd like to present research of Dr. James Cheshire from UCL (University College London) who works there as a Lecturer for Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualization.

photo is from here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/people/?school=casa&upi=JACHE16

He has spent the last few years investigating the geography of family names (also called surnames). He works with the team who assembled the UCL Department of Geography Worldnames Database that contains the names and geographic locations of over 300 million people in nearly 30 countries (a few of these are yet to be added to the website). His research has focussed on the 152 million or so people they have data for in Europe and they all come from publicly available telephone directories or electoral rolls. He also had access to a historical dataset for Great Britain in the form of the 1881 census.  He has tried to answer two questions:

1. Is it possible to approximately establish the origin of a surname based on its modern day geographic distribution?

2. Are particular surnames more likely to be found together and if so do they form distinct geographic regions?

In the past surname research has involved  lot of manual work to create a detailed history of a particular name. With so many surnames in the database he had to think of some automated ways to do this computationally. The patterns he produces are much more generalised than the manual work- he finds broad patterns rather than specific genealogical facts- but they provide useful context for population genetics, migration, historical geography and demography. If you want to find out more about this research here are titles for the papers he had published in academic journals:

The Surname Regions of Great Britain. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1319496/

Creating a Regional Geography of Great Britain Through the Spatial Analysis of Surnames. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1301100/

Identifying Spatial Concentrations of Surnames. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1326357/

People of the British Isles: A Preliminary Analysis of Genotypes and Surnames in a UK Control Population. http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v20/n2/full/ejhg2011127a.html

Delineating Europe’s Cultural Regions: Population Structure and Surname Clustering. http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/human_biology/v083/83.5.cheshire.pdf

For a full list see his UCL academic profile: https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/research/personal?upi=JACHE16

The left map of the post is from the last paper he listed and shows how the surname regions vary across Europe. The map on the right shows how confident he is of the regions based on the number of times they emerge in the cluster analysis.

Info from here: http://spatialanalysis.co.uk/2011/12/name/

Austrian Surname Maps

Austrian Surnames Distribution is possible by means of

http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen

Sometimes it's difficult to switch between German and Austrian mapping... but we can find some interesting examples:

Dispesion of Schwarzenneger name.

The second website is from the group of www.dynastree.com, which embraces more than dozens sites for various countries:

http://www.verwandt.at/

Map for surname Berger.


Even through these websites, we can see that surnames are not limited by administrative boundaries.
For instance, here you are the Austrian repartition of family name HÖCK:

But its distribution would be more understandable while comparing Germany and Austria:

By so doing, we may conclude that surnames landscape represent rather gradual continuum than clustering zones.

http://www.miparentela.com/mapas-ar/

Surnames mapping for Argentina:

 http://www.miparentela.com/mapas-ar/

map for Ortiz surname:

The site doen't function very well. Very often there are some errors. As you can see it the same design as for the last French site...

http://www.familleunie.fr/cartes

The third French website for surnames mapping is

http://www.familleunie.fr/cartes

Here is the map for surname PETIT (Little or Small)

By means of this portal, I found out that in France there are JEANDILLON (7 persons) and JEANDILLOUT (4 persons) as well. That's all. I must confess that the website in question functions sometimes with troubles and errors.

http://www.genealogie.com/nom-de-famille/

Almost the same is possible with the help of website

http://www.genealogie.com/nom-de-famille/

At least, they use the sama data from INSEE.

http://www.geopatronyme.com

Today I would like to introduce the first French website with a surname-distribution mapping functions:

 http://www.geopatronyme.com/

It can locate all surnames in France between 1891 and 1990. Thanks to Napoleon, French Republic does possess a national register that is now available. In Germany, we don't have any and all we have is to use the projected phone directories. In Austria, they created a "Melderegister" in 2002. As we can state France provides a lot opportunities to research on surnames distribution. Thank you, Napoleon!!!!

For instance, I will try to trace the surname of my doctoral supervisor Prof. Jean-François Jeandillou.

Photo from here: http://www.leseditionsdeminuit.com/images/3/auteur_1575.jpg

Morphologically, it could reasonably be argued that this is the most famous name and surname of the Christian World. In its heart, we recognize the stem "Jean". It was recorded from the 12th century a.d. onwards in every European country, and in a vast range of spellings, of which there are believed to be over fourteen hundred in total. These range from the base forms such as Jon or John (England & Wales), Evan (Wales), Ian (Scotland), Shane (Ireland), Ivan (Russia) and Jean (France), to the Italian Giovanni, Zanni and Zoane, the Polish Janus, the Czeck Jan, Janak and Jansky, to the diminutives Jenkin, Jeannet, Nannini, Zanicchi, and Gianuzzi, the patronymics Johnson, Joynson, Jenson, Jocie, Ivanshintsev, and Ivashechkin. However spelt, all have derived from the biblical Hebrew "Yochanan", which translates as " He who Jehovah has favoured (with a son)".

Read more: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Jeandillou#ixzz2EH2JFicQ

But if we read here we can be surprised by the following statement: "The meaning of Jeandillou come may come from a profession, such as the name "Gardener" which was given to people of that profession".

Statistically, in France of 1891-1915 there had been only 16 persons with JEANDILLOU as surname: 15 in the department Haute Vienne (with the highest concentration in Châteauneuf-la-Forêt ) and one in Paris.

The red dot to the right is Châteauneuf-la-Forêt. 

and the same with titles:

I have found some pictures from that time:

Let's imagine, maybe here the Jeandillou's grandfather walked through... But the downtown is actually looking like that:

For the period of 1916-1940, 14 persons had been given with the surname in question:  2 in Paris and 12 in Haute-Vienne department with the greatest frequency in Saint-Paul commune:

It looked very pretty:

or like that:

with the coat of arms like that:

and now:

Between 1941 and 1965, there were already 32 newborners named Jeandillou. My Professor was born in 1959 (like my father!!!). So, he is to be found in the number of 32: 1 in Vendee (85), 6 in Paris (75) and 25 in Haute Vienne department concentrated mostly in Saint Bonnet Briance:

An interesting photo of 1959 from one of the school in that place:

or photos from a college Châteauneuf-la-Forêt of 1958:

or in the 1960s

Maybe some of them are relatives of my professor!!! Who knows...

Among the actual bearers of this surname, Prof. Jeandillou is the most famous. You can find just some names on Facebook. Maybe another person named Jeandillou is Patrick Jeandillou - French karatist with 6th DAN and champion of France and Europe.

But there is no certainty that they are relatives.

So, we may conclude that roots of Prof. Jeandillou are coming from the department of Haute Vienne.  And if it's based upon the stem "Jean", it's not logic that this name is not to be found in other regions of France. Well, let's continue to research!!!!

Professor Konrad Kunze

The next hero of Onomastics is my actual supervisor Professor Konrad Kunze. He is a great scholar, dedicated to onomastics, namely digital onomastics. He has been a founder of German Surname Atlas project to the end of 90s. Now he is Emeritus at the University of Freiburg, but you can see him every day in his office where he does continue to work with volumes representing the geography of surnames within Germany. He is very kind and helpful!!!

from hier (in German): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Kunze

Professor Konrad Kunze

Konrad Kunze (17. Mai 1939 in Titisee-Neustadt) ist ein deutscher Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaftler. Er lehrte bis zu seiner Pensionierung 2004 an der Universität Freiburg.

Laufbahn 

Nach dem Abitur, das er 1958 auf dem Fürstenberg-Gymnasium Donaueschingen ablegte, studierte Kunze an den Universitäten Freiburg, Innsbruck und Würzburg Latein, Germanistik und katholische Theologie. In Freiburg promovierte er 1966 mit einer Dissertation zum Thema: „Texte und Studien zur Legende der heiligen Maria Aegyptiaca im deutschen Sprachgebiet“. Er habilitierte sich 1984 an der Universität Würzburg mit einer Arbeit über das „Sondergut der elsässischen Legenda Aurea“.

Seit 1970 war er Akademischer Oberrat am Deutschen Seminar der Universität Freiburg, seit 1992 außerplanmäßiger Professor. 1983 bis 1993 leitete er das Projekt „Deutsche Hagiographie“ bei der Würzburger Forschergruppe „Prosa des deutschen Mittelalters“. Seine Hauptforschungsgebiete sind deutsche und lateinische Literatur des Mittelalters, Legenden- und Heiligenforschung, Ikonographie, Sprachgeschichte, Dialektologie und Namenforschung.

Kunze war einer der ersten Namenforscher, der die moderne Computertechnik nutzte, indem er elektronische Adressbücher bzw. Telefonverzeichnisse auswertete, um festzustellen, in welchen Gegenden welcher Name besonders häufig vorkommt. Gemeinsam mit Damaris Nübling vom Deutschen Institut der Universität Mainz initiierte und leitet er seit 2005 das von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft geförderte Projekt „Deutscher Familiennamenatlas“.

Öffentliches Wirken

Seit 2003 betreut Kunze eine Rubrik zur Namenkunde im Programm von SWR4 Südbaden, in dem Hörerinnen und Hörer Herkunft und Bedeutung ihres Namens erfragen können. Auch der von ihm herausgegebene dtv-Atlas über die Namenkunde, der immer noch in hoher Auflage erscheint, gilt als Standardwerk für die Namenkunde. Kunze ist darüber hinaus ein viel gefragter Referent zur Namenkunde, der auch außerhalb der Universität regelmäßig Vorträge hält.
Auch auf einem anderen Spezialgebiet, der mittelalterlichen Kulturwissenschaft, wurde Kunze einem breiten Publikum bekannt: sein Buch „Himmel in Stein. Das Freiburger Münster“, mit dem er in die Symbolwelt des Freiburger Münsters einführt, hat eine weite Verbreitung außerhalb der Fachwissenschaft erfahren.

Ehrungen

Landes-Lehrpreis Baden-Württemberg 1994
Festschrift „Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur“ zum 65. Geburtstag, Hamburg 2004

Schriften (Auswahl)

Studien zur Legende der heiligen Maria Aegyptiaca im deutschen Sprachgebiet (= Philologische Studien und Quellen. H. 49, ISSN 0554-0674). Schmidt, Berlin 1969.
als Herausgeber mit Hans Fromm, Kurt Gärtner und Klaus Grubmüller: Konrad von Fussesbrunnen: Die Kindheit Jesu (= Litterae 42). Ausgewählte Abbildungen zur gesamten handschriftlichen Überlieferung. Kümmerle, Göppingen 1977, ISBN 3-87452-331-4.

als Herausgeber: Die Legende der Heiligen Maria Aegyptiaca. Ein Beispiel hagiographischer Überlieferung in 16 unveröffentlichten deutschen, niederländischen und lateinischen Fassungen (= Texte des späten Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit. Bd. 28). Schmidt, Berlin 1978, ISBN 3-503-00582-X.
zusammen mit Wolfgang Kleiber und Heinrich Löffler: Historischer südwestdeutscher Sprachatlas. Aufgrund von Urbaren des 13. – 15. Jahrhunderts (= Bibliotheca Germanica 22A–22B). 2 Bände (Bd. 1, Text: Einleitung, Kommentar und Dokumentationen. Bd. 2, Karten: Einführung, Haupttonvokalismus, Nebentonvokalismus, Konsonantismus.) In Weiterführung der im Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde Freiburg unter Leitung von Friedrich Maurer geschaffenen Grundlagen. Francke, Bern/ München 1979, ISBN 3-7720-1440-2.
Himmel in Stein. Das Freiburger Münster. Vom Sinn mittelalterlicher Kirchenbauten. Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) u. a. 1980, ISBN 3-451-18279-3 (13., Auflage der Gesamtausgabe. ebenda 2007, ISBN 978-3-451-29254-5).

als Herausgeber: Das Sondergut (= Die Elsässische „Legenda aurea“. Bd. 2 = Texte und Textgeschichte. Bd. 10). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1983, ISBN 3-484-36010-0.
zusammen mit Hubert Klausmann und Renate Schrambke: Kleiner Dialektatlas. Alemannisch und Schwäbisch in Baden-Württemberg (= Themen der Landeskunde. H. 6). Konkordia-Verlag, Bühl/Baden 1993, ISBN 3-7826-0166-1 (3., durchgesehene und ergänzte Auflage. ebenda 1997).
dtv-Atlas Namenkunde. Vor- und Familiennamen im deutschen Sprachgebiet (= dtv 3234). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, München 1998, ISBN 3-423-03234-0 (5., durchgesehene und korrigierte Auflage. (= dtv 3266 Reihe „dtv-Atlas“). ebenda 2004, ISBN 3-423-03266-9.
Atlas Namenkunde. Vor- und Familiennamen im deutschen Sprachgebiet (= Digitale Bibliothek 124). Digitale Version. Directmedia-Publishing, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89853-524-X.

Mitarbeit an:
Flurnamenbuch Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1993.
Topographische Karte 1:25000, Landesvermessungsamt Baden-Württemberg, Neuausgabe 1980-97.
Bibliotheca Sanctorum, Università Lateranense, Roma 1961-69.
Lexikon der christlichen Ikonographie, Rom/Freiburg 1970-76.
Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon, Berlin/New York 1978-2005.
Lexikon des Mittelalters, München/Zürich 1980-99.
Enzyklopädie des Märchens, Berlin/New York 1975ff.
Dictionnaire de spiritualité ascétique et mystique, Paris 1932-2002.
Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturwissenschaft, Berlin/New York 1997ff.

Literatur

Freiburger Bibliographisches Taschenbuch der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität. Jg. 8, 1997, ZDB-ID 985603-1, S. 142.
Schriftenverzeichnis bis 2004 in: Václav Bok, Ulla Williams, Werner Williams-Krapp (Hrsg.): Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur. Festschrift für Konrad Kunze zum 65. Geburtstag (= Studien zur Germanistik. Bd. 10). Kovač, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-8300-1457-0, S. 418–433.