Family Names

[poliphilo]

Here's a site (belonging to University College London) that documents the geographical spread of family names in the U.K. The Guardian drew my attention to it. Not surprisingly it's getting a lot of hits at the moment.  

If you have an English/British family name, this site will pinpoint where in the UK people with that name  were concentrated in the sample years of 1882 and 1998 and so- by deduction- where the name originates.

My family name turns out to be West Country. More specifically from the area round Bath. 

Ailz's family name- no surprises here- is deep Lancashire.

Comments

[forestdweller.livejournal.com]

Amazing coincidence, methinks. The fact that both of their families emigrated to the states somewhat recently and they were living one town apart in Maine which has a traditionally high concentration of Scottish and Irish immigrants kind of narrows the coincidence factor a touch, though.