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The origins of more than 45,000 surnames have been revealed by a new study. The findings have been published in the Oxford English Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.

Project leader, Professor Richard Coates told presenter Justin Webb "to the best of our knowledge everyone who has a name borne by 100 people or more will be in the dictionary", but at a later phase they hope to bring that figure down to 20.

(Photo: A hand pointing to a name in the dictionary. Credit: UWE Bristol)