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.
- United Kingdom (alternative)
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- France (alternative 1, alternative 2)
- Germany (alternative)
- Poland
- Austria
- Switzerland
- Italy (alternative)
- Spain
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.