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    Look like my surname is very common in Poland.

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    My last name



    I've noticed an error on the site, flemish names are classified as french.


    Paternal grandmother's last name

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    Mother's last name

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    Maternal grandmother's last name

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    Wtf is this website http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/Main.aspx ?

    The roots of the names are massively wrong, I've put some distant last names :

    French name who become english
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    Dutch name who become french
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    French name who become muslim
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    And it's only examples, the majority of names are badly classified.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Itarildė View Post
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    First and last look Northern & second is maybe Irish?

    You should look at this with your surnames. It gives a good breakdown if you click on England or Ireland. Also gives 2014 scores only for nations though.

    http://forebears.io/surnames/finlay

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    Quote Originally Posted by Graham View Post
    First and last look Northern & second is maybe Irish?

    You should look at this with your surnames. It gives a good breakdown if you click on England or Ireland. Also gives 2014 scores only for nations though.

    http://forebears.io/surnames/finlay
    They're all Northern English surnames with one of them being an English/Scottish name. Just there is a random high incidence of one of the surnames in Tipperary which I find quite odd haha.

    Thanks for the link to the other site!

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    It says my surname is most common in (region) Asturias, Spain (fonseca). It's also common in Portugal but it's not listed

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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnnyB View Post
    It says my surname is most common in (region) Asturias, Spain (fonseca). It's also common in Portugal but it's not listed
    Check the site that Graham posted .

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