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Do you have a British name?
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MR_MAGOO | Report | 1 Mar 2016 20:05 |
Site claims to guess where your family originates - and it reveals how common your name is. |
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Island | Report | 1 Mar 2016 20:12 |
Not working :-S |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 1 Mar 2016 21:24 |
Try http://named.publicprofiler.org/ which was linked from the article. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 1 Mar 2016 22:29 |
not working here either |
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Island | Report | 1 Mar 2016 22:39 |
'No data' :-0 |
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Tawny | Report | 1 Mar 2016 22:47 |
Totally out for my family name. Apparently it is most prevalent in an area in the North of England. |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 1 Mar 2016 23:28 |
Way out - said northern Ireland - it is manx and actually traced back to Viking settler. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 2 Mar 2016 00:30 |
That was interesting - I put in my maiden name. According to this, mostly from Cornwall. A few in Dorset, Sussex and Hampshire. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 2 Mar 2016 00:52 |
It worked....... sort of....... my maiden name .... the Lothians. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 2 Mar 2016 00:55 |
DH's surname........ about 3/4 of England covered, with a big red blob over Cornwall...... that's where DH's great-grandfather was born, he emigrated to Oz. |
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Guinevere | Report | 2 Mar 2016 07:26 |
Very poor for my maiden name. |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 2 Mar 2016 08:07 |
My maiden name and other family names are very common so there wasn't much to learn there but I put in great grandpa's name which is uncommon. It showed a very high incidence of the name in Wales with a small cluster right in the North East of England. Odd. In all my years of researching all sorts of records I have never come across the name in these areas. They are mostly around London (my family), with another grouping in Sussex and just a few a Devon. |
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LadyScozz | Report | 2 Mar 2016 08:53 |
My Mother's maiden name......... mostly in Aberdeen! |
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Inky1 | Report | 2 Mar 2016 11:11 |
The initial link worked. The heat map shows my name as primarily in the north east & north west, which is correct. |
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Linda | Report | 2 Mar 2016 12:42 |
I've got a very common maiden name but they where spot on we did come from Berkshire but gg grandad moved to Ealing and that's were most of the Wells's were born. My married name was way out though. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 2 Mar 2016 12:51 |
not working for me - put in maiden name, married name, maternal line and paternal line - no answer :-( |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 3 Mar 2016 07:15 |
No data for mine but then my paternal grandfather was German |
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Iris | Report | 5 Mar 2016 13:02 |
all I got was . no data ,for the name mackellow . for hubbys name green , they were everywhere ,but mostly in the midlands . |
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wisechild | Report | 5 Mar 2016 13:59 |
Interesting. |
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KittytheLearnerCook | Report | 5 Mar 2016 16:25 |
Spot on for my maiden name......easier to research when I was born and raised in the very same county :-D |