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[Duckelf]

My surname is most common throughout Scotland, in Northern Ireland and in the North East of England. Outside of the British Isles, it is reasonably common in the US, Canada and Australia, and very common in New Zealand for some reason. I guess a larger number of people of their must have Scottish blood. The exact locations in Britain where my name is my most common are the Scottish Borders (likely because of Clan Scott, a border reiver clan), Perthshire and Northumberland.

My mother's maiden name is also really only a English name, really found only in Britain or in ex-British colonies. In Britain it is common in the South of England, particularly in counties by the Welsh border, which also happens to be the area where my mother is from.

[Mechanolater]

Arise, thread! Thought it was neat, tried it out. Have two surnames (I know, fancy) and I tried 'em both.

My results for Earhart.


And my results for de ***********************. The second part of this surname isn't "Blank," by the way. You know, just in case.

[Bobcat Fraser]

This demonstrates how anglicized names can change so much. The American version of my name showed varied parts of Appalachia, one of them being my birthplace. The Irish version was found mostly in the northwest and west regions of Eire. See what census-takers can do when they misspell names?

[Damião de Góis]

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Surname 3



This doesn't tell me anything. It just shows how common my surnames are among portuguese emigrants. On the other hand it tells me that my surnames are portuguese-galician.

[Methmatician]

http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org...=!WORLD-EUROPE

[Ozzy]

http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org...=!WORLD-EUROPE

My surname is, from what I've gathered, an Americanized-Norwegian surname. There's only a single letter difference, to be honest, and if I had typed in it's original form, Norway would just be dark blue.

http://nowpic.com/?photo=2012-08/9ed3c0e9

[Mechanolater]

This demonstrates how anglicized names can change so much. The American version of my name showed varied parts of Appalachia, one of them being my birthplace. The Irish version was found mostly in the northwest and west regions of Eire. See what census-takers can do when they misspell names?

Same sit'ation, here. "Earhart" almost doesn't exist in Germany, and is found primarily in states close to where my grandfather was born. I believe it was something like "Ehrhardt" before it was anglicized. I punched that in, and there you go, the stats go from being U.S. centric to Germany centric.

[Pretan]

Name 1:



Celtic, Scottish, Most common in Scotland and New Zealand.

Name 2:



European other western, English, Most common in the South and East of England as well as Australia.

[Behemot]

I does not have any data with original form ( letter "DŽ")
And in western alphabet Norway,Denmark,Austria,New Zelan,Serbia...( B&H diaspora )
my own country not listed ( no data I think )

[Corvus]

I tried it with my own name. And this map does not include Czech Republic and Slovakia.
So it is not very accurate