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The Hanks and Hodges Dictionaries are nice, but not based on producing new research - they tend to be more anthologizing older work, all of which could do with a good dust off, and some proper research doing. With computers now there is the facility to actually count and track surnames in older documents - a lot of the earlier work was done on 'instinct' and overall impressions...

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I'll sort out the Nomina ref. for you, but it may also be Reaney and Wilson's Dict. of English Surnames...

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I know pretty much all the people who currently get published in Nomina, so I'm fairly sure that a) they are research active and b) they are reliable :)