Aspects of maltese surnames

Mario CASSAR

1. Introduction
2. Some rambling thoughts
3. A stratigraphy of Maltese surnames
4. Hull’s theory of a Girgenti colony
5. Early census taking and surname rankings
6. Census 2005 and the commonest surnames in Malta
7. The pantheon of Maltese surnames
8. Surname frequencies by location
9. A snapshot of Gozo
10. The ‘Australian’ parallel sample
11. Cognates and doublets
12. Multiple surnames
13. Extinct surnames

Published with permission from Mario CASSAR