The Press Association: Global surname website launched
People interested in their family history can now find where their relatives have spread around the world by using a public website which maps surnames.
A team of geographers from University College, London, have used data from electoral rolls and telephone directories to map the distribution of 10.8 million different last names.
The information, which covers a billion people in 26 countries, shows amateur researchers just where different names originated and where families have scattered around the world through migration.
The online maps also have information on which of 6.5 million first names are most closely associated with different surnames and lists the top regions and cities for the presence of each last name.
The name tracer can be found at publicprofiler.org/worldnames
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