For now, to get started, this page contains some information generated by the Spatial Literacy Surname Profiler, which was featured on the BBC News website (What's in a surname?, 17 Jan 2006.)
There are a couple of maps that show the distribution of people with the family name 'Vine' around the UK in 1998 and 1881, and a couple of tables with statistics about the name. All graphs and tables retreived from the site on 17 January 2006.
('Frequency and Ethnicity' statistics for 'Vine' from Surname Profiler)
| Frequency | 1881 | 1998 | Change |
| Frequency | 2789 | 3349 | +560 |
| Rank Order | 1641 | 1822 | -181 |
| Occurrences per million names | 103 | 90 | -13 |
| Ethnicity of forenames | VINE |
| Number of occurrences as forename | 14 |
| Closest similar surname (phononym) | VENN |
| British or unknown | 99.36 |
| ---English or unknown | 98.44 |
| ---Irish | 0.53 |
| ---Scottish | 0.14 |
| ---Welsh | 0.25 |
| Jewish | 0.06 |
| Balkan | 0.00 |
| French | 0.00 |
| German or Dutch | 0.03 |
| Greek or Greek Cypriot | 0.06 |
| Hispanic | 0.14 |
| Hungarian | 0.00 |
| Italian | 0.03 |
| Nordic | 0.00 |
| Polish or Czech | 0.03 |
| Russian | 0.00 |
| Black African | 0.08 |
| North African | 0.03 |
| Turkish or Turkish Cypriot | 0.00 |
| Other Muslim | 0.14 |
| Indian | 0.17 |
| ---Hindi | 0.00 |
| ---Sikh | 0.03 |
| ---Other South Asian | 0.00 |
| East Asian | 0.06 |
('Geographical Location' statistics for 'Vine' from Surname Profiler )
| International Comparisons | Rate | As % of GB rate in 1998 |
| Great Britain Frequency (1998) | 3473 | 100 |
| Great Britain Frequency (1881) | 2789 | |
| Great Britain Rate (1998) | 90 | |
| Great Britain Rate (1881) | 103 | |
| Northern Ireland | 8.50 | 9.9 |
| Republic of Ireland | 0.00 | 0.0 |
| Australia | 95.22 | 110.3 |
| New Zealand | 51.21 | 59.4 |
| United States | 16.97 | 19.7 |
| Canada | 35.31 | 40.9 |
| Geographical Spread | Statistics |
| Great Britain top area (1881) | Brighton |
| Great Britain top area (1998) | Brighton |
| Great Britain top area index * | 566 |
| Great Britain top postal town | Pevensey |
| Number of UK gazetteer entries | None |
| County of gazetteer entry | Not applicable |
| Republic of Ireland top county | |
| Republic of Ireland top county index * | |
| Australia top state | Queensland |
| Australia top state index * | 125 |
| Australia top standard statistical division | Far West, NSW |
| New Zealand top province | Wellington |
| New Zealand top province index * | 236 |
| United States top state | Wyoming |
| United States top state index * | 622 |
| Number of gazetteer entires in Africa or Asian | none |
| African or Asian country with most gazetteer entries | |
| Number of gazetteer entries in African or Asian country named above |
| Social Demographics | Statistics |
| Category of surname | English - Other; Regional; South Eastern |
| Mosaic type with highest index # | Summer Playgrounds |
| Index of top Mosaic type * | 198 |
| % of people with a more rural name | 42 |
| % of people with a more high-status name | 10 |
| Cultural, Ethnic, Linguistic categories of surname | English |
# Mosaic is a social classification. More information on Mosaic is available from the Spatial Literacy site.
* Meaning of an 'index' : An 'index' shows whether the level of something is higher in one area than it is in another area. In this instance we are interested in whether the number of occurrences of a name per million population is higher in a particular area than it is elsewhere. Thus we compare the incidence of a name in the US state where it is most concentrated with the average level of concentration in the whole of the US; the incidence in Australia's top state with the Australian average; the incidence in New Zealand's top province with the New Zealand average; the incidence in GB's top postal area with the GB average.
* Calculation of an 'index' : If a name has a rate per million population in an area which is identical to its rate in a base comparison area then we say it has an index of '100'. An index of '200' for a the name Jenson in Ohio would mean that the name Jenson was twice as common, per million population, in Ohio as it was in the reference area, in this case the whole US. An index of '500' for Wong in Victoria would indicate that the name Wong was five times more common per 1,000,000 names in Victoria than in the whole of Australia. An index of '1000' for the name Penhaligon in New Zealand would mean it was ten times more common per 1,000.000 names in New Zealand than in Great Britain. By contrast an index of only '50' would indicate a name which was only half as common in a target area than in its reference area.
'Summer Playgrounds' is type K57, part of Group K - 'Rural Isolation'. From the Mosaic Website I downloaded the description file for the types (accessed 17 January 2006), which says the following about 'Rural Isolation' and 'Summer Playgrounds':
"Rural Isolation contains people whose pattern of living is distinctively rural. They live not just outside major population centres but also deep in the countryside, in small communities which have been little influenced by the influx of urban commuters. These are places where people with different levels of income share attachments to local communities, and where engagement with the community and with the natural environment are more important to most residents than material consumption."
"Summer Playgrounds is found in rural areas, where urban people own many second homes and where bed and breakfasts and other agro-tourism enterprises provide important sources of seasonal income."
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