World Names Profiler


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

My surname is most common in France and Switzerland (of the countries listed). It's an arab name so I'm guessing if more arab countries were included I'd get very different results.
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LOL--my surname is almost unknown except in Germany. And my maiden name is about as rare as rocking horse dung worldwide.

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
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I got some weird results...

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.
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My maiden name is most popular in Australia. My married name is most popular in Australia. My sister's married name is most popular...in Australia.

Funny, we live in the states and none of us have ever been to Oz. I wonder if this Australia coincidences means something ;)
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My surname, which is of French origin surprisingly displays the least results from France.. though it is most common in Canada, which is where I'm from.
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Mine is Scandinavian in origin but die to spelling changes is most common in Scotland and Ireland.

Bloody Scandinavian spelling one S or two S's son or sen or what?
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Huh! Nifty site. I tried my last name and it seems to be quite accurate. A ton of hits in India, UK, Canada, and the US. Never knew my last name was so common.
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Funny, a few days ago I made the data of familienaam.be and familienaam.nl (websites that generate maps showing the distribution and frequency of surnames in Belgium and Holland) available in Google Earth. More info here: http://www.merkador.com/?q=content/familienamen Scroll down to introduce your name and generate an overlay for Google Earth.
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