Last Name World Map
Each family has to be taken on a case by case basis.
Last name world map. Find out what countries your family name is most common in with public profiler 39 s world names search and map. For example surnames were largely adopted between the 11th and 16th centuries in england between the 16th and 19th centuries in wales and between the 11th and 19th centuries in scotland. Smith appeared to be the most dominant last name across the globe being the most common in english speaking nations such as the us canada england scotland new zealand and australia. Posted thursday 20 october 2016 15 30 by louis doré in offbeat.
7647 the surname is for many people an invention brought about by the telephone. He especially referred to wikipedia and forebears io for quick access data. Forebears io charts the worldwide prevalence of your surname and offers interesting stats on its distribution. These maps graphically display locations where surnames occurred at different periods in time.
Earlier in the year academics from university college london used geographical data from the consumer data research centre to build a website. These maps graphically display locations where surnames occurred at different periods in time. Map creator q1s2e3 used various sources online to generate the map. The telephone requires a person to identify his or herself and this can only realistically be done on a large scale basis by the use of a sur or add on name.
Though it is not possible to prove the origin of most surnames it is possible to make educated. Forebears is a website started in 2012 that s dedicated to mapping out mentions of some 11 million surnames and it ll allow you to further cull them from newspaper mentions genealogical. A world map of your surname s prevalence. Upvote voted upvote voted voted upvoted voted picture.
Map my surname familysearch sometimes it is possible to guess where an immigrant originated through surname distribution maps. Surname distribution maps sometimes it is possible to guess where a surname originated through surname distribution maps. Enter your last name and you 39 ll get back a world map with the countries where. Surnames only arose when families decided they were going to stick to a pseudo surname.
It is estimated that in the last years of the 20th century over three billion people on earth have a surname although this figure was much less than one billion in 1945. This change occurred at different periods in different regions. This website generated a heat map of the country based on the prevalence of your surname and it appeared to work pretty well. Follow us twitter facebook rss.