Hakomi Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 Check where your relatives are living around the world My surname stichbury is mostly concentrated in NZ with a few in canada ireland and england Check this out its dope you can even find ouy which area of nz has the highest concentration. http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames Website pinpoints where in the world your name isBy Michael McCarthy A new website shows where in the world other people with your name are. It is a question that not even Google can answer: where in the world are all the other people with my name? It sounds impossible, but it can now be answered thanks to a remarkable new website launched yesterday, which enables the names of most people in the English-speaking world, and a sizeable chunk of the rest of it, to be tracked to the places they live. Set up by geographers at University College London (UCL), the site, publicprofiler.org/worldnames, will provide a remarkable tool for tracing family history and also a powerful aid for governments to keep track of intra-national and international migrations. The database behind the site holds 300 million names of people in 26 countries, representing a population of about a billion, or nearly a sixth of the world. It contains 10.8 million individual surnames and 6.5 million forenames, and can pick out which of the latter are most closely associated with the former. Advertisement Advertisement It covers most of Europe and the Anglophone countries, as well as Japan, India and Argentina, although much of the rest of the globe, including Africa, is so far untouched. The site, launched at the annual conference in London of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers, shows in particular how Anglo-Saxon and Celtic names have spread over the globe with the English-speaking diaspora, with the result that they are sometimes more frequent in the former colonies than they are in the country of origin. For example, the British Prime Minister might be interested to know the commonest country for Brown is Australia, by a slight margin over Britain, although the commonest region (as the site defines it) is Scotland, where it belongs to nearly one in a hundred people. The commonest forenames associated with Brown are Robert, James, David, John and William. His predecessor might like to learn that the country where the surname Blair is commonest is New Zealand - well ahead of Australia, then the US, then Canada before Britain - with New Zealand's Gisborne region being the locality where the name is most frequently found. John, Kevin, Robert, David and William are commonest forenames that go with it. Typing in my own name, I found that McCarthy is most commonly found in Ireland, and within Ireland, in the south-west. Nothing new there. The surprise was that the city given as the site of its greatest frequency is Barry, Glamorgan, south Wales, whereas I know for a fact that there are so many McCarthys in Cork City that if you put a message out on Radio Cork saying "Would Mr McCarthy return to collect the tombola prize he has won in O'Connor's Lounge," the Irish Army would have to be turned out to disperse the crowds. Pretty cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Known One Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 that's dope I reckon that Rumble Entrants should be able to enter again if they come second though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave dub Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 haha nice. search "lee" (as in the chinese surname).. apparently there are barely any in asia and most are in aussie - thats gotta be wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave dub Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 that's dope I reckon that Rumble Entrants should be able to enter again if they come second though. wrong thread cuz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hakomi Posted October 2, 2008 Author Share Posted October 2, 2008 (edited) haha nice.search "lee" (as in the chinese surname).. apparently there are barely any in asia and most are in aussie - thats gotta be wrong It seaches on a per capita scale so there will be more lee's per million people here in NZ and Aussie as apposed to Asia Plus it pobably only searches contries with accurate census info as well Edited October 2, 2008 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hakomi Posted October 2, 2008 Author Share Posted October 2, 2008 that's dope I reckon that Rumble Entrants should be able to enter again if they come second though. Rumble is for losers bro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike Posted October 2, 2008 Share Posted October 2, 2008 that's dope I reckon that Rumble Entrants should be able to enter again if they come second though. Rumble is for losers bro If you got kicked out in the first round like we did it is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hakomi Posted October 2, 2008 Author Share Posted October 2, 2008 that's dope I reckon that Rumble Entrants should be able to enter again if they come second though. Rumble is for losers bro If you got kicked out in the first round like we did it is Indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thr339z Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Interesting site! apprently hitler either lives in india the USA or england also Farker and Menial are not very popular names with about two or three people with that last name in the world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeb Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 i just typed in every swear word i could think of.....fantastic results.... sadly no beyotches in the world though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joachim Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 sadly no beyotches in the world though If I have a massive falling out with my family this is the new last name I'm going with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagermikester Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 yeah pretty interesting, how do they get their hands on all that data? My surname has high concentration in NZ but the only ones I know of are close relations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 More of my family supposibly in Otago than anywhere else - And i've never been there lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeb Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 sadly no beyotches in the world though If I have a massive falling out with my family this is the new last name I'm going with. you'd think there would be at least one huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merge Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 theres hardly any 'whiteacre's in the world, but there seems to be a few in alaska of all places... and nz.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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