Select Surnames is a freely-accessible website, written by UK resident Colin Shelley, devoted to surnames. It "contains narratives for more than one thousand select last names in the English-speaking world". There are also some from continental Europe. Each of the surnames has its own page, many of them containing dozens of paragraphs about the name origin and prominent families.
Several specialist pages cover subjects such as "Surname History" and "Top Ten Surnames" and currently famous people.
There are related pages about top websites in three different categories.