Following the publication of the seven-volume "Atlas of German Family Names," which was directed at a scholarly audience, it is now time to make the most important, most interesting, and most surprising findings and insights available to a wider audience. This work of popular science deals extensively with the origins, distribution, and meanings of the most important family names using numerous color maps and illustrations.

Damaris Nübling, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; Konrad Kunze, University of Freiburg.