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London's most popular names: interactive map displays capital's ethnic make-up
Danny Boyle's opening ceremony may have been denounced by one Conservative MP as "multicultural c**p", but a new data visualisation from researchers at UCL shows that Boyle was right to depict London as a truly multicultural city.
James Cheshire, a lecturer at the university's Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, took name frequency data from electoral rolle and displayed the most popular names in each neighbourhood.
The colour of the text, used to indicate the ethnic origin of each name, demonstrates the geographic spread of ethnic groups in the capital.
The font size for each surname label has been also scaled to give an idea of the number of people with that surname in each location.
Use the slider to toggle between the most popular name to the 15th most popular in each area. Zoom in and out to get a better view of your neighbourhood.
Browsing in this way, it is easy to spot some clear patterns.
One name – Smith – dominates much of the map, topping the table in hundreds of areas including all of Bexley and all but two neighbourhoods in Bromley, Sutton and Richmond.
Other British names including Brown (English) and Williams (Welsh) carpet central and south London, including Hammersmith, Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, Wandsworth and Lambeth.
Close up: the most popular names in Central London
The Bangladeshi name Begum leads in Tower Hamlets and south Camden, whereas the Indian names Patel and Shah are the most common names in Brent and Harrow.
Cohen, a Jewish name, is most popular in the south of the London borough of Barnet – in and around Golders Green and Hampstead Garden Suburb.
Scottish names make little impact in the top ranks but Scott, Wilson and Campbell all begin to appear from 3rd or 4th place and in the lower ranks, as do the Irish names Murphy and Kelly.
Dr Cheshire came across 15,000 different surnames (2,379 of which made it into the top 15 in one or more ward), from 38 different origins. He also notes that many people in London have adopted 'Anglicised' surnames.
If you can't find your own surname on the London map, you may want to check where it is most common around the world here.
Other visualisations by Dr Cheshire can be found at: www.spatialanalysis.co.uk