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FIBSBoard general => Pictures & Links => Topic started by: moonshadow on March 09, 2011, 02:36:33 AM

Title: World Family Names--Check out your surname and find out where you are scattered
Post by: moonshadow on March 09, 2011, 02:36:33 AM
The link:

http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/ (http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org/)

I found this to be quite fascinating. For example, a common surname like "Smith" is found 9000 times per 1 million people in the US, 12,254 per 1 million in Australia.

I'm in the US and my surname is not very common-- 17 FPM (Frequency Per Million)

All those in the US with my surname came from a single family that immigrated to the US from the UK in the 1800's, where the FPM is 13.

So what's your FPM?
Title: Re: World Family Names--Check out your surname and find out where you are scattered
Post by: diane on March 09, 2011, 03:05:43 AM
That was interesting!! I have always thought I have a VERY unusual surname...but seems that the biggest take away from this...is that I am English through and through!!

Country               FPM
UNITED KINGDOM      26.78
CANADA               4.13
NEW-ZEALAND       2.12
UNITED STATES       1.47
IRELAND               0.69

That is kinda strange, because searches I have done before have suggested it is an Irish name in origin!

OnoMAP classifies me as English, based on my name...and there is a very low FPM presence of my name in Russia, some parts of Europe and Australia. I wonder how the FPM changed by my migration to Australia  ;)
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