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Puey

Puey, also written Puig. Attested in Spain, borne by about 301 people in the registers this map holds.

Also written

A person linked these — Wikidata's «said to be the same as», or a family archive that worked it out from documents.

Puig

The same name, spelt two ways

One systematic substitution — s for z, w for v, ch for h — where BOTH spellings are independently attested surnames. Kosina and Kozina are one man in two clerks' handwriting. Stronger than sounding alike, weaker than somebody having checked.

Puy

Only sounds alike

An algorithm's guess. Useful for casting a net, and not evidence.

PeyPuePoeyPueoPoueyPueyo

What Wikidata says this name is

Copied from Wikidata, not worked out here. It is crowd-sourced and wrong in places, which is why the item is linked below rather than the claim simply repeated.

  • multiple languages the language of the name

    Which is not where a family is from. A Polish surname can be borne by people whose forebears never saw Poland, and often is.

Q118164714 on Wikidata ↗ — the item every line above came from.

It is also the name of a place

2 places drawn, the largest being Puig, PuyPuy — 2Puig — 7,851
Where those places are. A dot is a settlement whose name is this surname, sized by its population — not a claim that anybody of the name lives there. Phonetic neighbours are listed below but not drawn: putting a machine's guess on the ground would dress it up as geography.

This is as close to an origin as this map will go. A surname that is also a place name often came from it — and often did not: plenty are occupations or patronymics that happen to collide with a place, and plenty of places are named after a family rather than the other way round. It is a fact with a source, which is more than an etymology page offers.

  • Puig Spain pop. 7,851 a spelling of the name
  • Puy Italy pop. 2 a spelling of the name
  • Pueyo Spain pop. 321 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
  • Pey Italy pop. 27 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling

Where it is borne, and where a record names it

Attested in 1 country: SpainSpain — 301 people
A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. Blank is not absence. This draws the one country where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

Spain

301 Borne — a state counted them — Frecuencia de apellidos, Censos de población (INE).

Whose archive to write to

34,525 of 35,936 volumes held for Spain overlap the 1600s, 1650s, 1700s, 1720s, 1750s, 1770s, 1790s, 1810s, 1820s, 1830s, 1840s, 1850s, 1860s, 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s — the decades Puey is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Puey. The commonest kinds: Church and parish registers, Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Immigration and emigration. See everything this atlas holds for Spain →

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