Or so asked Shakespeare. Now a new web site is showing where’s a name, by mapping out where surnames occur around the world.
The Public Profiler site plots eight million last names using data from electoral rolls and phone directories.
The site covers 300 million people in 26 countries, showing the origins of names and where families have moved to.
[…] The site – www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames – also reveals which of the five million forenames are most closely associated with different surnames and lists the top regions and cities for each surname.
Not surprisingly, the site is struggling to keep up with web traffic, so I actually haven’t had a chance to play with it yet. But it sounds pretty keen.
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