Two percent kept their birth names as their sole surnames; 8 percent used a combination of names.
When al-Rawi was in Guantanamo, he asked the American authorities to find his former MI5 handlers so they would corroborate his story but, because he did not know their surnames, MI5 said it could not assist.
Studies of official statistics in theBook of Wei show that among the 123 northern non-Han surnames, 60 were already absent in the official records.
We calculated the proportion of the names with a given name less than six characters and a surname among major 100 Chinese surnames.2 The proportion of these authors in the data is 2.7%, and that of these authors further conditioned on publishing more than one paper is 1.1%.
The "Institut de la statistique du Québec" has published a detailed distribution of the abundance of these 4991 surnames [19].
Although branching process models were developed to address the extinction of surnames [15], they have been more widely employed within biological evolution [21], and have yet to make further impact on the study of cultural evolution, despite extensive theory borrowing by the latter from the former [15], [16], [17], [18].
From the initial 1,185 Chinese surnames, 1,133 were selected for the final list.
Among pacemaker recipients with Brady as a surname (n=8, 0.8%) and those with other surnames (n=991, 99.2%), age did not differ significantly (table 2).
It provides the names and place of enumeration (Parish and Registration District) for 29 million people, with a total of 425 000 unique surnames, ∼49 000 of which occur in more than 20 individual census records.
In mailing wave one, we mailed to members residing near KP medical centers serving the highest estimated proportion of African-American men and to members we identified with Chinese [ 2, 3] Spanish surnames [ 4].
In the first step of each mailing wave, we mailed a recruitment letter and a short questionnaire in English/Cantonese to potentially eligible health plan members with Chinese surnames [ 2, 3] or in English/Spanish to all other potentially eligible members.
