Surname Search Engines.

[Treffie]

Belgium - http://www.familienaam.be/

US - http://www.gens-us.net/

UK - http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/

Ireland - http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm

Finland - http://www.genealogia.fi/

Germany - http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen/en/Default.aspx

Netherlands - http://www.familienaam.nl/

France - http://www.geopatronyme.com/

Another one

http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Default.aspx

[Æmeric]

The World. (http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/) Or part of it.

[Treffie]

The World. (http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/) Or part of it.

Yep, it's the same as PublicProfiler.

[Æmeric]

Yeah, i noticed that after I posted. Did you add that while I was typing? Anyway I can't delete the post.:shrug: I could edit it but I can't delete it.

[Sol Invictus]

Desmarais - 69.22 (Frequency Per Million) Most common in North America suprisingly..

[Treffie]

Yeah, i noticed that after I posted. Did you add that while I was typing? Anyway I can't delete the post.:shrug: I could edit it but I can't delete it.

Don't worry, no harm done!:thumb001:

[Aemma]

The World. (http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/) Or part of it.


Oooo good one...I had some fun with this one on Skadi a little while back. I think it's a pretty darn good program to get some sense as to where one's name comes from. Good one Æmeric!

:thumb001:...Aemma

[Aemma]

Belgium - http://www.familienaam.be/

US - http://www.gens-us.net/

UK - http://www.nationaltrustnames.org.uk/

Ireland - http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm

Finland - http://www.genealogia.fi/

Germany - http://christoph.stoepel.net/geogen/en/Default.aspx

Netherlands - http://www.familienaam.nl/

France - http://www.geopatronyme.com/

Another one

http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Default.aspx

Awesome finds Sveyn...can't wait to start looking at these too. :) Thanks! :thumb001:

[HawkR]

Skogli 138,27 FPM in Norway, 0.33 in Demark and 0.01 in USA.

[Loyalist]

My surname...

Country - FPM

UNITED KINGDOM - 2239.59
AUSTRALIA - 2139.53
NEW-ZEALAND - 1713.07
UNITED STATES - 1023.69
CANADA - 818.09

:thumb001:

[Psychonaut]

Man, my surname isn't very common anywhere...

Country - FPM

France - 18.34
US - 12.39
Argentina - 0.12
UK - 0.07

[Aemma]

Man, my surname isn't very common anywhere...

Country - FPM

France - 18.34
US - 12.39
Argentina - 0.12
UK - 0.07


Have you tried variations of its spelling (if such exist)? :)

[Psychonaut]

Have you tried variations of its spelling (if such exist)? :)

Heh, yeah I tried that too. My surname isn't really French. It was originally a Spanish surname from the Canary Islands that was gallicized when the Canary Islanders went to Louisiana around 1760. Here's the stats for the original form

Spain - 0.1

And that's it! :)

[Gooding]

So my surname's more common in the U.K. and Down Under than in the U.S..I'm actually fairly surprised...


Country FPM
UNITED KINGDOM 81.52
AUSTRALIA 62.26
NEW-ZEALAND 42.32
UNITED STATES 27.43
CANADA 10.31

[Æmeric]

Heh, yeah I tried that too. My surname isn't really French. It was originally a Spanish surname from the Canary Islands that was gallicized when the Canary Islanders went to Louisiana around 1760. Here's the stats for the original form

Spain - 0.1

And that's it! :)

You know what? You're Hispanic.:costumed-smiley-007

[Vulpix]

Country / FPM
SWEDEN 2348.5
DENMARK 102.12
NORWAY 82.85
LUXEMBOURG 8.5
CANADA 4.81

[Psychonaut]

You know what? You're Hispanic.:costumed-smiley-007

Oh noes!!! Now I need to go buy a sombrero and join a Mariachi band!!! :D

Actually though, my paternal line is R1a1, sooooo, I'm still Hella confused about how it ended up in Spain. My surname transformed from what it currently is into a Spanish form, then in about 1500 transforms into an entirely different and unrelated Spanish/Italian surname: Lorenzo. :confused:

[Æmeric]

The adventurer who conquered the Canaries for Castile was a Norman named Bettencourt/Béthencourt. Maybe he brought some other Frenchmen or other Northern European mercenaries with him into the Canaries. Btw, do you know which Y haplogroup was common among the Gaunches?

[Psychonaut]

The adventurer who conquered the Canaries for Castile was a Norman named Bettencourt/Béthencourt. Maybe he brought some other Frenchmen or other Northern European mercenaries with him into the Canaries. Btw, do you know which Y haplogroup was common among the Gaunches?

Yeah, since my only two DNA matches that aren't in Louisiana are in Poland and Sweden, I'm thinking that it may be a Norman line. However, there was a small population of Slavic mercenaries that entered Spain during the Moorish period, so it's equally plausible that my paternal ancestor could've been a Slav. The Guanches DNA group that I belong to shows the Canary Islands to be pretty similar to Spain, genetically, making it quite difficult to determine if the Guanches are of R1b or E1b stock.

[Jägerstaffel]

NEW-ZEALAND 2265.4
AUSTRALIA 2207.23
UNITED KINGDOM 1559.09
UNITED STATES 1158.55
CANADA 599.41

No surprise there. Good ol' Anglo surname.

[Gooding]

It was mildly surprising because I really didn't think of my surname as being common anywhere, but it's always nice to learn something new..

[Jamt]

Minnesota, Washington and California.

California is a surprise. Is this part of the migration within the US after ww2? I guess Swedes from the Mid-West went to California.

[Æmeric]

A lot of people went out to California after WWII. I remember when I was a child, California was still the land at the end of the rainbow. Not Euro-Americans are abandoning the state.

[Brynhild]

My maiden surname:

Australia - 245.16
France - 19.97
UK - 8.74
Canada - 2.75
USA - 2.57

Not hard to estimate where the majority of them migrated to after WWII :D

[Treffie]

My grandmother's surname

Skym

Top Countries
Country FPM
UNITED KINGDOM 1.2
UNITED STATES 0.48

[stormlord]

UK FPM= 0.04

My name's South African, so I assume they have no data for South Africa and that the only data they have is me and my immediate family in the UK. As far as it's concerned my family are the only people in the world with that surname :eek:

[Osweo]

Quite surprising that there are so many left in the Old Country, you wouldn't think so from the Nineteenth Century records, such as they are, and the general unfamiliarity of the name;

frequency per million

ROI 48.34
UK 7.16
USA 3.91
Can 3.44
NZ 1.76
Norway 0.28

Noorway - WTF?!? That's quite high an FPM too! What on Earth are we doing there?!? In Hordaland...
None in Australia, oddly enough.
All over the USA, except the northwest, contigous areas of distribution in Dixie and New England. There's a Ridge named after us in the Ozarks! :p Might have a look one day!
Other New Worlders in Alberta, most in Quebec. Vaudreuil-Soulange, la Riviere du Nord, le Bas-Richelieu, Rousillon and the suburbs of Montreal.

More in Newcastle Upon Tyne than in Manchester, grumble...

[Spillip]

Country FPM

UNITED KINGDOM 2966.4
AUSTRALIA 2709.85
NEW-ZEALAND 2324.31
UNITED STATES 1752.53
IRELAND 731.64


My name's solidly English, but most Americans with it are black :eek:

Another site for British and American names is this: http://www.ancestry.com/facts/smith-family-history-uk.ashx

Smith isn't my name, btw. Just enter your name at the top and you'll find the county by county distribution of your name in 1890 (minimizing the effects of internal migration).

[Æmeric]

Quite surprising that there are so many left in the Old Country, you wouldn't think so from the Nineteenth Century records, such as they are, and the general unfamiliarity of the name;

frequency per million

ROI 48.34
UK 7.16
USA 3.91
Can 3.44
NZ 1.76
Norway 0.28

Noorway - WTF?!? That's quite high an FPM too! What on Earth are we doing there?!? In Hordaland... Norway has a population of 4.8 million so 4.8 x .28 = approximate 1 person. Probably from Eire or the UK working in the oil industry.




All over the USA, except the northwest, contigous areas of distribution in Dixie and New England. There's a Ridge named after us in the Ozarks! :p Might have a look one day!

There's a whole county named after my family in the Ozarks.:cool:

[Vargtand]

Wallin

SWEDEN 1437.16
NORWAY 72.1
DENMARK 51.38
UNITED STATES 32.03
CANADA 26.13
AUSTRALIA 25.89
UNITED KINGDOM 7.71
NEW-ZEALAND 2.12
SPAIN 1.78
AUSTRIA 1.59

[Silverfern]

ITALY 886.74 :thumb001:
SWITZERLAND 213.4
ARGENTINA 208.35
AUSTRALIA 78.31
UNITED STATES 72.69
BELGIUM 54.31
FRANCE 45.27
GERMANY 15.28
NEW-ZEALAND 10.93
UNITED KINGDOM 7.36

[Beorn]

AUSTRALIA (http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Default.aspx?country_code=AU) 2422.62 - Highest in Tasmania (5022.36)

NEW-ZEALAND (http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Default.aspx?country_code=NZ) 2394.85 - Highest in Matamata-Piako District (4561.15)

UNITED KINGDOM (http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Default.aspx?country_code=GB) 2389.4 - Highest in Scotland (4719.94)

UNITED STATES (http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Default.aspx?country_code=US)2199.87 - Highest in Maine.

CANADA (http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Default.aspx?country_code=CA) 1572.23 - Highest in New Brunswick (4147.73)


Highest in UK cities: Glasgow, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Aberdeen, Bristol and Edinburgh.

[Bridie]

I'm going to resurrect this old thread because I think it's interesting. :p


Top Countries
Country FPM
UNITED KINGDOM 24.55 - Highest in the South West.
AUSTRALIA 16.18 - Highest in the Northern Territory.
NEW-ZEALAND 14.81 - Highest in Whangarei District
UNITED STATES 3.56 - Highest in Wyoming
CANADA 0.92 - Only present in Nova Scotia and Manitoba.




EDIT - didn't notice the top cities before :

Top Cities
City
BRISTOL , SOUTH WEST , UNITED KINGDOM
TORQUAY , SOUTH WEST , UNITED KINGDOM
EXETER , SOUTH WEST , UNITED KINGDOM
NEWTON ABBOT , SOUTH WEST , UNITED KINGDOM
PLYMOUTH , SOUTH WEST , UNITED KINGDOM
UNKNOWN , WALES , UNITED KINGDOM
MANCHESTER , NORTH WEST , UNITED KINGDOM
OXFORD , SOUTH EAST , UNITED KINGDOM
READING , SOUTH EAST , UNITED KINGDOM
BOURNEMOUTH , SOUTH WEST , UNITED KINGDOM

:)

[Bloodeagle]

Top Countries
Country FPM
UNITED STATES 13.71 Highest in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
UNITED KINGDOM 1.27 Highest in East Anglia
NORWAY 0.28 Highest in Vesfold

[Peasant]

Being the juvenile minded person I am, I found this out:

http://i.imgur.com/caFBv.jpg

WEST MIDLANDS , UNITED KINGDOM 0.24
SOUTH EAST , UNITED KINGDOM 0




Oh and...

http://i.imgur.com/WuQ3G.jpg

[Foxy]

The World. (http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/) Or part of it.

According to this, my surname diffusion:
TOP COUNTRIES:
Italy, Argentina, Luxembourg, United States (Michigan), Switzerland.

TOP CITIES:
Neaples, Rome, Milan, Turin.

ETHNIC GROUP:
Western Europeans, Italians :D

[Nglund]

Why did they include "Cornish" in the "Anglo-Saxon" group? :confused:

[Pallantides]

My surname
http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/2386/surname.png

Top Countries
Country FPM
NORWAY 3305.79
NETHERLANDS 279.2
AUSTRIA 212.5
GERMANY 201.81
SWITZERLAND 189.12

Top Regions
Area Name FPM
OPPLAND , NORWAY 8041.27
HEDMARK , NORWAY 7591.79
BUSKERUD , NORWAY 5307.33
AKERSHUS , NORWAY 4392.78
TELEMARK , NORWAY 4173.09

Top Cities
City
OSLO , OSLO , NORWAY
LUSTENAU , DORNBIRN , AUSTRIA
BERLIN , BERLIN , GERMANY
HAMBURG , HAMBURG , GERMANY
DRAMMEN , BUSKERUD , NORWAY

[Mikula]

Czech Republic (http://www.kdejsme.cz/)

[Oneeye]

Here is the distribution of my Surname...

http://i1065.photobucket.com/albums/u399/hammer1115/rootsofsurname_zpsada68d1e.png (http://s1065.photobucket.com/user/hammer1115/media/rootsofsurname_zpsada68d1e.png.html)


http://i1065.photobucket.com/albums/u399/hammer1115/USAmaprootsofsurname_zpse358e255.png (http://s1065.photobucket.com/user/hammer1115/media/USAmaprootsofsurname_zpse358e255.png.html)


Because my surname's spelling was changed about 200 years ago, there are no old worlders who share it. However, here are the results for how my surname used to be spelled:

http://i1065.photobucket.com/albums/u399/hammer1115/Rootsofthisname_zpsba7d222b.png (http://s1065.photobucket.com/user/hammer1115/media/Rootsofthisname_zpsba7d222b.png.html)

http://i1065.photobucket.com/albums/u399/hammer1115/Euromaprootsofname_zps9dd61284.png (http://s1065.photobucket.com/user/hammer1115/media/Euromaprootsofname_zps9dd61284.png.html)

[Jonik]

Search your last name in Poland (if applicable) (map):
http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/

[Rædwald]

Top Regions

Area Name FPM

BASSE-NORMANDIE , FRANCE 189.47
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES , CANADA 110.33
LIMOUSIN , FRANCE 84.37
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR , CANADA 47.64
HAUTE-NORMANDIE , FRANCE 18.56

Top Countries

Country FPM

FRANCE 11.59
CANADA 5.27

[Seraph of the End]

Group: European_Other Eastern
Subgroup: South Slavic

Countries:
Sweden 18.96
Austria 10.32
Denmark 3.9
Switzerland 1.92
Norway 1.41
Germany 1.23
Netherlands 0.64
Serbia 0.59

Top cities:
Nottingham , East Midlands , United Kingdom
Munchen , Bayern , Germany
Pforzheim , Baden-Wurttemberg , Germany
Schopfheim , Baden-Wurttemberg , Germany
Tauberbischofsheim , Baden-Wurttemberg , Germany

Top Forenames:
Stevan
Richard
Dijana
Miroslav
Sejad
Mustafa
Biljana
Emile
Dusan
Vladan

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[joanna_38]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/645941754729594892/680741436152610875/SURNAME_2.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/645941754729594892/680741439310659616/SURNAME_NO.1.png

Both surnames from my dad's side of the family. & its pretty accurate because my grandparents lived in those areas.


The website i used: https://apps.vrisko.gr/apo-pou-krataei-i-skoufia-sou/

[Daco Celtic]

This one has a lot of surnames

https://forebears.io/