Distribution maps of European surnames by country

Joey D said:
I was looking at the top 10 Italian cognomi and was suprised to find this name quite high: Puddu. I've never seen this name before, all the others looked like very common Italian names.

Does anyone else know whether Puddu is or isn't a common Italian surname?
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Puddu is a Sardinian origin name.

When the question of surnames comes up I normally first check the compendium put together by the University of Genova which is based on the Italian white pages. The downside is that it doesn't tell you origin and you will often find "southern" surnames, for example, scattered throughout the north because of recent migration, as in this case. Usually, however, you can still see by the concentrations where the name probably originated.

http://www.gens.info/italia/it/turi...ni-italia?cognome=Puddu&x=32&y=9#.WEGZT_krKyI

The cognomix site purports to tell you the origin of Italian surnames, and it does have an entry for Puddu (which means gallina), but it doesn't list all surnames. (This is the site referenced by Maciamo.)
http://www.cognomix.it/origine-cognome/puddu.php

There used to be a wonderful Italian site that listed virtually every variation of every surname and gave historical references, but at one point it just was unavailable. I don't know what happened. So, now I go to the original and much harder to use text. If you happen to take a look at it I'd be interested to know what you think of the treatment of the specifically Sicilian names.

https://archive.org/stream/OrigineE...rigine e storia dei cognomi italiani_djvu.txt

This is another site I use for location information:
http://www.mappadeicognomi.it/

Just for curiosity, what site told you that Puddu was in the top ten of Italian surnames? From the information I saw, it isn't even one of the top ten names in Sardegna.

This is the Cognomix list of the top 100 names for comparison:
http://www.cognomix.it/top100_cognomi_italia.php
 
Angela said:
When the question of surnames comes up I normally first check the compendium put together by the University of Genova which is based on the Italian white pages. The downside is that it doesn't tell you origin and you will often find "southern" surnames, for example, scattered throughout the north because of recent migration, as in this case. Usually, however, you can still see by the concentrations where the name probably originated.

http://www.gens.info/italia/it/turi...ni-italia?cognome=Puddu&x=32&y=9#.WEGZT_krKyI
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This link is interesting. My grandfather came from Frosinone in Lazio, but my AncestryDNA matches on his line are heavily in L'Aquila which is northeast of Frosinone. So, when I checked this link, his surname, Capanna, is common in L'Aquila, but not Frosinone. (He really came from there, we know the relatives.)
 
Eochaidh said:
This link is interesting. My grandfather came from Frosinone in Lazio, but my AncestryDNA matches on his line are heavily in L'Aquila which is northeast of Frosinone. So, when I checked this link, his surname, Capanna, is common in L'Aquila, but not Frosinone. (He really came from there, we know the relatives.)
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Eochaidh, this is what the site on the origin of Italian surnames says about "Capanna".

"Capanna ha un piccolo ceppo tra riminese e pesarese, uno a Genova, uno a Livorno, ma il ceppo più consistente è a Roma e nel romano con buone presenze anche nell'aquilano, nel teramano, nel'ascolano e nel reatino"."

Capanna has a small branch between Rimini and Pesaro, one at Genova, one at Livorno, but the most sizable branch is in Rome and the Romano, with a good presence also around L'Aquila, Teramo, Ascoli, and Rieti.

It seems from this that the name is wide spread all around Rome and the Abruzzi.
http://www.mappadeicognomi.it/index.php?sur=Capanna&s=Genera


For all we know, the historical spread might have been from Rome into the Abruzzi.

There are variations of the name all over Italy, for which the author has some interesting citations from historical documents.

There's no conflict, really, with your ancestors from Frosinone bearing that name. There was some moving around of people within their own political unit or neighboring ones. As for your matches actually coming more from L'Aquila, it might mean that your particular branch moved from Aquila to Frosinone, or it might be a function of which people bearing your family name went to the U.S. and wound up getting tested.

The only way to really know would be to trace that line.
 
Angela said:
Puddu is a Sardinian origin name.

Just for curiosity, what site told you that Puddu was in the top ten of Italian surnames? From the information I saw, it isn't even one of the top ten names in Sardegna.

This is the Cognomix list of the top 100 names for comparison:
http://www.cognomix.it/top100_cognomi_italia.php
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I followed the link above in Maciamo's first post - Puddu is currently showing up as the 4th most common surname in Italy.
 
Joey D said:
I followed the link above in Maciamo's first post - Puddu is currently showing up as the 4th most common surname in Italy.
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If you go back to that link I think you'll see that it's fourth on the list of most "requested" names, not fourth on the list of most "common" names.

"[h=3]I più richiesti[/h]1. Rossi2. Berlusconi3. Ferrari4. Puddu5. Esposito6. Russo7. Colombo8. Brambilla9. Greco10. Ricci




[h=3]I più diffusi in Italia[/h]1. Rossi2. Russo3. Ferrari4. Esposito5. Bianchi6. Romano7. Colombo8. Ricci9. Marino10. Greco
 
Maciamo said:
Have you ever wondered where your family name was most common or if it existed in other countries ? You can check it on various websites that compute distribution maps for any surname (usually based on telephone registers).


France's Geopatronyme and the UK's public profiler are the only site that provide historical data (going back to 1881 for the UK and 1891 for France), although Geopatronyme has the advantage of having four distinct periods instead of two (so that you can see the evolution in distribution across generations).

Germany's Geogen is the only one that calculates relative distribution (as a percentage of the population) in addition to the absolute figures.

The Dutch and Belgian sites have the finest scale, giving distributions at the municipal level (instead of province/county/département level for other sites).

There seem to be frequent server problems with Verwandt, the site powering the maps for Austria, Switzerland and Spain.
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How about Luxembourg?
 
Our last names all come from Bari. My grandmother on my mother's side has a last name that is very popular in much of Italy, and is found mostly in Lazio. Nevertheless, it is very substantial in Bari as well.

My last name:
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My mom's maiden name:
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My grandmother on my father's side's last name:
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My grandmother on my mother's side's last name:
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Jovialis said:
Our last names all come from Bari. My grandmother on my mother's side has a last name that is very popular in much of Italy, and is found mostly in Lazio. Nevertheless, it is very substantial in Bari as well.

My last name:
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My mom's maiden name:
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My grandmother on my father's side's last name:
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My grandmother on my mother's side's last name:
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In case you didn’t try this one:
http://www.cognomix.it/mappe-dei-cognomi-italiani/ROSSI/PUGLIA/BARI

It goes in details by Numbers from
Italy, to Regions, to Provinces, to Towns.

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