{"id":9093,"date":"2006-02-20T13:03:38","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T20:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/02\/20\/names-across-the-us.html"},"modified":"2006-02-20T13:03:38","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T20:03:38","slug":"names_across_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/20\/names_across_th.html","title":{"rendered":"Names across the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fun site that you can enter a surname into and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gens-us.net\/map\/genera.html\" target=\"_blank\">see how it&#8217;s distributed across the US<\/a>.  Hill is common enough to be pretty widespread, but more exotic names (like Margie&#8217;s and Doyce&#8217;s surnames) are a bit more fun to look up.<\/p>\n<p>(Sort of wish it would average it out based on state population, as an option, but still entertaining.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fun site that you can enter a surname into and see how it&#8217;s distributed across the US. 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