Enter your family name in the World Names Profiler and find out the distribution of that name around the world. I used my maiden name, married name, and the names of several other people and got the expected results from what I know of their backgrounds -although I was surprised to find my legal last name is more common in Australia than anywhere else! I entered "Li", which is the most common family name on earth, but got no results, possibly because the statistics would be in Chinese characters. However, Alex's last name is most common in Indonesia, as expected. I used the graphic from Gerard Vlemmings (the Presurfer) as an illustration, as his name is most commonly found in the Netherlands. Link -via the Presurfer
Enter your family name in the World Names Profiler and find out the distribution of that name around the world. I used my maiden name, married name, and the names of several other people and got the expected results from what I know of their backgrounds -although I was surprised to find my legal last name is more common in Australia than anywhere else! I entered "Li", which is the most common family name on earth, but got no results, possibly because the statistics would be in Chinese characters. However, Alex's last name is most common in Indonesia, as expected. I used the graphic from Gerard Vlemmings (the Presurfer) as an illustration, as his name is most commonly found in the Netherlands. Link -via the Presurfer
Funny thing is, I know that the only reason my surname pops up anywhere else is because one of my husband's uncles has multiple residences around the world. (They spend most of their time on a gorgeous 45-foot boat, cruising the world!)
--TwoDragons
For "Wang" it didn't include China at all.
For "Hussein" no country in the Middle East was included, nor was Pakistan - but India showed up.
My guess is that their database has big holes in it.
Funny, we live in the states and none of us have ever been to Oz. I wonder if this Australia coincidences means something ;)
I put in a name and hit 'search', but no matter what name I put in, the same small group of countries were highlighted in grey
Boo
Bloody Scandinavian spelling one S or two S's son or sen or what?
Never knew that was such a popular name in Europe and the United States...