Map your surname

[rugby bloke]

Pretty good for me - South Yorkshire, although the hottest spot is slightly further west in North Derbyshire and over the border in the godless wastes of the red rose. Very interesting results for my wife - her family are from Leicestershire, which has a significant population but the biggest density is in Dorset.

 

[velovoice]

West Country - yes
But it shows the real hotspot as Dumfries & Galloway which is utter and complete tosh. My family spent a lot of time researching the origins of our surname, which in its current iteration is an American invention, but dates back a man in the area of what is now the village of Flixton in N. Yorks being granted the name by William the Conqueror in recognition of loyal service. Whether that man was local/native or a Norman granted lands there (as well as the name) is not known. But we have no Scottish history whatsoever and the name as far as we have been able to determine (phone directories etc) simply does not exist in Scotland. So phhhtt to that!

 

[Sharky]

Blimey, just learned that my wife's ancestors (Evans) come from Wales!

 

[ianrauk]

Wales and Nottingham which is pretty much spot on.

 

[numbnuts]

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Fark.....it says I'm @Mad Doug Biker's next door neighbour

We have a couple of 60/70something sisters next door, so what one are you??

 

[Doseone]

I looked up my Grandfathers surname which is quite unusual and the site pinpointed correctly where he was from (Dumfries).

Very impressed!

 

[Globalti]

That site led me to this, which is fascinating. Look at the band of Cosmopolitans on the south side of Manchester:

http://maps.cdrc.ac.uk/#/geodemographics/oac11/default/BTTTFTT/12/-2.2436/53.4764/

 

[swee'pea99]

Interesting. I'd been told many years ago that my family name came from Motherwell or thereabouts, but it turns out the real hotspot is north-east of Glasgow, rather than south-east. Still, pretty close. And far enough from the highlands to suggest that my father's family left Scotand for NZ by choice, rather than being kicked off the land in the clearances. (Not, needless to say, that they may have had a great deal of choice even so.)

 

[Starchivore]

That is interesting. My dad's side are from one of the "hot spots" shown but Birmingham really has the big concentration of people with my name apparently.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

All I saw when I entered my surname into that page was a UK country shape filled with "No data". Not surprising, as it's a rare name outside the Netherlands and Germany.

 

[gbb]

My surname is not common in UK, it comes from Scandinavia.

There is one hotspot in UK which is the Whitby area. Presumably the first landfall from invaders, raping and pillaging

Bloomin Vikings, coming over here....

 

[Levo-Lon]

My surname is not common in UK, it comes from Scandinavia.

There is one hotspot in UK which is the Whitby area. Presumably the first landfall from invaders, raping and pillaging

vampire!!

 

[the_mikey]

Noooo....

 

[welsh dragon]

No data for my mother's side, but then again southern Ireland isn't in the UK. Married surname is most prevalent in mid and west Wales which is where I live, although I only moved here 15 years ago. However it isn't or wasn't originally a British name at all.