Man, my surname isn't very common anywhere...
Country - FPM
France - 18.34
US - 12.39
Argentina - 0.12
UK - 0.07
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Man, my surname isn't very common anywhere...
Country - FPM
France - 18.34
US - 12.39
Argentina - 0.12
UK - 0.07
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
Country / FPM
SWEDEN 2348.5
DENMARK 102.12
NORWAY 82.85
LUXEMBOURG 8.5
CANADA 4.81
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:
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.
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.