I found a very interesting tool to play with, Public Profiler’s World names, it allows you to put in your surname and it tells you where in the world the most people with you surname live. Worth noting though that they don’t seem to have datasets for Africa, central and south America (not including Argentina) and the majority of Asia, interesting all the same.
Unsurprisingly Ireland came out on top in the regions department but the top country was Australia!:
Surname: BYRNES
Group: CELTIC
Subgroup: IRISH
Language: ENGLISH
Top Country – FPM (Frequency per Million)
AUSTRALIA
314.28
IRELAND
269.14
UNITED STATES
49.77
NEW ZEALAND
43.99
CANADA
25.9
Top Regions – FPM
MID WEST , IRELAND
1593.33
NEW SOUTH WALES , AUSTRALIA
567.29
NORTHERN TERRITORY , AUSTRALIA
399.81
QUEENSLAND , AUSTRALIA
328.65
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY , AUSTRALIA
284.13
Top Cities
BARNSLEY , YORKSHIRE AND HUMBERSIDE , UNITED KINGDOM
BOSTON , MASSACHUSETTS , UNITED STATES
BAGILLT & FLINT , NORTH WEST , UNITED KINGDOM
ARLINGTON , VIRGINIA , UNITED STATES
BRICK , NEW JERSEY , UNITED STATES
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1 Laura Anne // Oct 1, 2008 at 11:42 pm
I like the new heading thingy (ahh…technical terms!) it’s very Juno.
I did this, and the top country was New Zealand. Weird. However, the top region was unsurprisingly Scotland….so the world is still all making sense after all.